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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 HCAW closes regular season with shutout against Twins
Nederlands
 OOSTERHOUT (Neth.) -
HCAW became the first team to close its regular season on Sunday (July 30) and the Bussum-squad did it with a 4-0 shutout-win against De Glaskoning Twins to complete a 3-game sweep.
HCAW won 3-1 in the opener on Thursday, then won 2-0 on Saturday.
With the win, HCAW will finish the season in third place, as Hoofddorp Pioniers today lost 7-5 to league-leader L&D Amsterdam Pirates.
Pioniers can still end up in a tie for third place with HCAW.
To do so, it has to win its last three games in the upcoming series against Twins.
However, the head-to-head results are in favor of HCAW, which won three of the six games played, while one game ended in a tie.
That tie now has become decisive and is the result of the curfew-rule.
On Thursday-evening, June 1, the game in Bussum had an one hour, 12 minutes sun-delay after four complete innings with the score at 0-0.
HCAW then took an 1-0 lead in the fifth, but Pioniers came alongside in the seventh.
With the score at 1-1, the game was then halted after eight complete innings, due to the 10:30 PM curfew-rule!
The lone decision remaining in the regular season is sixth and seventh place.
Pickles UVV, which is in sixth place, closes its season against Amsterdam.
As mentioned, Twins, which is in seventh place, closes against Pioniers.
UVV is ahead two points (one game).
On August 17, HCAW will play its first series in the Championship Pool against Curaçao Neptunus, which finished in second place because of the Amsterdam-win today
It will mark the first time since 2005 that HCAW will play again in the Play-Offs (or Championship Pool).
Starting on August 19, Twins will play in the Promotion/Relegation Pool with DSS, UVV and the three best teams from the second highest league ('Overgangsklasse').
Less than a week ago, it appeared that Storks, Quick Amersfoort and Onze Gezellen were to be those three teams.
Four of the six teams will play at the highest level next season.
However, a few days ago, a game of RCH-Pinguïns against Neptunus Tridents was re-scheduled, due to an ineligible player used by Tridents in a game that was won against the Heemstede-squad.
In the published final standings, RCH-Pinguïns finished in fourth place, two points (one game) behind Quick Amersfoort and Onze Gezellen.
The game is re-scheduled for Tuesday, August 15 and will be played in Heemstede.
When RCH-Pinguïns wins, it will create a 3-way tie with Quick Amersfoort and Onze Gezellen.
The head-to-head results then will be in favor of Quick Amersfoort and RCH-Pinguïns, unless there is another ruling when three teams are tied.
(July 30)
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It appeared that HCAW again would record a small victory today against Twins.
After winning 3-1 and 2-0 in the previous two games, HCAW led only 2-0 after six innings today.
The Bussum-squad then added two more runs in the seventh at bat.
HCAW got a fine performance from starting pitcher Ian Delemarre, who gave up only four basehits in eight innings.
HCAW got on the board quickly in the first inning off of starting pitcher Brendan Schoemaker.
Delano Selassa led off with a double, moved on a grounder and then scored when Kevin Dirksen reached on an error.
HCAW added its second run in the next at bat, which also was the result of a defensive error.
With one out, Kevin Weijgertse doubled.
With two outs, he stole third base, then was able to score when a throwing error followed.
HCAW also reached base in the next innings, but left six runners behind (four in scoring position) from the third through sixth inning.
The team then added two insurance runs in the seventh inning.
Twins also reached base in its first two innings off of Ian Delemarre, but was held scoreless.
With two outs in the first, Melvin Perdue singled, but stranded on first base.
With two outs in the second, Mick Molenaar doubled, but he also was left behind.
Delemarre retired the side in the next two innings, but then saw Twins come close to a run in the fifth.
Menno Lenting led off with a walk, stole second base, then reached third base when a throwing error followed.
He stranded there, as three grounders followed and it was not possible to score on the first two.
In the sixth inning, Delemarre was supported with a double play.
In the top of the seventh at bat, HCAW added two runs off of Daisuke Yamashita, who took over the pitching for Twins in the previous inning.
Roelie Henrique led off with a walk, then moved to third base when an outfield-error followed on a single by Kevin Dirksen, who ended up on second base.
Henrique then scored on a sacrifice fly by Jeandro Tromp, who had entered the game defensively in the sixth, taking over in rightfield.
Tromp made his big league-debut on Saturday.
Shortly hereafter, Dirksen scored the next run on a single by Seb Visser to make it a 4-0 score.
After Delemarre retired the side again in the bottom of the seventh, Twins got another runner in the next at bat.
Mick Molenaar led off with a single, advanced on two grounders, but stranded on third base.
With a 4-0 lead, Moreno Vork closed the game for HCAW in the ninth.
He walked lead-off hitter Dennis De Quint, then Bram Grooten reached on an error.
With two outs, the bases got loaded when Menno Lenting singled, but Vork then closed the game with a strikeout.
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| De Glaskoning Twins - HCAW 0-4 |
| R | H | E |
| HCAW | 110 | 000 | 200 | - | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| De Glaskoning Twins | 000 | 000 | 000 | - | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| pitchers HCAW | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Ian Delemarre, W (6-2) | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | - | - |
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| Moreno Vork | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
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| pitchers Twins | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Brendan Schoemaker, L (3-4) | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
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| Daisuke Yamashita | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
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| Thijs Steenwijk | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
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| Matthew Latta | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Umpires:
HP-Stenar van Groningen Schinkel, 1B-Henri van Heijningen, 3B-Edwin Louisa.
Official Scorer-Jeanette van Drunen.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Alex van den Berg.
Public Address Announcer-Frans Vuister.
Scoreboard Operator-Piet van Gool.
Starting Time-3:00 PM.
Time Played-2:32 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'De Slotbosse Toren', Oosterhout.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Partly cloudy, 21,9° C (71,4° F); wind direction west;
wind speed 26 kmh (16,3 mph); wind force 4 Bft; humidity 67%. |
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