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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo by Tubantia & José ter Steege)
...Monique Mooi is honored for her 500th game...
(© Photo: Tubantia) |
 Tex Town Tigers & Talent Team Holland split double-header
Nederlands
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Tex Town Tigers and the Talent Team Holland split their double-header on Sunday (April 26), meaning both teams won their first game of the season in the Dutch big league.
Tex Town Tigers won the opener 9-2 in a 5-inning mercy-rule game.
The Talent Team then won the second game with a 3-1 score behind the pitching of rookie Roos-Marijn Kramer, who went the distance.
Before the first game, veteran player Monique Mooi-ter Steege was honored, as she was about to play in her 500th career game for Tex Town Tigers.
She made her debut in the main squad of the club on May 24, 1992, the day when she celebrated her 14th birthday, in a game against County Hitters when Tex Town Tigers played on the so-called District-level.
Hereafter, she went on to play with Tex Town Tigers in its first stint in the Dutch big league in 1996-1998.
After it had relegated, she kept on playing for the team in lower divisions.
When Tex Town Tigers promoted back to the highest division, she also made her comeback in the big league in 2005.
(April 26)
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...Monique Mooi is honored by...
...TTT-chairman Renate van Stigt...
...and Jan van der Molen...
...At left is Monique's son Milan...
(© Photo: José ter Steege) |
Game 1
In the opener, Lindsey Meadows made her first start of the season for Tex Town Tigers and her first since August 18, 2012.
She pitched for Olympia Haarlem in the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
The righthander struckout three batters and gave up six basehits in today's game.
Tex Town Tigers had two big rallies in this game to decide and finish it via the mercy-rule.
The first rally produced four runs with two outs in the second inning and was set in motion by Lindsey Meadows, who led off with a double.
She was unable to advance when Laura Wissink followed with an infield-hit.
The two then moved on a sacrifice bunt by Monique Mooi.
With two outs, then first run was scored on a single by Shaneequa Kock, then a walk for Nadine Marinus added the next run.
A 2-run single by Annemiek Jansen made it 4-0.
The Talent Team narrowed the deficit to 4-2 by scoring a run in the fourth and fifth inning.
In the fourth inning, Dervisa Mutic singled with two outs, stole second base and scored on a single by Lizzie Clarijs.
In the fifth, Tammie Lijbers led off with a walk and also score with two outs when Brenda Beers singled.
In the bottom of the fifth, Lizzie Clarijs took over the pitching for the Talent Team.
In this at bat, Tex Town Tigers staged its next rally, scoring five runs to reach the 7-run difference and end the game.
Annemiek Jansen led off with a double and scored on a following single by Alana Westerhof.
Hereafter, back-to-back doubles by Lindsey Meadows and Laura Wissink led to the next two runs.
With one out, a single by Isa Los made i 8-2, meaning Tex Town Tigers needed only one run to end the game.
After Linda van Dijk singled and two bases moved on a wild pitch, that final run was scored via a sacrifice bunt by Shaneequa Kock.
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| Tex Town Tigers - Talent Team Holland 9-2 (5 inn.) (Game 1) |
| R | H | E |
| Talent Team Holland | 000 | 11 | | - | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| Tex Town Tigers | 040 | 05 | | - | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| (two outs when 7-run difference was reached in the fifth inning) |
| pitchers Talent Team | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Roos-Marijn Kramer, L (0-2) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Lizzie Clarijs | 0.2 | - | - | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| pitcher Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lindsey Meadows, W (1-0) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
Umpires: HP-Martin Lemstra, 1B-Robin Stoevelaar.
Official Scorer-Feiko Drost.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Ingrid Oosterveld.
Public Address Announcer-Bertil Haage.
Time-1:15 hr.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 13,5° C (56,3° F), west-northwestern wind 18 kmh (11 mph), humidity 82%. |
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Game 2
In the second game, the Talent Team took an early lead and hold onto it, thanks to the fine pitching by Roos-Marijn Kramer.
She also had started the first game and then threw four innings.
In this game, the righthander went the distance, throwing seven innings.
Starting for Tex Town Tigers was Linda van Dijk, the sister of Monique Mooi, who was honored for playing her 500th game.
Hardthrowing Linda initially had retired, but was added to the team for today's games, due to some injuries.
In the first at bat, the Talents opened the score with one run.
Damishah Charles led off with a single and moved on a sacrifice bunt by Brenda Beers.
After Rachel van Veen walked, the first run was scored when Manoa Weijgertse singled down the leftfield-line.
The second run was added in the third inning.
With one out, Rachel van Veen singled and Manoa Weijgertse walked.
With two outs, the first scored on a single by Lizzie Clarijs, but the inning ended when Weijgerste was eliminated trying to advance to third base on the single.
The Talent Team made it a 3-0 score in the fifth inning off of new pitcher Shaneequa Kock, who took over for starter Linda van Dijk.
Brenda Beers then reached on an error, stole second base and scored on a 2-out single by Dervisa Mutic.
Trailing 1-0, Tex Town Tigers got a chance to do something back in the second inning when it got the bases loaded with no outs.
Laura Wissink singled, Monique Mooi reached on an error after her bunt and Isa Los also singled.
But the Talent Team avoided giving up runs.
A foul-out, strikeout and flyout ended the inning.
In the third, now trailing 2-0, Annemiek Jansen led off with a single, but this time, Roos-Marijn Kramer was supported with a double play.
In the sixth, a runner stranded at third base for Tex Town Tigers, which was then retired in order in the seventh to end the game.
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| Tex Town Tigers - Talent Team Holland 1-3 (Game 2) |
| R | H | E |
| Talent Team Holland | 101 | 010 | 0 | - | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| Tex Town Tigers | 000 | 001 | 0 | - | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| pitcher Talent Team | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Roos-Marijn Kramer, W (1-2) | 7 | 2 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| pitchers Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Linda van Dijk, L (0-1) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Shaneequa Kock | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - |
Umpires: HP-Robin Stoevelaar, 1B-Martin Lemstra.
Official Scorer-Feiko Drost.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Ingrid Oosterveld.
Public Address Announcer-Renate van Stigt.
Time-1:36 hr.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 14,5° C (58,1° F), west-northwestern wind 18 kmh (11 mph), humidity 89%. |
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