(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 All Golden & Silver League-teams in action coming weekend
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
All teams who this season will play in the newly created Golden League and Silver League will get into action in the upcoming Easter Weekend.
All teams?
Well, 17 of the 18 teams have games scheduled.
The lone team without a game is Golden League-team Alcmaria Victrix.
Five of the six Golden League-teams will participate in the annual J.C.J. Mastenbroek Tournament, which is organized by Tex Town Tigers on their site in Enschede.
There, reigning champion Oolders Omaco Sparks Haarlem, vice-champion Terrasvogels, FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem, DSS and Tex Town Tigers will be joined Silver League-team HCAW.
Completing the field of participants are four foreign teams: Carrousel Moscow (Russia), SK Joudrs Praha (Czech Republic), Zürich Barracudas (Switzerland) and the National Team of Germany.
The tournament, with two pools of five teams, opens on Friday-evening, April 3 with two games with the first one beginning at 7 PM.
On Saturday, the ten teams will meet in pool-play, starting at 9:30 AM.
The finals then will be played on Sunday.
Silver League-teams Amsterdam Pirates and Onze Gezellen will participate in Saturday in the Keistad Tournament, organized by Quick Amersfoort and to be played at its site in Amersfoort.
Host BioSilk Quick/Red Caps, which plays in the First Division, opens at 12:30 PM against Onze Gezellen.
Hereafter, the organizing club meets Amsterdam Pirates at 2:15 PM.
The tournament closes with the meeting between the two Silver League-teams at 4 PM.
The tournament also features a meeting between three men softball-teams.
Another triple-header is scheduled to be played on Saturday at the site of Gryphons in Rosmalen between three Silver League-teams.
At 11 AM, the first game will be played between Twins and Roef!.
Hereafter, host Gryphons respectively meets Roef! (1 PM) and Twins (3 PM).
UVV and Centrals will meet each other in Loosdrecht at the site of Hilversum Hurricanes, also on Saturday.
There, the two teams will play the final of the Midden-Nederland Cup, which rained out last Sunday.
The game begins at 2 PM.
The remaining four Silver League-teams will meet each other in two double-headers, which will also be played on Saturday.
At Almere, Almere '90 meets Ban-Topa Future Stars at 12:00 PM.
At Zwijndrecht, Zwijndrecht plays against Euro Stars, starting at 2 PM.
For the twelve teams that will play in the Silver League, coming weekend will be their final preparations.
They will open their regular season on Saturday, April 11.
All details, stats and recaps of the games in the Silver League can be found on this website, as Grand Slam * Stats & News will cover both the Golden League and Silver League this season!
So, you will sit front seat (again) on this website.
The Golden League opens a week later on Saturday, April 18.
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