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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photos by Fred Versluis)
    Third win Netherlands Softball Team; Fourth game rains out
Nederlands
  ŻORY (Poland) / OSTRAVA (Czech Rep.) -
The Netherlands Softball Team shutout Poland 10-0 to start Day 2 of the 21st European Championship on Monday (July 1).
In the evening, the Orange-squad started its fourth game of the event against Russia.
However, that game was halted in the second inning due to rain and lightning with the Dutch Team leading 3-0.
The Netherlands Team played its first game today in the Polish city of Ż, where it also played its games on Sunday.
Two pitchers threw a combined Perfect Game for the second day in a row.
Hereafter, the team traveled back to Ostrava in the Czech Republic for the evening-game.
However, in the afternoon, the schedule was interrupted due rain- and thundershowers.
Some games were postponed and started later.
The Netherlands started its game against Russia more than two hours later than scheduled.
But a new rainshower interrupted the game in the second inning and was then definitively halted.
On Tuesday, the Netherlands again will travel to Poland, but this time to Rybnik.
There, the team meets Denmark at 10 AM.
The team will stay in Rybnik, as the remainder of the game against Russia will then be played at 2:15 PM.
With that, the Preliminary Round will be closed.
The Orange squad then returns again to Ostrava where it will play its first game in the Second Round in the evening.
When the team finishes in first place in Pool C, it will play at 8:45 PM and then might meet Italy.
In case the team ends in second place, it will play at 6:30 PM.
(July 1)
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Netherlands vs. Poland
Dutch pitchers Ginger de Weert and Mariëlle Vleugels threw the second Perfect Game in two days.
On Sunday, Vleugels closed the first one in relief of Ilona Andringa against Hungary.
Today, De Weert struckout six batters in the first three innings.
Vleugels then added a strikeout in the fourth and final inning of this game.
In the top of the second inning, with one out, Polish 3B Emma Wójcik made good contact on a delivery from De Weert.
However, her line drive was caught by Mariëlle Vleugels, who then played at first base.
Wójcik and Vleugels are teammates at Dutch reigning champion FysioExpert Olympia Haarlem in the Dutch Golden League.
Wójcik plays in the highest Dutch league since 2017.
The Netherlands opened the score with two runs in the first inning.
Britt Vonk led off with a bunt-single, stole second base, then scored on a double by Wies Ligtvoet.
With one out, Ligtvoet scored the next run on a grounder by Mariëlle Vleugels.
On the hot afternoon, the Orange-squad added three runs in the second at bat.
Virginie Anneveld led off with a single, then advanced on a wild pitch and a single by Karin Tuk.
With one out, Anneveld scored on a wild pitch.
Hereafter, an error was made on a grounder by Chantal Versluis, which enabled Tuk to score.
Moments later, Versluis also scored on a wild pitch.
The lead was lifted to 7-0 by scoring twice with two outs in the third inning.
This time, Damishah Charles led off with a single.
With two outs, she scored on a double by Virginie Anneveld.
The bases then got loaded when Karin Tuk and (after a pitching change) Cindy van der Zanden both walked.
The seventh run was scored when Chantal Versluis was hit by a pitch, but the team also left three runners behind.
The game was shortened with another inning when the Netherlands reached the 10-run difference in the bottom of the fourth.
Wies Ligtvoet led off with a walk and scored on an one-out double by Mariëlle Vleugels.
Her pinch-runner Jessie van Aalst scored when next batter Laura Wissink also doubled.
With two outs, Wissink's temporary runner Suka Van Gurp scored the tenth run on a walk-off wild pitch.
The following players played in this game:
Britt Vonk (SS/3B, 1-for-3), Wies Ligtvoet (LF, 1-for-2), Damishah Charles (2B, 1-for-3), Mariëlle Vleugels (1B/RP, 1-for-3), Jessie van Aalst (PR, 0-for-0), Laura Wissink (DP/C, 1-for-3), Virginie Anneveld (3B, 2-for-2), Suka Van Gurp (SS, 0-for-1), Karin Tuk (C/1B, 1-for-1), Cindy van der Zanden (RF, 0-for-1), Chantal Versluis (CF, 0-for-1), Ginger de Weert (SP).
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...Left: Umpires Ákos Farkas (Hungary), Nicolas Roux (France) and Loretta Lamieri (Italy)...
...Right: The players of the Netherlands Team listen to the National Anthems... |
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...Left: Britt Vonk steals second base in the first inning...
...Right: Mariëlle Vleugels bats in the 2nd run in the 1st inning; She hit an RBI-double in the 4th... |
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| ...Damishah Charles (left) steals 2nd base in the 3rd inning, then scores on a double by Virginie Anneveld... |
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| ...Britt Vonk (left) was 1-for-3, while Laura Wissink (right) hit a runscoring double in the 4th inning... |
...Suka Van Gurp (as temporary runner) scores the 10th run in the 4th inning...
(© All Photos: Fred Versluis) |
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| Netherlands - Poland 10-0 (4 inn.) |
| R | H | E |
| Poland | 000 | 0 | | - | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 232 | 3 | | - | 10 | 8 | 0 |
| (two outs when 10-run difference was reached in the fourth inning) |
| pitchers Poland | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Camille Czarnecki, L (0-1) | 2.2 | - | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
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| Klaudia Rudyk | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
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| pitchers Netherlands | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Ginger de Weert, W (1-0) | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - |
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| Mariëlle Vleugels | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| (Ginger de Weert and Mariëlle Vleugels throw a combined Perfect Game) |
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...The game was halted in the 2nd inning...
(© Photo: Fred Versluis) |
Netherlands vs. Russia
Due to the late start because of rain of the game between Great Britain and Croatia at Field #1 in Ostrava, the game of the Netherlands against Russia started two hours and ten minutes later than scheduled.
The Orange Team scored three unearned runs with two outs in the bottom of the first inning.
Britt Vonk led off with a walk and moved on a wild pitch.
With one out, she reached third base on a passed ball, then scored on a 2-out single by Maxime van Dalen.
She scored the second run when a fly into the outfield by Jessie van Aalst ended in an error.
Moments later, Van Aalst scored on a wild pitch.
With two outs in the second inning, Damishah Charles hit a triple.
Shortly thereafter, the game was interrupted by rain, then halted by lightning.
Dutch pitcher Ilona Andringa gave up no basehits in the two innings she threw.
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...Left: Umpires Britt Nielandt (Belgium), Daryl Helmer (Canada) and Benjamin Milgrom (France)...
...Right: The coaches of both teams meet the umpires before the game...
...Left to right: Russian Coaches André Prins (also Consultant) and Maria Kazantseva,...
...Netherlands Head Coach Connie Clark and Home Plate Umpire Daryl Helmer... |
...The players of the Netherlands Team sing the National Anthem...
...Left to right: Dinet Oosting, Maxime van Dalen, Laura Wissink, Eva Voortman, Wies Ligtvoet, Jessie van Aalst,...
...Mariëlle Vleugels, Ilona Andringa, Cindy van der Zanden, Chantal Versluis and Damishah Charles... |
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...Left: Cobus Oosting, the play-by-play announcer for SDTV, makes notes during the game...
...Right: Ilona Andringa was the starting pitcher for the Netherlands... |
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...Maxime van Dalen (left) and Jessie van Aalst make contact in the first inning...
...Van Dalen hits an RBI-single, while Van Aalst's fly into the outfield ends in a runscoring error...
(© All Photos: Fred Versluis) |
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| Netherlands - Russia halted, rain/lightning |
| R | H | E |
| Russia | 00 | | | - | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 30 | | | - | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| pitcher Russia | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Nina Zakaznikova | 1.2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - |
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| pitcher Netherlands | inn. | SO | BB | H | R | ER |
| Ilona Andringa | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
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