Challengers Baseball Club Zurich

02.07.2009: The softball game between the Zurich Barracudas and the Challengers that was rained out on June 26 has been rescheduled for Tuesday, July 7, at the Klopstockwiese. The seven-inning contest is scheduled to get underway at 7pm.
The game, that had to be called in the second inning due to heavy rain, was part of a double header with the Challengers taking game one 19-12.
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Family & Friends Tournament

30.06.2009: The traditional Challengers Family & Friends Tournament will take place on Sunday, July 5 from 10am till 5pm at the Klopstockwiese in Zürich-Enge, Tram 13 & Bus 33 to Waffenplatzstrasse. All the Challengers' friends are invited to swing the bat.

Cadets finish in 1st place

28.06.2009: The U15-Cadets finish the preeliminary round in the East Division in first place, but couldn't keep their record clean. The Challengers edged the Rümlang Kobras 5-4 in Game 1 on Sunday, June 28 at Embrach, before ending up with their first loss since almost two years, as the Lions/Rainbows posted a 9-8 victory over the Challengers. The C's remained in first place with a 11-1 record.
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Challengers edge Barracudas twice

27.06.2009:
The Challengers swept their cross-town rivals Barracudas on Saturday, June 27 in a Zurich derby played in Sissach. The C's edged the Cudas 8-7 in Game 1, before they held on for a 2-1 victory in Game 2, as all the runs were scored in the first two frames, while playing coach James Sanders tossed a complete game for his second win of the season. With the two wins the C's extended their winning streak to six games and moved into fourth position with a 12-8 record two games ahead of the Barracudas.
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Ladies win in six innings

27.06.2009: The Softball-Team had one of its best offensive games of 2009 and recorded its fourth win of the season in the only game on Saturday, June 27 at the Klopstockwiese.
Alexia Zingg had three hits and Sandrine Montandon and Ziegylou Wehrli drove in three runs apiece and the Challengers had a season-high 16 hits, beating their cross-town rivals Barracudas 19-12.
The C's exploded for nine runs in the first inning, as Barracudas starter Corina Grass managed to retire only two batters in rainy conditions and Simona Cellar greeted reliever Angi Montag with a triple to make it 7-0, before the C's scored two more runs.
The Cudas got two runs back in the second inning, but the C's extended their lead to ten runs in the third, as they led off the inning with three singles from Andrea Wirth, Celine Welti and Sandrine Montandon.
Headcoach Armin Blickenstorfer then handed the ball to Simona Cellar, but she walked all four batters she faced, and the Barracudas cut the deficit to 5-12. Reliever Corinne Wengi started the fifth but loaded the bases again for the Cudas and two costly errors from the Challengers' defense enabled the Barracudas to tie the game. Starter Leandra Simitovic took over again for the blue and red and stopped the bleeding, by retiring the next three batters she faced.
But the Challengers offense wasn't done yet, as Corinne Wengi broke the 12-12 tie with a RBI-single in the bottom of the fifth and Sandrine Montandon connected for a two-run single in the sixth, before Corinne Wengi and rookie Vanessa Zulliger ended the game with back-to-back RBI-doubles to make it 19-12.
Simitovic (2-4) allowed five runs - only two earned - on six hits and two walks, while striking out six.
Game 2 was called due to heavy rain in the second inning. No make-up date has been announced so far.
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1.Liga-Team unstoppable

20.06.2009: The 1.Liga-Team seems to be unstoppable, as the C's extended their winning streak to eight games with two wins on Saturday, June 20 at Rapperswil-Jona.
In Game 1 the blue and red cruised to a 28-2 victory over the Zurich Eighters, before adding an impressive 14-0 shutout win over the second placed Romanshorn Submarines, the team that handed the Challengers the only loss of the season so far on Opening Day.
The Challengers remain in first place with a 9-1 record and will need just one more win to clinch the division title in the East Division.
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Cadets Nationalteam with three Challengers

21.04.2009: The Swiss U15 National Team will play at the European Championship Cadets Qualifier in Antwerp, Belgium from July 20 till 25. Switzerland will face Belgium, Great Britain, Lithuania and Poland. The coaching staff with head coach Seppi Zwyer named the Challengers players Yanik Probst, Danilo Schneider and Gabe Staub in the 14-man roster.

Further informations:
Schedule 

Swiss Roster 

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