News about Eurobaseball'07

16/09/07 Netherlands, Great Britain and Spain, top positions from the 30th European Baseball Champ.

Tonight the last match of the 30th European Baseballship was played at the Barcelona Baseball Stadium Carlos Pérez de Rozas, with the victory of Netherlands that have demostrated to be the strongest team, invinicible in the tournament that was played in the Stadiums of Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi de  Llobregat.

The competition’s last game, Sweden agains Spain, finished with victory for the hosting country, 5 to 8. Spain repeats the 3rd place achieved in Praga 2 years ago and this was the best competition since  1955, when it got on top of the podium.
The triumph of the Dutch team, its 5th consecutive and the 20th award in the continental competition, is also the passport for Beijing and the Olympic Games 2008, that will also be the last, for now, for baseball as an Olympic sport
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16/09/07 Netherlands defeats Great Britain and wins the European Championship

This morning the Dutch team defeated the British in 1st match of the 3 that will be played on the last day of the European Baseball Championship that has been played in Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi since the 7th of September.

The match between Netherlands and Great Britain ended in 6-1 thus confirming the Dutch 5th consecutive European Championship and is qualified for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
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15/09/07 9th Day’s winners were Germany, France and Netherlands

When there is but one day left of the final round of the European Baseball Championship, that ends on Sunday 16th of September, Netherlands is still the leader of the tournament.

During the last match of the 9th day, which was played in Viladecans, Spain tried and almost achieved the big surprise. But, after a game that lasted 4 hours and 43 minutes, the Spanish players lost by 8 to 10 against a Dutch team that continues the path towards its consecutive 5th title as European Baseball Champion.
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14/09/07 Day 8: Victories for Netherlands, Great Britain and Spain

The first day of the final round of the European Baseball Championship, that is taking place in Barcelona, Spain, was filled with exciting moments.
Netherlands kept following their path in the tournament with an expected supremacy, just as today’s victory over France, by 18 to 9, show. And so do the statistics: from the 6 matches played, 5 ended prematurely by difference.
The morning’s 2nd match, played in Viladecans, almost offered a surprise but, finally, logic arrived 7. But the British team had to wait until the last inning in order to go ahead with a match that, until the end of the 6th inning, favored the Swedes.
Spain, on the other hand, clearly showed that the hosting country can put up a fight and be superior to any other European team. Today’s match, defeating Germany by 3-11, shows that the Spaniards will go ahead strongly.
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13/09/07 Conclusions 7TH Day

The 7th day has also been the final day for some of the 12 participating teams in the European Baseball Championship that is being disputed in Barcelona, Spain.
Italy, initially one of the favorite teams, defeated the Czech Republic and is positioned on the 7th position.
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Netherlands, Germany and Sweden Group A and Great Britain, Spain and France Group B will be in the final tour of the European Baseball Championship

Netherlands qualifies in the 1st position of Group A as the only team that has not been defeated in the European Baseball Championship, that is being played in Spanish cities Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi until September 16th.
Germany that won against the Czech Republic had 4 victories and the 2nd position and Sweden also got another triumph over Austria and, with 3 successful matches, got the 3rd position in its group.
In Group B, the qualification has been tightly disputed. Both Great Britain and Spain have achieved 4 victories while France and Spain have 3 each.
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12/09/07 Morning: Great Britain, Germany and Spain win

The morning session in the European Baseball Championship finished with no surprises.
In group 'A' Germany did the same to the Czech Republic (6-1) and that result makes it possible for Sweden to continue in the classification if Austria continues without winning any match.
If all predictions are right, Netherlands, Germany and Sweden will dispute the final round as Group ‘A’.
Group 'B' is also decided: Great Britain, France and Spain will be in the final round.
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11/09/07 5th day Spain, Great Britain, Netherlands and Germany

Spain, Great Britain and France, in Group B, as well as Netherlands and Germany, in Group A, have qualified, mathematically, for the final round in the European Baseball Championship, while the last of the positions will go to one of the two teams in Group A: Sweden or the Czech Republic.
The baseball stadium in Viladecans had more public than seats and the ceremonial 1st pitch was made by Hamilton Richardson, former general manager for Netherlands and Spain. This was a match to make history, not only because it is a step further in the fight for the title but also because it left out Italy of competition, a team that was, together with Netherlands, is the one that has won most Continental Championships. It was a brilliant match for Jake Molina’s team, that made 5 runs to 4.
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During the morning’s matches at Eurobaseball the attention was centered on the B group. France that is strongly leading with 3 victories out of 3 matches and Great Britain, the 2nd qualified. The French team, that didn’t manage to stay undefeated, lost out to an English team that set the score to 0-3 in the first inning.
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The fourth day of the European Baseball  Championship experienced a day of transition, while everybody waits for tomorrow, when the positions will be more evident.
In Group A the favourites won: Netherlands, Czech Republic and Germany. Their defeated rivals were: Sweden (14-2), Austria (6-2) and Croatia (8-7).
In Group B the fight for the qualification is still open, with France ahead of the rest, invincible after 3 matches upon winning today, over Ukraine (6-2
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During the third day of the European Baseball Championship two matches were special: Spain defeated Ukraine by 5-4 and Italy lost 1-5 against France.
The Spanish selection almost lost its match against Ukraine, one of the most attainable among the 12 participants, while the Italians, one of the favorites, lost against a French team that is growing at an amazing speed.
Spain’s coach, Jake Molina, had adviced, before the start of the tournament: "Watch out for Great Britain, France and Germany” and he turned out to be right for now because the 3 teams, after playing 2 matches each, are still unbeaten.
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Spain-Ukraine (5-4) was, for sure, the most interesting match this morning during the European Baseball Championship. The Spanish team lost its first match against Great Britain and today had to change a negative result of 1 to 4 in 4 innings with 4 runs in the 8th inning. Spain’s coach Jake Molina.stated: “We won, that’s what is important and we still have options for the next round. In the first match the pitches failed, but today Remigio Leal was great”.
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The morning of the second day of the European Baseball Championship finished with the victory of the favorite teams, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic.
On the diamond Carlos Pérez de Rozas in Barcelona, Italy, one of the favorites for the final victory and the qualification for the upcoming Olympics in Beijing 2008 easily defeated its rival, Ukraine, with a convincing 0-13, a scoreboard that, with a difference of more than 10 runs, finished the match upon the end of the 8th inning.

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The ceremony was presided by Martin Miller, President of the Confederation of European Baseball and, among other authorities, Anna Pruna, General Secretary of Sports in the Generalitat; the Delegate of Barcelona City Council’s Sports’ Department; Sr. Pere Alcober; Josep Monràs, Deputy of Sports in Diputación of Barcelona, Josep Ballester , President of the Catalan Baseball and Softball Federation and Pepita Miret, Sports Manager  Viladecans City Council attended the ceremony.

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Spain played today the last of the preparing matches before the European Baseball Championship that will take place, from Friday 7^th, on the fields located in Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi. Today the rivalling team was the powerful Dutch that won over the Spanish team with 0 runs to 5.
Spain couldn’t win over a rival that was superior, with 10 basehits while Jake Molina’s offence only scored two.
The coach made his last trials on the mount where he put up to six pitchers, starting the game with Eric González  who was followed by Joel Hernández, Miguel Rizo, Remigio Leal, Rheiner Cruz and Fernando Gutiérrez.
The Netherlands decided the match in the third inning when 2 runs were achieved that were increased with another one in the 6th inning and 2 more that closed the match.
The Dutch team has a list of 19 victories in the 29 European Championships it has disputed and 7 silver medals while Spain, who won in 1955, also has achieved 1 silver and 11 bronze medals.
The match was celebrated on the diamond Torre Roja in the city of Viladecans that will be one of the locations of the Eurobaseball matches.

03/09/07 Spain and Netherlands will play a preparing match for Eurobaseball tomorrow, in Viladecans

It can be seen as an advanced final
The match will take place at 18:00 en el Campo Municipal de Viladecans
The Spanish baseball team will meet the Dutch selection tomorrow, Tuesday September 4^th in Viladecans as a part of the preparation for the European Baseball Championship, Eurobaseball, that will take place in Barcelona between the 7^th and the 16th of September. This match will allow the two teams to measure their options and fitness.
 

Scorers team with Pablo Carpio

Series UCLA Results  Spain individual   Spain cumulative  UCLA cumulative

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02/09/07 SPAIN LOOSES ITS FIFTH MATCH AGAINTS UCLA

The last test before Eurobaseball will be on Tuesday, in Viladecans, against the powerful Netherlands

Spain lost 6 to 2 against UCLA, in the fifth and last of the matches in the preparation series, with the American team, before Eurobaseball 2007 that will take place in Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi (Spain) from the 7^th through the 16^th of September.
Key to the match and, therefore, to the Spanish defeat, was when, in the seventh inning Manuel  Olivera lost two bases due to balls because the bases were occupied and that helped the university team score 2 and getting in front of the scoreboard with 1-4.
The several tries by the Spanish team’s coach, Jake Molina -who replaced Olivera with Miguel Rizo and, two innings later, with Fernando Gutiérrez-  only achieved to reduce the difference for a moment: in the eighth inning (2-5). In the last inning UCLA scored again and thus established the final result.
It’s important to highlight the home run by UCLA’s receptor, Matt Schwenke, in the second inning, that allowed the first score of the Californian team and victory of the match.
Spain will now finish the preparing matches on Tuesday, in Viladecans, at 18:00 against Netherlands, one of the favorites to conquer Europe.

The Spanish baseball team lost 3-2 to the UCLA students in the fourth match, in a series of five, against the Californian team, as a preparation before Eurobaseball 2007, that will take place on the diamonds in the Spanish fields located in Barcelona, Viladecans and  Sant Boi.
An error made by Spanish pitcher Remigio Leal, in the eighth inning, when the scoreboard showed an equalizer of 2 runs, which made the umpire consider that he’d tried to cheat UCLA’s batter, favoured a run that gave the final victory to the Americans.
Today, on the contrary of the three former matches, the defences imposed themselves on the attackers. Outstanding was the connected home run by Tim Stewart that became the first score by UCLA who, until that moment, lost 0-2, with Spanish runs in the fifth and the seventh innings.
Spain finally showed better numbers than its rivals with 9 good hits and only 1 error while the team from California connected 6 hits and made 3 errors.
The Spanish manager J. Molina selected, for the start on the Catalan mount, the Catalan player Xavi Civit who pitched seven entries and was then replaced by Remigio Leal.
Tomorrow, Sunday, the fifth and last match against UCLA will be played in Montjuic (Barcelona, Spain) and on Tuesday the preparing matches will end, in Viladecans, with an interesting Spain-Netherlands.

When there is only one week left before the opening of the European Baseball Championship, Eurobaseball 2007, that will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from the 7th to the 16th of September, today there was an official presentation that was held in the Colet Museum, the General Secretary of Sports from Catalonia’s Generalitat, Ms. Anna Pruna, who said, among other things, “that Catalonia has a long tradition in baseball and the Catalan Baseball Federation is Spain’s oldest and we are sure that this competition will help to increase the interest for this sport”.
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The Spanish baseball team won with 11 runs against 4 in the match against the American university players from UCLA. This was the fifth match, the third against the Americans, of a series of preparation matches before Eurobaseball 2007, that will take place in Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi (Spain) from the 7th through the 16th of September.
The Spanish ninth started out badly, 0-2, thanks to a 'home run', by UCLA, connected by Tono Cappuchilli. The Spaniards showed to do very well in the attack. Alejandro Freire who promoted a 'home run', in the fourth entry, made 3 runs that were key for the match (7-2). Angel Carmona and Miguel Mora, were, together with Freire, the most important in the Spanish team, that keeps improving from day to day. Important were also the 13 connected hits of the Spanish ninth that made 3 errors while the Americans finished the 9 hits and 2 errors. Joel Hernández was the winning pitcher who 9 allowed hits, 3 bases by balls and 7 struck outs, and was replaced in the seventh by Miguel A. Rizo while the loser was Chris Sherman.
Spain will play the fourth match against UCLA tomorrow, Saturday, on the Montjuic diamond in Barcelona.

The Spanish baseball team defeated the University team from UCLA (USA) by 11 runs to 7,  in the fourth preparing match before Eurobaseball 2007, the European Baseball Championship, that will take place in Barcelona, Viladecans and Sant Boi (Spain) from the 7th through the 16th of September.
The ninth, trained by Jake Molina, that yesterday lost their first match against the Americans, showed today their progression overcoming a fatal beginning, when UCLA scored  4 in the match’s first 10 minutes. The Spanish team, that didn’t manage to score in the first entry, woke up for the second and left the scoreboard with a minimum difference. During the following four entries, Spain showed to be clearly superior with partial results of 4-0, 1-0, 2-0 and 1-0, thus achieving a difference that finally was enough for the victory, though the rivals reacted scoring 0-3 in the eighth entry.
The American trainer of the Spanish team placed five pitchers on the mound, opening with Eric Gonzalez followed by Remigio Leal, Miguel A Rizo, Xavier Civit and Fernando Gutiérrez. In the Spanish attack Juan García imposed the runs that put Spain ahead on the scoreboard

The Spanish Baseball Team, that has been on training camp since August 15th in Barcelona, continues to prepare for the upcoming European Baseball Championship that will take place in Barcelona between the 7th and the 16th of  September. Next week there will be five matches between the American team from UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, that will take place on the fields in Barcelona –Montjuic- and nearby Viladecans.
 
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 Tuesday, August 28th, 18:30, Montjuïc
 Wednesday, August 29th, 18:30, Viladecans
 Friday, August 31st, 18:30, Viladecans
 Saturday, September 1st, 18:30, Montjuïc
 Sunday, September 2nd 12:30, Montjuïc

During the games included in the International Baseball Series, SPAIN - UCLA, the tickets for the European Baseballship will be made available. The sale will begin 1 hour before each game and end 1 hour after the start of the game.
 

The Spanish baseball team, that will compete in the European Baseball Championship, “Eurobaseball’07” – Barcelona, Spain, from the 7th to the 16th of September – will be on stage in the Catalan city from August 15th.
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Europe’s most important baseball competition, Eurobaseball 2007, will take place in Barcelona, Spain. The European championship is disputed between 12 countries, is scheduled between the 7th and 16th of September. The official fields will be the Municipal Baseball Field Carlos Pérez de Rozas, in Barcelona and the fields in nearby cities Viladecans and Sant Boi de Llobregat.
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The Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation is firm about its committment with the Environment and thus want to take advantage of our Continent's most important baseball competition to promote a series of actions that will help to reduce the impact of the trophy on the environment.