 HOOFDDORP (Neth.) - After their game rained out Sunday-afternoon, Mr. Cocker HCAW and Konica Minolta Pioniers decided to put it on their schedule again for tonight, to be played in Hoofddorp. Initially, this was to be the sixth game of the 20th Jan van de Vegte Memorial Tournament in Nijmegen, which was halted after only the morning game was played on Sunday. Rain made the field unplayable, resulting in the cancelation of the remaining two games. HCAW had to play in both of these games and had played only its first game on Saturday. Pioniers also played on Saturday, then played on Sunday-morning, before the rain came.
Tonight, HCAW dominated, registering 14 basehits off six pitchers to give them a convincing 12-2 victory in a 9-inning game. Pioniers had only seven basehits off five pitchers.
Both teams assigned their foreign pitcher to start the game and HCAW's American Adam Sowell did better than Pioniers' Venezuelan Nelson Santander Olajo.
Sowell threw the first three innings, gave up only two hits in the second inning, resulting in a run, and struckout one.
Santander was relieved in the third inning. In his 2 2/3 inning, Santander, who also pitched for Pioniers last season, walked seven batters and was credited with six earned runs, but also struckout four batters and gave up only two hits, one of them a homerun.
For both, it was their first pitching appearance of the season.
HCAW opened the score with one out in the first inning.
Shurty Tremus then walked and Sidney Ensermo followed with a 2-run homerun.
On his trip around the bases, Tremus injured himself and left the game after scoring. He was replaced by Randy Daal, who also had a slight injury and therefore played only defensively and didn't bat.
After stranding two runners in the first (both had walked), Pioniers came back with a run in the second at bat.
Norbert Lokhorst led off with a single, moved on a passed ball, then scored on a 2-out double by Joey Treurniet, who was 3-for-3, but was eliminated on second base in a double play in his next two at bats.
HCAW added four runs on only two hits in the third inning, as Nelson Santander Olajo walked four batters.
The Venezuelan walked the first three batters he faced in this inning.
After walking, lead-off hitter Jermaine Esprit stole second, then Ralph Milliard also walked.
The two moved after a passed ball, then the bases were loaded when Sidney Ensermo walked.
Next, a run was scored on a sac-fly by Ricky Daal.
After Ronald Jaarsma struckout, Sebastiaan Olgers walked, reloading the bases.
Two runs then scored on a single by Adrian Anthony, resulting in a pitching change.
Santander was relieved by Maarten Mulder, who gave up a double to Adam Sowell, making it 6-1.
Mulder also gave up HCAW's seventh run in the fifth inning.
With one out, Sebastiaan Olgers doubled, moved on a bunt-single by Adrian Anthony and scored on a single by Max Brevet.
Pioniers got one run back in the home of the sixth.
After Joey Eijpe threw two scoreless innings for HCAW, Kevin Roovers took over in the sixth and was greeted with a double by Michael Duursma, but then struckout Mervin Gario.
Glenn Romney followed with a comeback-grounder, which resulted in Duursma being putout in a rundown.
Romney advanced to second base on the play, then reached third on a single by Dè Flanegin, who at this moment was added to the batting order.
Romney then scored when a throwing error was made on a force play-grounder by Jourick Blanco, but the inning ended when Mark Duursma struckout.
HCAW rallied for four more runs in the seventh inning.
Tommy van Limburg became the fourth pitcher for Pioniers, after Czech Jan Rehacek had retired the side in the previous inning.
van Limburg started with two walks, then gave up four consecutive singles.
After Ricky Daal and Ronald Jaarsma walked, the bases were loaded when Sebastiaan Olgers singled.
Hereafter, Adrian Anthony (who was 3-for-4), pinch-hitter Juriën Overman and Max Brevet all delivered RBI-singles to make it 10-1.
Van Limburg was replaced by Dave Draijer, who got a double play-grounder out of next batter Siemen Korff, but Anthony scored on the play.
In the eighth inning, HCAW scored its twelfth run when Ralph Milliard led off with a double and scored on a grounder by Ricky Daal.
Pioniers got its lead-off batter on base in the eighth and ninth inning, but couldn't add more runs.
In the eighth, Joey Treurniet hit his third basehit in the game, but a flyout and double play-grounder followed.
In the ninth, Mervin Gario reached on a throwing error, followed by a grounder and two nice catches by leftfielder Ricky Daal and third baseman Sidney Ensermo, who also had made a nice play on a grounder back in the third inning.
HCAW and Pioniers will meet each other again next Sunday on Day Two of the annual In Memoriam Charles Urbanus, Sr. Tournament, which is hosted by HCAW and opens next Saturday.
ADO and Dutch champion Corendon Kinheim also participates in the event.
The other four big league-teams, DOOR Neptunus, L&D Amsterdam, MediaMonks RCH and Sparta/Feyenoord will play in the Hudson John Tournament, which is organized by the latter and starts Friday-evening.
(April 1)
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