Twins Oosterhout struck early and lead 4-0 after three innings en route to its third consecutive victory.
With that, the team completed its first sweep of the season.
Last year, Twins had one 3-game sweep in the regular season, which also was done against Storks.
Twins collected 13 basehits today, which was its highest total since hitting 16 in the opening game of the season against Quick Amersfoort.
All nine starting players had at least one basehit, including a homerun by Shurman Marlin.
Twins got into scoring position with two outs in the top of the first inning off of starter Gijs Timmer.
The righthander then walked Dennis De Quint and Jason Halman, but a pop-fly closed the at bat.
The team then scored twice in the second inning.
Shurman Marlin led off with a walk, moved on a sacrifice bunt by Jamie Verheyleweghen and was awarded third base on a balk.
With two outs, he scored on a single by Brian Biezen.
A throwing error during a pick-off attempt enabled Biezen to advance to third base and he then scored on a single by Joshua Zara.
In the third inning, Twins added two runs.
The bases got loaded when Dennis De Quint walked, Jason Halman reached on an infield-hit and Yuki Yoshimura followed with a bunt-single.
A run was then scored when next batter Shurman Marlin walked and a sacrifice fly by Jamie Verheyleweghen accounted for the second run in the inning to make it a 4-0 score.
Twins increased its lead to 7-0 by scoring a run in each of the three middle innings.
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In the fourth, Joshua Zara led off with a walk and Stijn Janssens singled.
But Zara was then picked off on second base.
Moments later, Dennis De Quint delivered an RBI-double.
Storks got only one baserunner in its first three at bats off of starter Thomas Roijers.
Trailing 5-0, the team got a chance to do something back in the bottom of the fourth, but left three runners behind.
Giovanny Perez led off with a double, then Luuk Visser was hit by a pitch and the bases got loaded when Glennton Poulo singled.
But hereafter, Perez was forced out at the plate on a grounder by Joost van den Bergh.
An infield-fly accounted for the second out and a grounder ended the inning.
Twins added its next run in the fifth off of new pitcher Sem Lauf when Shurman Marlin led off with a homerun.
In the sixth, Twins scored again.
Stijn Janssens led off with a double, moved on a grounder, then scored on a double by Jason Halman.
The scoring wasn't over yet for Twins, as it scored its eighth run in the top of the seventh.
Jamie Verheyleweghen and Nick Peels led off singles and advanced on a wild pitch.
After the bases got loaded when Brian Biezen walked, a pitching change followed.
José Moreno took over, but he saw a run being scored on a grounder by Joshua Zara.
Twins left two runners behind, but now led 8-0.
Storks was retired in order in the sixth, seventh and eighth inning, but then scored twice in the bottom of the ninth off of rookie Koen Postelmans.
Luuk Visser led off with a single, was awarded second base on a balk, then scored on a double by Glennton Poulo.
With two outs, Krisztián Tóth singled and when that was followed by an outfield-error, Poulo was able to score.
But that was to be it for the home-team.
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Twins Oosterhout completes first sweep of season
THE HAGUE (Neth.) -
Twins Oosterhout won 8-2 against Silicon Storks on Sunday (May 5) to complete its first sweep of the season.
