(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Hoofddorp Pioniers records big exhibition win against Storks
Nederlands
 HOOFDDORP (Neth.) -
Hoofddorp Pioniers recorded a big 16-3 exhibition win on a chilly Saturday-afternoon (April 17) against Silicon Storks.
This is the third win for Pioniers, which opened the exhibition season two weeks ago with two wins against its second team.
Last week, both games against Quick Amersfoort were cancelled due to weather conditions.
Storks was able to play two games last week and then split with DSS/Kinheim.
Today, Pioniers took charge of the game right from the beginning.
The team scored twice in the bottom of the first inning and led 4-1 after three innings.
In the three middle innings, Pioniers scored twelve runs to take a commanding lead.
Pioniers collected 16 basehits off of six pitchers.
Storks recorded six off of four pitchers, but also commited seven errors.
In the bottom of the first inning, Storks-starter Jayden Gonesh walked Pioniers lead-off hitter Raul Jacobs, who then stole second base.
With two outs and after Reangelo Willems had walked, Jacobs also stole third base.
Moments later, Jacobs scored the first run in a double-steal situation.
Willems advanced on an infield-hit by Duco Nuijten and scored when a throwing error followed.
Pioniers added a run in the second.
Jorrit Penseel then singled and moved to third base when a force play-grounder by Jaison Gijsbertha ended in a throwing error.
Penseel then scored on another force play-grounder.
Storks was silenced by newcomer Ryan Huntington.
The lefthanded Aruban threw five strong innings, struckout five batters and gave up only one basehit.
Storks scored its first run in the top of the third.
With one out, the team scored on an error.
Today, Huntington faced former teammates Brendly Martina, Renaigel Martis and Darren Winklaar with whom he played in the Dutch Caribbean Team in the 2014 MLB Academies Tournament at the site of Hoofddorp Pioniers.
Pioniers then scored another run in its third at bat.
With one out, Tyler Boersma, Reangelo Willems and Duco Nuijten all walked to load the bases.
Boersma then scored on a force play-grounder.
From the fourth inning on, Pioniers kept on adding runs.
The team rallied for five runs in the bottom of the fourth, which began with a lead-off ground-rule double by Nathan Berkel.
That was the first of seven basehits in this at bat with three of them accounting for four runs.
Pioniers scored three runs in the fifth on three hits.
The team then added four unearned runs in the sixth when the Storks-defense committed two errors.
Storks scored its second and third run in the top of the sixth on three basehits off of reliever Nathan Diaby.
The team was then held scoreless again in the final three innings by newcomers Lucas van der Schouw and John Michael Halley.
Last season, Van der Schouw played for RCH-Pinguïns in the second highest league.
Halley pitched in the big league for Silicon Storks.
(April 17)
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Exhibition game.