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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photos by Henk Seppen & Marco Stoovelaar) Thursday-afternoon was to see the 6th series of double-headers in Golden League Nederlands HAARLEM / AMERSFOORT / ENSCHEDE (Neth.) - The sixth series of double-headers of the 2020 regular season in the Dutch Golden League was scheduled to be played this afternoon (Thursday, May 21). However, the softball-season is currently on hold, as all regular season-games have been annuled through June 30 because of measures taken against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. New dates have not yet been announced. (© Photo: Henk Seppen) From March 12 on, the Government of the Netherlands regularly announced several (stricter) measures due to the coronavirus. On Wednesday (May 6), there was another update regarding the measures and a little more freedom was announced then. But it was also announced that official games and competitions remain not possible through September 1. The latest update was last Tuesday (May 19). On Tuesday (May 12), the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Association (KNBSB) announced that it has annuled all official regular season games in all baseball/softball leagues through Tuesday, June 30. The KNBSB is in talks with the NOC*NSF (Netherlands Olympic Committee/Netherlands Sports Federations) regarding options how to continue, as it still hopes a new season can be played this year. So far, the games in the Golden League were scheduled for Saturday-afternoon. Today, the first games were played during the week, as it is Ascension Thursday. This day is annually used as a game-time. As this is a holiday, the games were scheduled to be played in the afternoon. ...Ben Goorts, Feiko Drost & Marco Stoovelaar... (© Photos: Marco Stoovelaar) Today would have seen a unique moment in Amersfoort, as the three senior recordholding Official Scorers would be together at the same site at the same time. Feiko Drost, Ben Goorts and Marco Stoovelaar are the most experienced scorers in Dutch baseball and softball. The three are active now for 44 (consecutive) seasons (including this year) and are the recordholders in this category. This year, they also became the first Official Scorers to now have been active in six decades after making their debut in 1977. Except when they are assigned to work at the same tournament, it is rarely that the three are together at the same site for a regular season-game, as only two scorers are assigned for games in the highest Dutch baseball- and softball-leagues. Today, Drost was assigned for the baseball-game of Quick Amersfoort against Curaçao Neptunus, while Goorts and Stoovelaar were the Official Scorers for the softball double-header between Quick Amersfoort and Sparks Haarlem. The fourth scorer today, joining Drost at the baseball-game, also was to be a veteran scorer, as that would have been Linda Steijger, who in April returned at Umpiring Commissioner. We don't know when, but softball and baseball of course also will be back in the Netherlands! Of course only when it is safe to do so for everyone involved. Until then, take care and stay safe! Today, was the sunniest day so far with temperatures varying from 24 to 26 degrees Celsius (75,2-78,8 F) at game-times. Beneath are the games that were scheduled to be played today with the assignments of the game-officials. (May 21)

Game 1: Terrasvogels - Amsterdam Pirates postponed R H E Amsterdam Pirates - 0 0 0 Terrasvogels - 0 0 0 pitchers Pirates inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Terrasvogels inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Daniel Bouman, 1B-Bianca Dweelaard. Assigned Official Scorer-Huub Nelissen. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Karin Pieneman (Terrasvogels). Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-2:00 PM. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-Van der Aartsportpark, Haarlem (site Onze Gezellen). Game Notes: Game 1 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 23,7° C (74,7° F); wind direction southeast; wind speed 10 kmh (6,2 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 42%.

Game 2: Terrasvogels - Amsterdam Pirates postponed R H E Amsterdam Pirates - 0 0 0 Terrasvogels - 0 0 0 pitchers Pirates inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Terrasvogels inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Bianca Dweelaard, 1B-Daniel Bouman. Assigned Official Scorer-Huub Nelissen. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Karin Pieneman (Terrasvogels). Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-30 minutes after completion of Game 1. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-Van der Aartsportpark, Haarlem (site Onze Gezellen). Game Notes: Game 2 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 25° C (77° F); wind direction southeast; wind speed 11 kmh (6,8 mph); wind force 3 Bft; humidity 40%.

Game 1: Olympia Haarlem - Hoofddorp Pioniers postponed R H E Hoofddorp Pioniers - 0 0 0 Olympia Haarlem - 0 0 0 pitchers Pioniers inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Olympia Haarlem inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Louis Rohan, 1B-Britt Nielandt. Assigned Official Scorer-Stefan Slinger. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Robert Meijboom (Olympia Haarlem). Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-2:00 PM. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-Nol Houtkamp Sportpark, Haarlem. Game Notes: Game 1 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 23,7° C (74,7° F); wind direction southeast; wind speed 10 kmh (6,2 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 42%.

Game 2: Olympia Haarlem - Hoofddorp Pioniers postponed R H E Hoofddorp Pioniers - 0 0 0 Olympia Haarlem - 0 0 0 pitchers Pioniers inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Olympia Haarlem inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Britt Nielandt, 1B-Louis Rohan. Assigned Official Scorer-Stefan Slinger. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Huub Rustman (Olympia Haarlem). Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-30 minutes after completion of Game 1. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-Nol Houtkamp Sportpark, Haarlem. Game Notes: Game 2 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 25° C (77° F); wind direction southeast; wind speed 11 kmh (6,8 mph); wind force 3 Bft; humidity 40%.

Game 1: Quick Amersfoort - Sparks Haarlem postponed R H E Sparks Haarlem - 0 0 0 Quick Amersfoort - 0 0 0 pitchers Sparks Haarlem inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Quick inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Bob Gieskens, 1B-Mariana Prins. Assigned Official Scorer-Marco Stoovelaar. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Ben Goorts. Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-2:00 PM. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-XL Lease Park 'Dorrestein', Amersfoort. Game Notes: Game 1 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 24,2° C (75,6° F); wind direction south; wind speed 10 kmh (6,2 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 34%.

Game 2: Quick Amersfoort - Sparks Haarlem postponed R H E Sparks Haarlem - 0 0 0 Quick Amersfoort - 0 0 0 pitchers Sparks Haarlem inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Quick inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Mariana Prins, 1B-Bob Gieskens. Assigned Official Scorer-Marco Stoovelaar. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Ben Goorts. Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-30 minutes after completion of Game 1. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-XL Lease Park 'Dorrestein', Amersfoort. Game Notes: Game 2 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 25,3° C (77,5° F); wind direction southeast; wind speed 11 kmh (6,8 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 37%.

Game 1: Tex Town Tigers - Roef! postponed R H E Roef! - 0 0 0 Tex Town Tigers - 0 0 0 pitchers Roef! inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Tex Town Tigers inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Arjan de Wever, 1B-Gerrit-Jan van der Hoeven. Assigned Official Scorer-Dieks Bannink. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Ingrid Oosterveld (Tex Town Tigers). Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-3:00 PM. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-Sportpark 'De Kroedkotten', Enschede. Game Notes: Game 1 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 24,2° C (75,6° F); wind direction southeast; wind speed 8 kmh (4,9 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 36%.

Game 2: Tex Town Tigers - Roef! postponed R H E Roef! - 0 0 0 Tex Town Tigers - 0 0 0 pitchers Roef! inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - pitchers Tex Town Tigers inn. SO BB H R ER - - - - - - Standings Scores Schedule Team Rosters Assigned Umpires: HP-Gerrit-Jan van der Hoeven, 1B-Arjan de Wever. Assigned Official Scorer-Dieks Bannink. Assigned Play-by-Play Scorer-Ingrid Oosterveld (Tex Town Tigers). Public Address Announcer-. Scoreboard Operator-. Scheduled Starting Time-30 minutes after completion of Game 1. Time Played-0:00 hrs. Site-Sportpark 'De Kroedkotten', Enschede. Game Notes: Game 2 of double-header. Following an announcement by the Dutch Governement on April 21 to extend measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the game was cancelled on April 29 by the KNBSB, which on that date annulled all games through June 9 to give the teams a new three-week preparation for an eventual start of the season. No new date has been announced yet. Weather conditions at game time: Sunny, 25,8° C (78,4° F); wind direction south-southwest; wind speed 6 kmh (3,7 mph); wind force 2 Bft; humidity 32%.

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