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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo by Rein Merkx)
 Roef! records two big wins against Talent Team
Nederlands
 MOERGESTEL (Neth.) -
Roef! won 11-3 and 12-2 against the Talent Team Holland on Sunday (July 16) to record two big wins.
The opener was a long game that lasted almost 2½ hours.
Roef! led only 4-3 after three innings, but then started to take more distance.
The team collected 11 basehits, including three by Naftely Pietersz.
In the second game, Roef! reached a 10-run difference after four innings, but that game also took one hour and 47 minutes to complete.
With that, the teams stepped off the field close to 7 PM after having started the opener at 2 PM!
In this game, Roef! hit 10 basehits, including three by Manoa Weijgertse, who batted in four runs.
Coming week, the Talent Team will travel to Florida (USA) to participate as the Netherlands National Junior Team in the World Championship.
The team will play its next games in the regular season on August 6.
(July 15)
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Talent Team Holland vs. Roef! (game one)
In the opener, Roef! collected eleven basehits, including three by Naftely Pietersz (one double), who scored twice and batted in two runs.
Both teams scored once in the first inning.
In the top of the first inning, Manoa Weijgertse walked with two outs for Roef!.
She advanced on a wild pitch, stole third base and scored on a single by Isa Los.
The Talent Team came alongside in its first at bat.
Yindi Beekveldt then singled with one out, moved on an error, stole third base and scored the tying run on a grounder by Feline Poot.
Roef! re-took the lead in the second inning when Naftely Pietersz led off with a double and scored on a 2-out triple by Wies Ligtvoet.
The team took some more distance in the third inning, adding two runs.
With two outs, Isa Los and Eva van Knegsel both singled.
After the two had executed a double-steal, both scored on a single by Naftely Pietersz to make it a 4-1 score.
...Naftely Pietersz...
...3 basehits, double...
...2 runs, 2 RBI's...
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But in the bottom of the third inning, the Talent Team narrowed the deficit to 4-3.
Lead-off hitter Ismay Poot was hit by a pitch, then Onaisha Franka reached on a bunt-single.
After the two moved on a sacrifice bunt, Ismay then scored on a sacfrifice fly from her sister Feline Poot.
Moments later, the next run was scored when Uchenna Jong Loy reached on an error.
From the fourth inning on, Roef! held the Talent Team scoreless, while adding seven more runs itself.
In the fourth, Wies Ligtvoet reached on an error and later scored on another error.
In the next at bat, another run was scored when Isa Los led off with a walk and later scored on a wild pitch.
In the sixth, Roef! scored three more runs to increase the lead to 9-3.
With the bases loaded and no outs, the first run was scored when Manoa Weijgertse walked.
Kim Donkers followed with a runscoring single, then the next run was added on a force play-grounder by Isa Los.
The inning ended with a double play.
With runners on second and third base, 3B Tammie Lijbers forced out the runner on third base, then got the ball in time to 1B Charlotte Drijvers to complete the double play.
A 2-run double by Charlotte Haen lifted the lead to 11-3 in the top of the seventh inning.
Mikayla Endicott pitched the bottom of the seventh inning for Roef! and retired the side to end the long game that took almost 2½ hours to complete.
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| Talent Team Holland - Roef! 3-11 (game 1) |
| R | H | E |
| Roef! | 112 | 113 | 2 | - | 11 | 11 | 2 |
| Talent Team Holland | 102 | 000 | 0 | - | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| pitchers Roef! | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Marjolein Merkx, W (5-6) | 4.1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 1 |
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| Gini Ketelaars, H (1) | 1.2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
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| Mikayla Endicott | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
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| pitchers Talent Team | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Lisa Hop, L (0-5) | 2.2 | - | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
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| Daniëlle ten Donkelaar | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
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| Nicole van Eijl | 2.1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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Umpires: HP-Patrick Reus, 1B-Arjan de Wever.
Official Scorer-Brigitta Zaal.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Jeanette van Drunen.
Public Address Announcer-Rieke Dirks.
Scoreboard Operator-.
Starting Time-2:00 PM.
Time Played-2:25 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'Stokeind', Moergestel.
Game Notes:
 Game played at the site of Roef! in Moergestel.
Weather conditions at game time: Partly cloudy, 21,5° C (70,7° F); wind direction southwest;
wind speed 16 kmh (9,2 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 78%. |
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Talent Team Holland vs. Roef! (game two)
Roef! took an early 3-0 lead in the first inning, but the Talent Team initially came back again, just as in the first game.
But from the second inning on, Roef! kept on scoring and finished the game via the mercy-rule.
In the top of the first inning, Roef! scored three runs.
Wies Ligtvoet led off with a single, stole second base, moved on a sacrifice bunt by Cindy van der Zanden and scored the first run on a single by Manoa Weijgertse.
Runscoring singles by Isa Los and Naftely Pietersz lifted the lead to 3-0 later in the at bat.
The Talent Team got two runs back in its first at bat.
The bases got loaded quickly when Onaisha Franka led off with a single, Yindi Beekveldt reached on a bunt-single and Charlotte Drijvers walked.
With two outs, two runs were scored on a single by Rhowan Stuart, but that were to be the only runs the Talent Team scored in this game.
Roef! took more distance via a 4-run rally in the second inning.
With one out, the bases got loaded when Wies Ligtvoet (stolen base, wild pitch) singled and Cindy van der Zanden (stolen base) and Manoa Weijgertse both walked.
Hereafter, Kim Donkers followed with a 2-run single and Isa Los added a runscoring single.
With the bases still loaded, another run was scored when Sophie Mollee walked to make it a 7-2 score.
In the third, a single by Manoa Weijgertse and a sacrifice fly by Isa Los lifted the lead to 9-2.
The 10-run difference was reached in the fourth inning when Roef! scored three more runs.
With two outs, a run was scored when Cindy van der Zanden reached on an error and Manoa Weijgertse then followed with a 2-run double to make it a 12-2 score.
In this game, Roef! recorded ten basehits, including three by Manoa Weijgertse, who batted in four runs.
Wies Ligtvoet and Cindy van der Zanden both scored three runs.
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| Talent Team Holland - Roef! 2-12 (4 inn.) (game 2) |
| R | H | E |
| Roef! | 342 | 3 | | - | 12 | 10 | 1 |
| Talent Team Holland | 200 | 0 | | - | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| pitchers Roef! | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Mikayla Endicott, W (5-8) | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
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| Gini Ketelaars | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
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| pitchers Talent Team | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Roos-Marijn Kramer, L (0-3) | 1.1 | - | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
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| Nicole van Eijl | 0.1 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
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| Lisa Hop | 1.2 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | - |
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| Daniëlle ten Donkelaar | 0.2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Umpires: HP-Arjan de Wever, 1B-Patrick Reus.
Official Scorer-Brigitta Zaal.
Play-by-Play Scorer-Jeanette van Drunen.
Public Address Announcer-Rieke Dirks.
Scoreboard Operator-.
Starting Time-5:01 PM.
Time Played-1:47 hrs.
Site-Sportpark 'Stokeind', Moergestel.
Game Notes:
Game played at the site of Roef! in Moergestel.
Weather conditions at game time: Partly cloudy, 21,8° C (71,2° F); wind direction west;
wind speed 16 kmh (9,2 mph); wind force 3 Bft; humidity 76%. |
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