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 Tex Town Tigers wins twice vs. Talent Team to remain in Play-Off race
Nederlands
 ENSCHEDE (Neth.) -
Tex Town Tigers won its double-header against the winless Talent Team Holland on Sunday (August 13) to remain in the race for the fourth and final spot in the Play-Offs.
Tex Town Tigers won 6-1 and 3-0.
With the victories, an all-deciding final weekend is set up.
Not only to decide who will be the fourth team to qualify for the Play-Offs, but also, which team will finish in sixth place.
With today's wins, Tex Town Tigers is now only two points (one game) behind fourth-placed Roef!, whom it will meet in its final double-header of the regular season on Saturday, September 2.
When TTT should win the first game, the second match-up will be decisive.
When Roef! wins the opener, it will reach the Play-Offs.
In case Tex Town Tigers should lose twice against Roef!, it can still end up in a tie with DSS, which probably means they will have to play an one-game play-off to decide fifth and sixth place.
To realize that, DSS has to win all four remaining games in the final weekend.
It meets Terrasvogels on September 2, then close the next day against the Talent Team Holland.
The team that finishes in sixth place has to play in the Promotion/Relegation Play-Offs, first playing an best-of-one Play-Off against the second-best team of the Silver League, which currently is Amsterdam Pirates.
The winner of that game advances to the Play-Off Final and meets the number one team of the Silver League, which currently is Hoofddorp Pioniers.
After this weekend, the season will be interrupted (again) for the upcoming European Cup Tournaments.
Dutch champion Oolders Omaco Sparks Haarlem and Terrasvogels will participate in the European Premiere Cup in Haarlem (Netherlands).
League-leader FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem and DSS wil travel to Italy for the Cup Winners Cup, which will be played in Caserta.
Both events will open on Monday, August 21 and close on Saturday, August 26.
Last year, Sparks Haarlem and Olympia Haarlem won the Premiere Cup and Cup Winners Cup, respectively.
(August 13)
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Talent Team Holland vs. Tex Town Tigers (game one)
In the opener, Tex Town Tigers initially trailed 1-0 after the first inning.
Talent Team-starter Roos-Marijn Kramer retired the side in the top of the first inning, then was supported with a run moments later.
In the bottom of the first inning, Yindi Beekveldt led off for the Talent Team with an infield-hit off of Lindsey Meadows, who went the distance for Tex Town Tigers.
She moved on a sacrifice bunt by Onaisha Franka, then scored on a double by Feline Poot.
With two outs, Charlotte Drijvers walked, but two runners were left behind when Meadows closed with a strikeout.
In the next two at bats, Tex Town Tigers got a runner on third base, but failed to score.
In the second inning, Lindsey Meadows (fielder's choice) was on first base with one out.
She then moved on a passed ball and a wild pitch, but stranded on third base.
In the third, Anna-Bè Bartels led off with a walk, moved on a sacrifice bunt and a grounder, but also was left behind on third base.
In the meantime, as a pitcher, Lindsey Meadows retired the side in the second and third inning, striking out three hitters.
When the top of the fourth inning began, the Talent Team still led 1-0, but Tex Town Tigers then rallied for five runs.
Annemiek Jansen led off with a single and Laura Wissink walked.
After the two had moved on a wild pitch, a force play was created by walking Lindsey Meadows intentionally.
With the bases now loaded, Nadine Marinus delivered a 2-run single to put TTT ahead, 2-1.
When Marinus stole second base, a throwing error followed, enabling Meadows also to score.
Hereafter, Jasmine Peters walked and TTT got runners on second and third base after a passed ball.
Marinus and Peters then respectively scored on a sacrifice fly by Anna-Bè Bartels and a single by Olivia Hornstein to make it a 5-1 score.
It also brought in new pitcher Nicole van Eijl.
In the remainder of the game, the Talent Team was held scoreless, while TTT added one more run.
That was scored in the top of the seventh.
Lead-off hitter Olivia Hornstein then reached on an error, moved on a grounder and a sacrifice bunt, then scored on a wild pitch.
In the fifth and seventh inning, the Talent Team got another runner in scoring position, but was unable to add more runs.
In the fifth, Lisa de Vries led off with an infield-hit, stole second base with one out, then reached third on a grounder, but was left behind.
In the seventh, Isa Smit led off with a single and advanced on a grounder.
Hereafter, Lindsey Meadows followed with a strikeout (her eighth in the game), then a grounder ended the game.
With that, Meadows won her tenth game of the season and became the second 10-game winner of the season.
A week ago, Ilona Andringa (FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem) had become the first one.
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| Talent Team Holland - Tex Town Tigers 1-6 (game 1) |
| R | H | E |
| Tex Town Tigers | 000 | 500 | 1 | - | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Talent Team Holland | 100 | 000 | 0 | - | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| pitcher Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lindsey Meadows, W (10-9) | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
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| pitchers Talent Team | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Roos-Marijn Kramer, L (0-4) | 3.1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
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| Nicole van Eijl | 3.2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - |
Umpires: HP-Patrick Reus, 1B-Martin Lemstra.
Official Scorer-Alex van den Berg.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Stefan Slinger.
Public Address Announcer-Jesse Maduro (Tex Town Tigers).
Scoreboard Operator-.
Starting Time-3:00 PM.
Time Played-1:46 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'De Kroedkotten', Enschede (site Tex Town Tigers).
Game Notes:
 Game played at the site of Tex Town Tigers in Enschede.
Weather conditions at game time: Partly cloudy, 21,1° C (70° F); wind direction north;
wind speed 11 kmh (6,8 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 61%. |
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Talent Team Holland vs. Tex Town Tigers (game two)
In the second game, Tex Town Tigers again decided the game in the fourth inning.
In the opener, the team trailed 1-0 after three at bats, this time, it broke a scoreless tie.
Lindsey Meadows again went the distance for Tex Town Tigers and won her eleventh game of the season.
With that, she equaled Ilona Andringa (FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem), who on Saturday won het eleventh game.
Meadows is 11-9, Andringa is 11-1.
In this game, Meadows struckout six batters to move into first place in this category.
She now has 127 strikeouts and passed Dagmar Bloeming (DSS), who is in second place with 122.
Micaela Whitney (Terrasvogels) and Mikayla Endicott (Roef!) are the other two pitchers this season with 100+ strikeouts.
Whitney is in third place with 115, Endicott is fourth with 107.
They also will remain the only four with 100 or more strikeouts, as fifth-placed Leonella Elizabeth (Oolders Omaco Sparks Haarlem) has 66.
Whitney and Endicott also follow Meadows and Andringa in the win-category.
Whitney is tied for third place with Rebecca Soumeru (Sparks Haarlem) with nine wins, while Endicott is tied for for fifth place with Dani Bonnet (Terrasvogels), who both has eight wins.
By the way, Bloeming (1.40), Bonnet (1.51), Whitney (1.94) and Meadows (2.03) also lead the league in ERA.
Andringa is in sixth place with 2.49, following Quincey Catsburg (DSS), who is fifth with a 2.44 ERA.
In today's second game, the Talent Team showed some fine defensive plays, including two double plays in the first two innings to support Lisa Hop, who went the distance.
In the top of the first inning, Olivia Hornstein led off with a single, then an error followed on a force play-grounder by Jasmine Peters.
The two moved on a sacrifice bunt by Annemiek Jansen, then the bases got loaded when Laura Wissink walked.
The inning ended when Lindsey Meadows grounded into a 1-2-3 double play.
In the second inning, Anna-Bè Bartels walked with one out, but hereafter, it was Aafje van Baal, who grounded into a double play.
The Talent Team got into scoring position in the second at bat.
Charlotte Drijvers led off with a double, but was unable to advance when next batter Isa Smit reached on a bunt-single.
Moments later, a double-steal attempt, but Drijvers was caught stealing at third base.
Smit later stranded on second base.
The Talent Team reached third base in the third inning.
With one out, Yindi Beekveldt reached on an infield-hit, moved on a sacrifice bunt by Onaisha Franka and a wild pitch, but also was left behind.
Tex Town Tigers then opened the score in the top of the fourth inning.
Laura Wissink led off with a walk and advanced on a passed ball, then scored on a following double by Lindsey Meadows.
TTT got runners at the corners, when Nadine Marinus singled.
While Marinus was caught stealing, Meadows scored the second run for the Enschede-team.
The Talent Team got into scoring position two more times in the remainder of the game.
In the fourth inning, Charlotte Drijvers walked with one out, moved on a grounder and reached third base on a wild pitch, but Lindsey Meadows then closed with a strikeout.
In the sixth, Rhowan Stuart singled, then Drijvers again walked, but this time Meadows also closed with a strikeout.
Tex Town Tigers added its third run in the seventh inning.
The team got the bases loaded with no outs, but scored only once, as the Talent Team made some good defensive plays.
Aafje van Baal led off with a walk, then her pinch-runner Kimberley Zehnder advanced on a wild pitch and next batter Myrthe Smid walked.
Everyone was safe on a fielder's choice-grounder by Olivia Hornstein that loaded the bases.
Another force play-grounder followed, this time hit by Jasmine Peters, which led to the elimination of Zehnder at the plate.
Moments later, Smid scored on a grounder by Annemiek Jansen, then another grounder ended the at bat.
In the bottom of the seventh, Lindsey Meadows retired the side to close her league-leading 15th complete game.
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| Talent Team Holland - Tex Town Tigers 0-3 (game 2) |
| R | H | E |
| Tex Town Tigers | 000 | 200 | 1 | - | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Talent Team Holland | 000 | 000 | 0 | - | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| pitcher Tex Town Tigers | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lindsey Meadows, W (11-9) | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
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| pitcher Talent Team | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lisa Hop, L (0-8) | 7 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
Umpires: HP-Martin Lemstra, 1B-Patrick Reus.
Official Scorer-Alex van den Berg.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Stefan Slinger.
Public Address Announcer-Jesse Maduro (Tex Town Tigers).
Scoreboard Operator-.
Starting Time-5:10 PM.
Time Played-1:43 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'De Kroedkotten', Enschede (site Tex Town Tigers).
Game Notes:
Game played at the site of Tex Town Tigers in Enschede.
Weather conditions at game time: Cloudy, 20,1° C (68,2° F); wind direction north;
wind speed 10 kmh (6,2 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 59%. |
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