 Kinheim, Pioniers finally open their season
Nederlands
    HAARLEM / THE HAGUE / ROTTERDAM / BUSSUM (Neth.) -
After a cancellation by fog on Thursday and a cancellation by rain on Friday, Corendon Kinheim and Vaessen Pioniers finally opened their new season on Saturday.
Reigning champion Kinheim trailed 9-6 in the sixth inning, but then turned the game around and defeated Pioniers, 16-9.
ADO Lakers surprised with a 3-1 win vs. L&D Amsterdam Pirates, which had opened with a big win on Thursday.
DOOR Neptunus again won big vs. Mampaey The Hawks, 16-5, while UVV won its second game against Mr. Cocker HCAW, 4-3.
Corendon Kinheim vs. Vaessen Pioniers
At Haarlem, Corendon Kinheim trailed 9-6, but then scored 10 runs in three innings to win 16-9 on 16 basehits, including three by René Cremer, Mervin Gario and Roy Seltenrijch.
Pioniers collected 14 hits, including three by Vince Rooi and Mark-Jan Moorman.
Trailing 1-0, Kinheim scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning, highlighted by a 3-run triple by Quintin De Cuba.
After two scoreless innings, both teams scored once on the fourth at bat.
In the fifth, Pioniers added two runs on a single by Rooi and sac-fly by Dè Flanegin.
A homerun by Remco Draijer in the bottom of the fifth made it a 6-4 score.
Trailing 6-4 and after a pitching change, Pioniers rallied for five runs in the top of the sixth inning to take 9-6 lead.
With one out and the bases loaded, a single by Vince Rooi and sac-fly by Phil Ortez tied the score, then a single by Mark-Jan Moorman gave Pioniers the lead.
After Pim Walsma was brought in as new pitcher, a single by Dè Flanegin and sac-fly by Kevin Dirksen then made it 9-6.
But in the home of the sixth, Kinheim reacted with a 5-run rally of its own, which began with back-to-back doubles by Ramiro Balentina and Jeffrey Arends.
Later in the inning, after a pitching change, an error, 2-run single by Draijer and a single by Cremer made it 11-9 in Kinheim's favor.
After adding a run in the seventh, Kinheim scored four more runs in the eighth.
| Corendon Kinheim - Vaessen Pioniers 16-9 |
| R | H | E |
| Vaessen Pioniers | 100 | 125 | 000 | - | 9 | 14 | 6 |
| Corendon Kinheim | 400 | 115 | 14X | - | 16 | 16 | 1 |
| pitchers Pioniers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Mika de Lincel | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | - |
| Joran Klarenbeek, L (0-1) | 2 (*) | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Shane Gnade | 0.1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Dennis Buring | 1.1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Daley Paalvast | 1.1 | - | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| (*) - Klarenbeek pitched to four batters in the sixth inning |
| pitchers Kinheim | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| David Bergman | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Jean-Paul Gulinck, BS (1) | 0.1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Pim Walsma, W (1-0) | 2.2 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - |
| Arshwin Asjes | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - |
| Homerun: Kinheim: Remco Draijer (1)(solo,5th,off Klarenbeek). |
Umpires: HP-Olav Steijger, 1B-Jan-Willem van der Paauw, 3B-Efrem Silvania.
Official Scorer-Linda Steijger.
Play-by-Play-Maaike Houtkamp.
Time-3:46 hr. |
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ADO Lakers vs. L&D Amsterdam Pirates
At The Hague, ADO Lakers surprised with a 3-1 victory against L&D Amsterdam Pirates.
The Amsterdam-squad collected only five basehits off of two pitchers and trailed twice in the game.
ADO Lakers took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning, which was erased by Pirates in the sixth at bat.
But in the eighth, ADO Lakers scored twice and this time held onto the lead.
Kevin Heijstek made his debut in a Pirate-uniform and went the distance.
The righthander threw on rookie catcher Milan Post, as regular catcher Bas Nooij didn't get into action today.
In the first inning, this battery saw ADO Lakers open the score.
Nurison Leonora led off with a triple and scored on a following grounder by Tim Schaareman.
Heijstek then held the home team scoreless in the next six innings, while Pirates came alongside in the sixth.
Amsterdam left the bases loaded in the third inning, but scored the tying run in the sixth at bat.
Jesse Aussems led off with a bunt-single and moved on a grounder, but was then forced out on a grounder by Wesley Connor.
After Connor advanced on a wild pitch, Bas de Jong walked, then an error on a grounder by Kenny Berkenbosch made it 1-1.
ADO Lakers re-took the lead in the eighth.
Quensley Bazoer led off with a single and moved on a sac-bunt by Edison Bito and a grounder.
A double by Leonoara then made it 2-1 and a wilde pitch enabled him to score the next run moments later to make it 3-1.
| ADO Lakers - L&D Amsterdam Pirates 3-1 |
| R | H | E |
| L&D Amsterdam Pirates | 000 | 001 | 000 | - | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| ADO Lakers | 100 | 000 | 02X | - | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| pitcher Pirates | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Kevin Heijstek, L (0-1) | 8 | 5 | - | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| pitchers ADO Lakers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Wimsley van Heijningen | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Martijn Riphagen, W (1-0) | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Umpires: HP-Rudsel Schoobaar, 1B-Mario Blaauw, 3B-Johan Brandsma.
Official Scorer-Fred van der Kade.
Play-by-Play-Harumi Ueda.
Time-2:04 hr. |
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DOOR Neptunus vs. Mampay The Hawks
At Rotterdam, DOOR Neptunus also won big its second game against Mampaey The Hawks, 16-5, on thirteen basehits, including the second homer in in two games by Rudy Van Heydoorn.
Initially, The Hawks took an 1-0 lead in the first inning off of starter Orlando Yntema.
With one out, Urving Kemp and Erwin Bonis singled and moved on a sac-bunt by Steven Wharwood.
A wild pitch then enabled Kemp to give The Hawks its first lead in the big league.
In the third inning, Neptunus erased the deficit with a 9-run rally, highlighted by a 3-run triple by Benjamin Dille.
Trailing, 10-1, The Hawks rallied for four runs in the fourth inning, but Neptunus added four runs of its own in the home half of the fourth.
The game ended because of the 10-run difference mercy rule in the seventh inning when Rudy Van Heydoorn hit a 2-run, walk-off homerun.
| DOOR Neptunus - Mampaey The Hawks 16-5 |
| R | H | E |
| Mampaey The Hawks | 100 | 400 | 0 | - | 5 | 8 | 7 |
| DOOR Neptunus | 019 | 400 | 2 | - | 16 | 13 | 0 |
| (two outs when 10-run difference was reached in the 7th inning) |
| pitchers The Hawks | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Pim Swinkels, L (0-1) | 2.2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 |
| Hugo van der Kooij | 4 | 2 | - | 5 | 6 | - |
| pitchers Neptunus | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Orlando Yntema, W (1-0) | 5 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| José Moreno | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Homerun: Neptunus: Rudy van Heydoorn (2)(2-run,7th,off Van der Kooij). |
Umpires: HP-Fred van Groningen Schinkel, 1B-Martijn Bosschaart, 3B-Fred Groenewegen.
Official Scorer-Rienette Hamers.
Play-by-Play-Sven van Eijk.
Time-2:25 hr. |
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Mr. Cocker HCAW vs. UVV
At Bussum, UVV, which hit only four basehits, took an early 3-0 lead in the first three innings en route to its second win vs. Mr. Cocker HCAW, 4-3.
HCAW's Venezuelan-born Spanish starting pitcher Ivan Granados struckout two batters in the first inning, but then gave up a run in the second at bat.
He walked lead-off hitter Ricky Daal, who advanced on a single by Giovanni Samboe, then later scored on an error.
Two runs were added in the third inning on another error and a single by Daal.
HCAW got one run back in the fourth on a single by Kevin Nieveld, but UVV made it a 3-run difference again in the sixth on a sac-fly by Brennan Nijhof.
In the eighth, HCAW narrowed the deficit to 4-3 on a single by Jorin van Amstel and a throwing error, but ended up empty-handed again.
| Mr. Cocker HCAW - UVV 3-4 |
| R | H | E |
| UVV | 012 | 001 | 000 | - | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Mr. Cocker HCAW | 000 | 100 | 020 | - | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| pitchers UVV | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Dennis Burgersdijk | 3.2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Ian Delemarre, W (1-0) | 3.1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Jeroen de Haas, H (1) | 0.1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Duko Jansen, SV (1) | 1.2 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| pitchers HCAW | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Ivan Granados, L (0-1) | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Roel Bellinga | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sedley Karel | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Gijs van Els | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Umpires: HP-Edwin Louisa, 1B-Coen van Lierop, 3B-Henri van Heijningen.
Official Scorer-Dieks Bannink.
Play-by-Play-Feiko Drost.
Time-2:41 hr. |
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(April 13)
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