(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Neptunus wins 'exhibition title'
Nederlands
 OOSTERHOUT (Neth.) -
Curaçao Neptunus won 12-7 on Saturday (April 8) against De Glaskoning Twins in the second of three games played between the two teams.
They will close the series on Sunday in Rotterdam, starting at 2 PM.
With the victory, Neptunus has 'won' the exhibition season.
The lone team that had a chance to finish in first place was HCAW.
In order to do so, HCAW had to win all four scheduled games this weekend during the In Memoriam Charles Urbanus Sr. Tournament, while Neptunus had to end up losing today and tomorrow against Twins.
HCAW won its first two games today, but as Neptunus also won, it will finish in first place.
Initially, like on Thursday-evening, Neptunus faced an early (and brief) 1-0 deficit after three innings.
Neptunus then scored four runs off of starter Brendan Schoemaker and took more distance moments later by adding two more runs.
Kevin Kelly started for Neptunus and gave up two runs.
He left in the fifth inning with the bases loaded and two outs.
Mike van den Berg took over and saw the inning end with a flyout.
With Neptunus leading 8-3, Twins rallied for four runs in the sixth to make it an one-run difference.
However, Neptunus took more distance in the following innings.
One of these runs were scored on a homerun by Rien Vernooij, while Greg Muller delivered a 2-out, baseclearing, 3-run double.
Misja Harcksen took over for Van den Berg and threw two innings.
Berry van Driel then closed the game by pitching the final inning of the long game, that lasted more than three hours.
As closer Loek van Mil is currently sidelined with an injury, Van Driel will be used in this position.
All Neptunus-players collected at least two hits, except for Jochem Koedijk, who had one basehit.
Today's umpires were Edwin Louisa and Jos van Eijsden.
(April 8)
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