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Federations Cup Qualifier in London opens with huge scores
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LONDON, England (Great Britain) - The Federations Cup Qualifier in British capital London opened on Tuesday (June 21) with two big scores.

Stal Kutno (Poland) and Borgerhout Squirrels (Belgium) respectively won with scores of 20-3 and 24-8. Five teams participate in the tournament.

The Federations Cup is one of the three European club-competitions, which were introduced this year in a new format by the European Baseball Confederation (CEB). The new set-up enables more European clubs to participate in European Cup-tournaments. There are three levels with promotion and relegation-possibilities. The new set-up replaces the two-tournament format in which teams played only for the European Champions Cup. With that, the current set-up is a return to the original format of three European Cup-levels, as it existed before 2008. Back then, teams played for the European Cup, the European Cup Winners Cup and the CEB Cup. The current level is headed by the European Champions Cup, followed by the CEB Cup and the Federations Cup.

The country of the winning team of the tournament in Brno promotes to the CEB Cup. The two countries that finish in last place will relegate to a Federation Cup Qualifier. The two winning countries of the tournaments in Sant Boi and London will promote and will be represented in next years Federations Cup-tournament.

(June 21)

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Atletico Alexandria vs. Stal Kutno
Stal Kutno from Poland opened the tournament at Farnham Park in London with a big 20-3 victory in seven innings against Atletico Alexandria from Romania.

The Polish squad collected 22 basehits, including five by Artur Wojtczak, who doubled twice. He scored twice and batted in four runs. Jakub Wojtczak registered four basehits, including two doubles and a triple, scored four runs and batted in three. Maciej Wroblewski and Mariusz Grzanowski were also productive, respectively scoring four and three runs. Both batted in three runs. Eight players scored at least once and had at least once basehit.

Winning pitcher Jakub Nadolski struckout eleven batters in seven innings and gave up six basehits.

Kutno opened the score with five runs in the top of the first inning off of starting pitcher Andrei Adumitrachioaie. Jakub Wojtczak, Mariusz Grzanowski and Artur Wojtczak all hit RBI-doubles, while Mateusz Serafin contributed with a 2-run triple.

After scoring once in the second inning, the Polish squad again scored five runs in the third at bat.

Trailing 11-0, Alexandria scored three runs in the bottom of the third inning. With the bases loaded, the first run was scored on a grounder by Cornel Panaitescu, then Adrian Preda followed with a 2-run single. But that was to be it for the Romanian squad.

Kutno rallied for six runs in the fourth inning to take a dominating 17-3 lead. Three more runs were added in the seventh to lift the lead to 20-3.




London Mets vs. Borgerhout Squirrels
In the late afternoon-game today, Borgerhout Squirrels broke a 2-2 tie with a 7-run rally in the third inning, then added six runs in the fourth at bat. Opponent London Mets then scored four runs in its fourth at bat to make it a 15-6 score, then added two runs in the seventh. Borgerhout then put the game out of reach by scoring nine runs in the top of the eighth, resulting in a big 24-8 victory.

The Belgian squad collected 19 basehits, including four by Wesley Janssens and Steven De Lannoy. All nine players in the Belgian line-up scored at least one run, led by Timen Van Geel, who scored four. Eight of the nine players collected at least one basehit.

London also had a productive game with 14 basehits with six players hitting two of them.

With the score at 2-2, Borgerhout scored seven runs on seven hits in the third at bat. Alexis Marquez led off with a bunt-single, stole second base, then gave Borgerhout a renewed lead by scoring on a following double by Joannes Ochoa Blanco. Later in the at bat, Rob Lewis delivered a 2-run double.

A 6-run rally followed in the fourth inning on only two basehits, which were runscoring singles by Janssens and De Lannoy. Other runs in the at bat were scored on a wild pitch, sacrifice fly, basesloaded walk and an error.

London got four runs back in its fourth at bat on five basehits, highlighted by a runscoring triple by Zach Stroman and RBI-doubles by Jamie Dix and Martin Tucker.

In the seventh, London narrowed the deficit to 15-8 by scoring two runs on an error and a single by Stroman. But the team also left three runners behind.

In a long top of the eighth inning, Borgerhout rallied for nine runs on six basehits. Rob Lewis and Kevin Vervloet contributed with 2-run singles, while Steven De Lannoy singled in one run. A basesloaded walk for Sam Boermans also brought in a run. Two runs were scored on an error, while another one was recorded on a passed ball.




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