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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photos by Fred Versluis, Great Britain Softball Team, Rein Merkx & Marco Stoovelaar)
 Twins builds new team for Silver League-season
Nederlands
 OOSTERHOUT (Neth.) -
This season, De Glaskoning Twins made its comeback in the highest division.
Unfortunately, the team was unable to extend its stay in the Golden League and relegated.
With that, Twins will play again in the Silver League in 2017.
During the transfer-period, which ended at 5 PM on Thursday (December 1), Twins saw seven new players come to Oosterhout.
The team also added three young players from its Talent Group to the main-squad.
Eight players left the team, including four, who retired.
In 2017, Jeroen den Duijn will be the new Head Coach of the team.
He succeeds Frank Zaal, who led Twins in the past two seasons.
Den Duijn will be assisted by former big league- and National Team-outfielder Diana Remmers.
This year, Twins finished in a tie for fifth place in the Golden League with Tex Town Tigers, meaning an one-game tiebreaker was needed to decide the ranking.
Twins lost and finished in sixth place, meaning the team had to play in the Promotion Relegation Play-Off.
In that one-game series, Twins lost to Roef! and therefore, the team relegated.
On the other hand, Roef! qualified for the Promotion/Relegation Final and went on to promote to the Golden League.
Complete overview of all transfers in the Dutch big league
(December 1)
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Coming two Twins are pitcher Carling Hare, catcher Claudia Kranendonk, 1B/outfielder Rose Mwaro, infielder/outfielder Damishah Charles, outfielder/infielder Ellinor Keepers, outfielder Ismay Poot and utility player Bobbi Scheurkogel.
Added from the Twins Talent Group were rookies Margot van Eijl (righthanded pitcher), Tess Remmers (catcher) and Emma de Brouwer (infielder).
...Claudia Kranendonk...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) | 
...Damishah Charles...
(© Photo: Fred Versluis) |
With powerhitter Claudia Kranendonk, the Oosterhout-squad added a very experienced player to its roster.
This season, she was a playing coach at Zwijndrecht, for whom she played the past three seasons.
Before that, the veteran catcher, who also plays at third base, played in the big league for Zwijndrecht, Twins and Gryphons.
With this, she returns to the club, where she also played in 2006.
Infielder/outfielder Damishah Charles, who mostly played as short stop, played for Dutch champion Oolders Omaco Sparks Haarlem the past two seasons.
Before that, she also has played in the highest division for the Talent Team Holland.
But she now returns to the club, where she played before she transfered to Sparks Haarlem after the 2014 season.
Since last year, Charles plays for the Netherlands National Softball Team.
Damishah Charles, who also plays college-softball in the USA through May, this season batted .309 (21-for-68) with two doubles and two triples.
She scored 14 runs and batted in eight.
Righthanded pitcher Carling Hare is a member of the Great Britain National Team since 2011.
With the British squad, she participated in two World Championships and three European Championships.
During the recent European Championship in 2015 in Rosmalen (Netherlands), Carling Hare was 3-2 and pitched in nine of the ten games the British team played.
She started all nine games and struckout 29 batters in 27 2/3 inning and finished in fifth place with her team.
Also in 2015, she was on the roster of Centrals in the Silver League.
Besides the three rookies, Twins also added four other young and talented players to its team, being Ellinor Keepers, Rose Mwaro, Ismay Poot and Bobbi Scheurkogel.
Ellinor Keepers has played in three big league-seasons with Gryphons, for whom she played in the Silver League in the past two seasons.
Rose Mwaro and Ismay Poot both played in the Silver League this season for Amsterdam-based Ban-Topa Future Stars.
Both also have played in the program of the Dutch Junior Teams a few years ago.
This year, Ismay Poot played in eleven games in the Golden League for the Talent Team Holland.
She batted .125 (2-for-16) and scored four runs.
Bobbi Scheurkogel played for Gophers this season.
...Carling Hare... | 
...Ellinor Keepers... | 
...Rose Mwaro... | 
...Ismay Poot... |
| (© Photo: GB Softball Team) | (© Photos: Marco Stoovelaar) |
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...Sandy Lauwers...
(© Photo: Rein Merkx) | 
...Sophie Bugter...
(© Photo: Fred Versluis) |
After completion of the season, four players retired, one returned to Belgium and three others opted to go to another club during the transfer-period.
Catcher Kelly De Lannoy, infielders Mandy van Alebeek and Lieke Duffhues and outfielder Sandy Lauwers all retired.
Outfielder Kate Geldof returned to Belgium where she probably will play again next season.
Righthanded pitcher Femke Duffhues (Terrasvogels), 1B/lefthanded pitcher Manon van Alebeek (Roef!) and 3B/catcher Sophie Bugter (DSS) all moved to teams who will in the Golden League next season.
Including in this group are the four best hitters of the team this season, when it made its comeback in the highest league.
Veteran player Sandy Lauwers led the team in hitting with a .354 batting average (29-for-82) with two doubles and two triples.
She scored 16 runs and batted in 12.
Lieke Duffhues, who played at first base, was the second best hitter with a .343 batting average (35-for-102) with three doubles.
She led the team in runs scored (20), basehits (35) and on-base percentage (.422), while batting in nine runs.
...Lieke Duffhues... | 
...Kate Geldof... |
| (© Photos: Fred Versluis) |
Third best hitter was Sophie Bugter, who played her entire career for Twins, except for 2013 when she played for Alcmaria Victrix.
Bugter was the third best hitter with a .333 (30-for-90) batting average with four doubles and two triples.
She scored nine runs and led the team with 16 runs batted in and 13 walks.
Her 30 basehits were second-best of the team.
Kate Geldof batted .275 (19-for-69) with two doubles and was the fourth best hitter in the regular season for Twins.
She scored six runs and batted in eight.
Catcher Kelly De Lannoy played in 25 games and batted .182 (10-for-55) with three doubles and one triple, while scoring four runs.
The Belgian had five runs batted in.
Manon van Alebeek batted .250 (16-for-64) with two doubles and one triple.
She scored three runs and batted in nine.
As a pitcher, Van Alebeek appeared in two games (one start) and was 0-1, throwing 3 2/3 inning.
Van Alebeek also played for the Talent Team Holland.
In that squad, she played in nine games and batted .304, scored two runs and batted in three.
Her sister Mandy van Alebeek played in 15 games and batted .045 (1-for-22), scored once and had two RBI's.
Righthanded pitcher Femke Duffhues has played her entire big league-career for Twins, but now will pitch for Terrasvogels in the new season.
This year, she was 2-11 with one save and a 7.27 ERA for Twins.
She struckout eleven batters in 68 1/3 inning.
Offensively, she batted .194 (6-for-31) with three runs batted in.
...Femke Duffhues... | 
...Manon van Alebeek... | 
...Kelly De Lannoy... | 
...Mandy van Alebeek... |
| (© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) | (© Photos: Fred Versluis) |
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