Challengers Baseball Club Zurich

05.07.2008: The Softball-Team lost twice to the Bern Cardinals on Saturday, July 5 at the Klopstockwiese droping their record to 9-3 and losing first place to the Therwil Flyers. After the C's lost Game 1 6-13, the Challengers erased a two-run deficit to eventually lose 3-7 after extra innings in Game 2. The C's will face the Reussbühl Eagles on Saturday July, 12 at Reussbühl for their last games of the preeliminary round.
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Family & Friends Tournament

29.06.2008: For already the ninth time the traditional Challengers Family & Friends Tournament took place on Sunday, June 29 for the second time now at the Klopstockwiese. Five teams composed of active and former players, their families and friends lined up to win the crown. In splendid weather over 70 Challengers & Friends battled for almost six hours for hits, runs and outs. Team Chris walked away with the trophy after beating Team Ysa in the finals 12-5. Team Party finished in third place ahead of Team Old School and Team Wallis. Thanks to all the helpers and all the participants, who made a go of the fun tournament again.

1.Liga-Team adds two more wins

28.06.2008: The 1.Liga-Team won twice on Saturday, June 28 at Rapperswil-Jona to keep their playoff hopes alive. After beating the host Jona Bandits 10-8, the Challengers posted a 14-4 victory over the cross-town rivals Zürich Lions. The C's have now a 6-4 record and are in fourth place just one game behind the first ranked Zürich Barracudas and Wil Devils.
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Ladies take two from Kobras

22.06.2008: The Softball-Team improved its record to 9-1 after showing its best performance of the season against the strong Rümlang Kobras on Sunday, June 22 at Rümlang with temperatures at 31 degrees above zero. The Challengers broke a 2-2 tie with RBI-singles by Karen Heimgartner, Simone Zurschmitten and Andrea Wirth in the fifth inning and Karin Mittelstädt had two hits and crossed the plate three times, as the Challengers held on for a 10-3 victory in Game 1. Leandra Simitovic went the distance, giving up two earned runs on six hits while striking out a season high eight.
Heimgartner led the C's to a 12-3 win over the Kobras in Game 2, tossing a no-hitter with three runs - none of them earned - one walk and thirteen strikeouts and Flavia Von Meiss had two hits and drove in three runs, while Alexia Zingg, Simona Cellar, Elisabete Vieira and Simitovic scored two runs apiece and the Challengers rolled to their ninth win in ten games.
The C's will face next last year's semi-final opponent Bern Cardinals at Saturday, July 5 at the Klopstockwiese.
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C's beat BK Vilnius, finish in Third Place

20.06.2008: The Challengers finish in third place at the Qualifier European Cup Tournament at Brest, Belarus with a 3-2 record. James Sanders was credited with the win and the save, while Tobias Siegrist belted two triples and drove in a game-high five runs, as the Challengers posted a 12-8 victory over BK Vilnius from Lithuania on Friday, June 20 in what was their final game of the tournament. The Ukrainian champion KNTU Kirovograd won the best-of-three final series 2-1 against the host Brest Zubrs.
Meanwhile the Swiss champion Bern Cardinals won the Qualifier Tournament at Brno, Czech Republic. After reaching the final with a perfect 5-0 record the Cards sweeped Kranjski Lisjaki from Slovenia in the best-of-three final series. It is for the first time ever that a Swiss team has won a Qualifier Tournament.
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C's edged twice by Cudas

07.06.2008: One week after a historic last clash on the old Heerenschürli field the Zürich Barracudas and the Zürich Challengers made history again. The two cross-town rivals met on Saturday, June 7 at Embrach in what was the first ever Swiss baseball game that will be broadcasted by the Swiss Sports Television, aired on Star TV on Monday, June 9 from 8pm till 9.30pm.
And the viewers will see a thrilling game. Thomas Burger tossed a complete game with a season-high 14 strikeouts and allowed four runs and eight hits, but ended up with a loss, as the Barracudas built up an early 4-0 lead and held on for a 4-3 victory in Game 1.
But things got even worse for the Challengers in Game 2. The C's led 3-2 with two outs and two strikes in the last frame, but Andy Rüesch plated the tying run for the Barracudas with an RBI-single on the last strike before scoring the game-winning run a few seconds later to send the Cudas to a dramatic 5-3 win. The C's dropped their record to 5-7 and need to win at least six of their next eight games to clinch a playoff spot.
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Neues Stadion kommt!

25.11.2007: Mit 74,8% sagte der Souverän am 25. November 2007 klar ja zum Objektkredit von 49,96 Millionen Franken für die Gesamterneuerung der Breitensportanlage Heerenschürli in Zürich-Schwamendingen. Damit ebnete das Zürcher Stimmvolk auch den Weg für ein regelkonformes Baseballfeld, das den internationalen Normen entsprechen wird. Damit wird die Schweizer Baseballszene in Zürich Nord ein nationales Trainingszentrum erhalten.

Für die drei auf dem Heerenschürli beheimateten Zürcher Baseball-Klubs wird damit ein langgehegter Traum Wirklichkeit. Bisher mussten die Barracudas, Lions und Challengers ihre Heimspiele auf einem nicht wettkampfkonformen Spielfeld austragen. Neben dem neuen Baseballfeld werden auch die alten Garderobengebäude durch einen Neubau ersetzt, der auch ein Restaurant und einen Saal enthält.

Unser Dank geht an Grün Stadt Zürich, das Sportamt der Stadt Zürich sowie das Abstimmungskomitee «Pro Breitensportanlage Heerenschürli», dem namhafte Persönlichkeiten aus Politik und Sport angehörten und das sich unter der Regie von Hans Diem, dem Ehrenpräsidenten des Zürcher Stadtverbandes für Sport (ZSS) und Präsidenten von Pro Sportstadt Zürich, im Vorfeld stark für die neue Sportanlage, den Breitensport und das Quartier Schwamendingen eingesetzt hat.

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Cadets are Swiss Champions

23.09.2007:
The Cadets won the Swiss Championship on Sunday! The Challengers posted a 13-6 victory over the Lions/Bandits/Rainbows in Game 2 of their best-of-three final series to win the series 2-0. It's the first national title for the C's juniors since 1997.
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Ladies finish in 4th place

24.08.2007:
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