(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Neptunus defeats DSS and sets new mark
Nederlands
 ROTTERDAM (Neth.) -
Curaçao Neptunus won 4-1 against DSS on Sunday (July 10) to complete a 3-game sweep.
With the loss, DSS was the second team to be eliminated for the Play-Offs.
After completion of this series, the season will be interrupted for the Baseball Week Haarlem, which opens next Friday.
When the season resumes, Neptunus will be one of only two teams that are left over to finish in first place of the Overall Standings, the other being L&D Amsterdam Pirates.
The first placed team qualifies for participation in next years European Champions Cup.
The team that captures the Dutch championship-title in the Holland Series also will qualify.
For Neptunus, this was its 30th win of the season to become the first team with ten consecutive seasons with 30 (or more) victories.
Neptunus earlier had nine 30-plus win seasons in a row (1997-2005), a mark which its tied last year.
It is the 22nd season for Neptunus in which it wins at least 30 games.
Other teams with more than one season of 30 wins are Kinheim (10), Amsterdam Pirates (6), Haarlem Nicols (3) and HCAW (3).
Neptunus initially trailed halfway the first inning, but then answered with two runs.
The Rotterdam-squad added runs in the second and fifth at bat.
In the fifth, the run was scored by Shaldimar Daantji, who led off with his seventh triple of the season.
With that, he tied the all-time, single season record, which was originally set in 1983 by Marcel Joost (Haarlem Nicols).
In following years, the record was tied by Robert Eenhoorn (1988, Haarlem Nicols), Johnny Balentina (1998, Neptunus) and Elton Wilson (1999, Hoofddorp Pioniers).
Today, Daantji became the fifth player in history to hit seven triples in one season.
(complete recap will be added later)
(July 10)
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Shaldimar Daantji (Neptunus) ties the all-time season-record by hitting his 7th triple.