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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Tex Town Tigers and Roef! again split
Nederlands
 ENSCHEDE (Neth.) -
Tex Town Tigers and Roef! split their double-header on Saturday (May 13).
Tex Town Tigers won the opener with a 9-6 score, then Roef! won the second game, 7-6.
For Tex Town Tigers, this was the fourth time this season it splits a double-header.
The team split its Opening Day-games against Oolders Omaco Sparks Haarlem and split another double-header against the reigning champion two weeks ago.
Last week, the team split against Terrasvogels.
Roef! has split two other double-headers against DSS and also against Sparks Haarlem.
In today's opener, Tex Town Tigers trailed 3-0 halfway the first inning, then took the lead, saw Roef! come alongside, but then hold onto a lead from the bottom of the fourth inning on.
In the second game, Roef! trailed after three innings, but then turned the game its way in the fourth by scoring three runs.
The team went on to take 7-3 lead, saw TTT come closer, but hold onto the lead to split the double-header.
(May 13)
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Tex Town Tigers vs. Roef! (game one)
In the opener, Roef! opened the score quickly, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning, but ended up empty-handed, losing 9-6.
In the top of the first, off of Lindsey Meadows, Roef! scored three runs with two outs.
The righthander hit lead-off hitter Wies Ligtvoet, who then stole second base and moved on a sacrifice bunt by Kim Donkers.
With two outs, she scored the first run on an infield-hit by Cindy van der Zanden.
After the latter had stolen second base, the bases got loaded when Eva van Knegsel and Manon van Alebeek both walked.
Two runs were added when Mikayla Endicott delivered a 2-run single.
In the bottom of the first inning, Endicott started for Roef! as picher, but gave up four runs.
Two of them were unearned, due to two errors.
In this game, the Roef!-defense committed six errors, which is the highest total this season for one team in a single game.
With one out, Annemiek Jansen singled and Nadine Marinus walked, who then advanced on a wild pitch.
Hereafter, the two were unable to advance on a infield-hit by Laura Wissink, which loaded the bases.
Lindsey Meadows followed with a 2-run single, which was followed by an outfield-error.
With two outs, the tying run was scored on a single by Aafje van Baal and when another outfield-error was made, TTT took a 4-3 lead.
Tex Town Tigers added a run in the third inning, thanks to another error.
With one out, Jasmine Peters (fielder's choice) advanced on a single by Aafje van Baal, then scored when a throwing error was made on a force play-grounder by Cheyenne Scheffer.
Mikayla Endicott closed the at bat with two strikeouts, but TTT now led 5-3.
In the top of the fourth, Roef! came alongside.
Mikayla Endicott and Naftely Pietersz began with singles and moved on a sac-bunt by Gini Ketelaars.
They respectively scored on a sac-fly by Wies Ligtvoet and a single by Kim Donkers to make it a 5-5 score.
Again, TTT reacted immediately and answered with two runs in the bottom of the fourth to re-take the lead.
With one out, Nadine Marinus walked and Laura Wissink singled to put runners at second and third base.
A grounder by Lindsey Meadows then ended in a throwing error and two runs.
Roef! got one run back in the fifth.
Cindy van der Zanden led off with a double and Eva van Knegsel singled.
When the latter stole second base, an error followed enabling Van der Zanden to score.
Tex Town Tigers added two insurance runs in the sixth inning when two more errors were made.
After lead-off hitter Annemiek Jansen had reached on an error, several defensive changes were made, including bringing Marjolein Merkx as new pitcher.
She gave up singles to Nadine Marinus and Laura Wissink, which loaded the bases.
A single by Lindsey Meadows and an error then accounted for the runs.
Merkx struckout the next two batters and a grounder ended the at bat, but TTT now led 9-6.
Lindsey Meadows encountered no problems in the top of the seventh to secure the lead.
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| Tex Town Tigers - Roef! 9-6 (game 1) |
| R | H | E |
| Roef! | 300 | 210 | 0 | - | 6 | 9 | 6 |
| Tex Town Tigers | 401 | 202 | X | - | 9 | 10 | 1 |
| pitchers Roef! | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Mikayla Endicott, L (2-4) | 5 (*) | 9 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
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| Marjolein Merkx | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | - |
| (*) - Endicott pitched to one batter in the sixth inning |
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| pitcher Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lindsey Meadows, W (5-3) | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 5 |
Umpires: HP-Martin Lemstra, 1B-Patrick Reus.
Official Scorer-Jeanette van Drunen.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Ingrid Oosterveld (Tex Town Tigers).
Public Address Announcer-Jesse Maduro.
Scoreboard Operator-.
Starting Time-3:00 PM.
Time Played-2:07 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'De Kroedkotten', Enschede.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 20,6° C (69,1° F); wind direction south-southwest;
wind speed 16 kmh (9,2 mph); wind force 3 Bft; humidity 59%. |
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Tex Town Tigers vs. Roef! (game two)
In the second game, Tex Town Tigers again faced an early deficit, but took a 2-1 lead in the third at bat.
But this time, it was Roef! that turned the game its way, as it led from the fourth inning on.
Roef! opened the score in the top of the first inning off of Anna-Bè Bartels.
With one out, Kim Donkers singled and scored when (former TTT-player) Isa Los followed with a triple.
After Roef! left a runner behind on third base in the top of the third inning, Tex Town Tigers scored twice in its third at bat off of starter Marjolein Merkx.
Myrthe Smid led off with a walk and Annemiek Jansen walked with one out.
Nadine Marinus then reached on an infield-hit, which was followed by a throwing error that led to the tying run.
The bases got loaded when Laura Wissink also walked.
Another walk followed, this time for Jasmine Peters to give TTT a 2-1 lead.
Hereafter, three runners were left behind when a flyout ended the inning.
Roef! answered with three runs on five hits with two outs in the top of the fourh to take over the lead again.
And this time for good.
With one out and Mikayla Endicott (fielder's choice) on first base, the bases got loaded when Manon van Alebeek (infield-hit) and Eva van Knegsel (bunt) both singled.
After an infield-fly, a single by Naftely Pietersz brought in the tying run.
With the bases still loaded, Lindsey Meadows took over the pitching, but Roef! then scored another run on a passed ball and a runscoring single by Wies Ligtvoet followed to make it a 5-3 score.
Pietersz also tried to score, but was eliminated at the plate, ending the inning.
TTT got one run back in the bottom of the fourth when Myrthe Smid tripled with one out and scored on a single by Olivia Hornstein.
Roef! took some more distance by scoring three runs with two outs in the sixth.
Manon van Alebeek led off with a single and Roef! then went from ten to nine players in its line-up.
Maureen van Poorten, who was listed in 10th position, was inserted as pinch-runner for designated player Van Alebeek and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Eva van Knegsel.
With two outs, pinch-hitter Ilse van Kerkoerle, Wies Ligtvoet and Kim Donkers hit back-to-back-to-back RBI-doubles to bring in three runs and made it a 7-3 score.
These runs were much needed, as TTT rallied for three runs of its own in the bottom of the sixth off of Mikayla Endicott, who had taken over the pitching during the previous inning.
With one out, Myrthe Smid and Olivia Hornstein singled and scored when Annemiek Jansen followed with a triple.
Moments later, Jansen scored on a grounder by Nadine Marinus to narrow the deficit to 7-6.
In the bottom of the seventh, Jasmine Peters reached second base on an error with one out, but was left behind.
And with that, Roef! won to split the double-header.
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| Tex Town Tigers - Roef! 6-7 (game 2) |
| R | H | E |
| Roef! | 100 | 303 | 0 | - | 7 | 14 | 2 |
| Tex Town Tigers | 002 | 103 | 0 | - | 6 | 7 | 1 |
| pitchers Roef! | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Marjolein Merkx, W (3-3) | 4.1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
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| Mikayla Endicott, SV (1) | 2.2 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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| pitchers Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Anna-Bè Bartels, L (1-1) | 3.2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
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| Lindsey Meadows | 3.1 | 3 | - | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Umpires: HP-Patrick Reus, 1B-Martin Lemstra.
Official Scorer-Jeanette van Drunen.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Ingrid Oosterveld (Tex Town Tigers).
Public Address Announcer-Jesse Maduro.
Scoreboard Operator-.
Starting Time-5:40 PM.
Time Played-1:58 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'De Kroedkotten', Enschede.
Game Notes:
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 20,7° C (69,3° F); wind direction west-southwest;
wind speed 14 kmh (8,2 mph); wind force 3 Bft; humidity 53%. |
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