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      Federations Cup-tournament underway in Brno
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 BRNO (Czech Rep.) -
The six-team tournament for the Federation Cup went underway on Tuesday (June 21) in the Czech city of Brno.
On the first day of the event, three big scores were registered.
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)
Related Articles:
 Rouen wins CEB Cup. (June 5)
Amsterdam Pirates wins European Champions Cup. (June 4)
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Moskvich vs. Deurne Spartans
Belgian champion Deurne Spartans was held scoreless in the first two innings, but then scored in each of the next five innings.
The team rallied for seven runs in the seventh inning to raise the lead to 14-0, more than enough to end the game via the mercy-rule.
Deurne collected 13 basehits, including three by Leonel Reina Viant, who also batted in four runs.
Frank Alves Vilacha started for the Belgian squad and struckout 13 Russian batters in the five innings he pitched, while giving up only three basehits.
Deurne opened the score with two runs in the third inning on singles by Leonel Reina Viant and Riugino Jonis.
Three runs were added in the fourth at bat thanks to singles by Reina Viant and Morris De Vriendt and a wild pitch.
A balk gave the Belgians another run in the fifth, but in that at bat, they also stranded three runners.
A grounder by Jonis made it 7-0 in the sixth inning.
Deurne then doubled its lead in the top of the seventh on four basehits, highlighted by 2-run singles by Reina Viant and Alberto Valerio.
The Russians only got into scoring position in the third and fourth inning.
In the third, Georgii Kochnov doubled with one out, but was left behind.
In the fourth, Sergey Kudryashov singled with one out and Georgy Bolotin walked with two outs, but they also stranded.
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Sölvesborg Firehawks vs. Buffaloes Blagoevgrad
In the second game today, Sölvesborg registered a 9-1 win against Blagoevgrad.
The Swedish team registered 14 basehits, including four by Joel Johnson.
The Firehawks scored their runs in the first six innings of the game, while the Buffaloes scored their lone run in the second at bat.
After the Bulgarians had left a runner on second base in the top of the first inning, the Swedish opened with two runs in its first at bat.
With two runners on base, a single by Joel Johnson accounted for the first run, then a sacrifice fly by Daniel Johnson made it 2-0.
The Buffaloes got one run back in the top of the second inning.
Alexander Tashev then led off with a walk, stole second base with one out and scored on a 2-out single by Nikolay Karashtranov.
In the remainder of the game, only two more Bulgarian runners got into scoring position.
An error in the second inning and a 2-out double in the third inning by Kevin Kias gave the Swedish lead a 4-1 lead.
Two runs were added in the fourth on when a single, double and triple were hit in a row with two outs.
Kim Hallsten then singled and scored on a double by Evan Porter, who scored on a following triple by Joel Johnson.
The lead was increased via a sacrifice fly by Anton Calson in the fifth and a 2-run single by Johannes Kallfors in the sixth.
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Draci Brno vs. Apollo Bratislava
The first day of the event closed with a big 12-2 win in 6½ inning by hosting club Draci Brno against Apollo Bratislava from Slovakia.
The Czechs broke an 1-1 tie in the bottom of the third inning with a 9-run rally!
Brno opened the score in the bottom of the second inning.
With one out Tomáš Polanský singled, advanced to third base when an error was made on a grounder by Alexander Derhak and scored on a sacrifice fly by Michal Ondráček.
Bratislava came alongside in the top of the third inning.
With two outs, Jakub Horaček singled, stole second base and scored on a single by Anthony Barreto.
Brno then took a dominating lead by scoring nine runs on six basehits in the bottom of the third inning.
Jakub Hajtmar led off with a single and Adam Hajtmar walked, then both scored on a following double by Přemek Chroust to give Brno a renewed lead.
Later in the at bat, Tomáš Polanský and Adam Hajtmar also delivered 2-run doubles, while two more runs were scored on a single by Přemek Chroust, who batted in four runs in this at bat.
Bratislava scored its second run in the fifth in an error, but Brno added two more runs in the sixth.
In that at bat, a single by Michael Kremláček and a sacrifice fly by Michal Ondráček lifted the lead to 12-2 to get a mercy-rule run-difference.
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