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(Story & Photos by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Terrasvogels shuts out Tex Town Tigers to close Day 1 PO-Weekend
Nederlands
 ALMERE (Neth.) -
Terrasvogels won 6-0 vs. Tex Town Tigers to win its first game to conclude the first day of the 6-game Golden League Play-Off Weekend on Saturday (September 19) at the site of Almere '90 in Almere.
In the previous game today, Terrasvogels lost 5-1 vs. FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem, which had opened the day with a 13-0 win vs. Tex Town Tigers.
The Play-Off Weekend concludes with three more games on Sunday, also in Almere.
Game One - Olympia Haarlem vs. Tex Town Tigers
Game Two - Terrasvogels vs. Olympia Haarlem
The Play-Off Weekend is part of a new format to conclude the softball-season.
It will be followed by the Golden League Holland Series Weekend, which will take place coming weekend on the site of Hoofddorp Pioniers in Hoofddorp.
In the new set-up, the winner of the regular season (which ended on Sunday, September 13) automatically qualified for this final weekend.
But that also means that season-winner Oolders Omaco Sparks Haarlem will not play this weekend.
The teams that finished in second, third and fourth place qualified for the Play-Offs during the regular season.
FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem ended in second place, ahead of Terrasvogels.
Last Sunday, Tex Town Tigers became the fourth team to reach the top-4, passing DSS on the final day of the season.
But despite having secured their spot in the Play-Offs, these three teams now play this additional round.
The final ranking in this round determines the filling in of the games for the Holland Series Weekend.
During the Holland Series Weekend, the three regular Play-Off rounds will be played to be followed by the Holland Series.
As opposed to previous seasons, all these rounds, including the decisive Holland Series, will only be a best-of-one!
In the past, the Play-Offs were best-of-three series and the Holland Series a best-of-five.
Also in the new format, all these postseason-games will be played at a neutral site.
Besides the Play-Off Weekend in Almere and the Holland Series Weekend in Hoofddorp, there also were two Promotion/Relegation Series today in Rosmalen.
(September 19)
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...Ginger de Weert...
...one-hitter...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
Terrasvogels won its first game of the series by shutting out Tex Town Tigers, which was held scoreless for the second time today.
Ginger de Weert pitched a strong game, went the distance, struckout eleven batters and gave up only one basehit.
Tex Town Tigers got three runners to reach third base, but they all stranded.
In the first inning, Annemiek Jansen walked with two outs, then was able to advance to third base on a wild pitch, but De Weert closed with a strikeout.
In the fourth, Laura Wissink doubled with two outs and also moved on a wild pitch.
Again, De Weert ended with a strikeout.
In the fifth, Aafje van Baal led off with a walk, advanced on a passed ball with one out and a wild pitch with two outs, but also was left behind.
De Weert retired the side in three innings.
...Marisèla de Wind...
...double, triple...
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Terrasvogels was retired in order in the first inning by starter Cheyenne Scheffer, but then opened the score in the next at bat.
Kimberly Jones led off with a bunt-single, then scored all the way from first base on a following double by Lizzie Clarijs.
In the third, Jessica Waasdorp (lead-off) and Jessie van Aalst (with two outs) singled, but Terrasvogels stranded two runners.
Terrasvogels then took more distance by scoring three runs in the fifth inning off of Shaneequa Kock, who had taken over the pitching in the previous inning.
With one out, Marisèla de Wind and Ella Krommendijk hit back-to-back doubles to put runners on second and third base.
To set up a force play, Jessie van Aalst was walked intentionally to load the bases.
But hereafter, the bases were cleared and all three runners scored when Kimberly Jones followed with a 3-run triple!
...Laura Wissink...
...lone TTT-hit...
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Terrasvogels increased its lead with two more runs in the top of the seventh inning off of Linda van Dijk, who had taken over after the triple by Jones.
With one out, it was now Marisèla de Wind who tripled.
Ella Krommendijk then walked and advanced on a passed ball.
Jessie van Aalst followed with a runscoring single and the next run was scored on a sacrifice fly by Kimberly Jones, who batted in four runs and scored one.
Trailing 6-0 in the top of the seventh, Laura Wissink led off with a walk, then a flyout followed.
Hereafter, Ginger de Weert struckout the next two batters to raise her total to eleven and end the game.
With her 2-out double in the fourth inning, Laura Wissink accounted for the lone basehit of Tex Town Tigers.
In its first game today vs. Olympia Haarlem, TTT registered only two basehits, both hit by Annemiek Jansen.
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| Tex Town Tigers - Terrasvogels 0-6 |
| R | H | E |
| Terrasvogels | 010 | 030 | 2 | - | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| Tex Town Tigers | 000 | 000 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| pitcher Terrasvogels | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Ginger de Weert, W (1-1) | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| pitchers Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Cheyenne Scheffer, L (0-1) | 3 | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Shaneequa Kock | 1.1 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Linda van Dijk | 2.2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Umpires: HP-Gerrit-Jan van der Hoeven, 1B-Albert Tolen,
3B-Arjan de Wever.
Official Scorer-Stefan Slinger.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Brigitta Zaal.
Technical Commissioner-Bert Loggen.
Public Address Announcer-Wouter Hoos.
Time-1:46 hr.
Game Notes:
Game Three of 6-game Play-Off Weekend (Ranking Round).
Game played at the site of Almere '90 in Almere.
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 15° C (59° F), north-northwestern wind 14 kmh (8,6 mph), wind speed 2,7 Bft, humidity 73%. |
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