Saturday, June 20, 2009

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS CUP FINAL 4 THIS WEEKEND

Four of Europe’s top baseball clubs are in Barcelona this weekend for the European Champions Cup tournament Final Four. The defending champions Danesi Nettuno are being joined by fellow Italian Serie A1 club Fortitudo Bologna and Dutch Major League sides Corendon Kinheim and Amsterdam Pirates as the top two leagues in Europe hold all four berths in the semifinals.

Nettuno came to Barcelona at 17-13 and hold fourth place in the Italian standings. They won the first Champions Cup tournament last September with a 3-2 win over T&A San Marino. Bologna was second in the Italian League with a 20-10 record prior to this weekend’s action. Defending Dutch champion Amsterdam is batting .324 as a team en route to a 22-8 record in the Hoofdklasse this year, while Kinheim is 19-11. Corendon won three straight Dutch pennants before being dethroned last fall.

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