Challengers Baseball Club Zurich

For the 14th time in franchise history and for the first time since 2008 the Challengers will participate at the Baseball European Cup. After the withdrawal of the Embrach Mustangs also the Therwil Flyers resigned their participation, so that the Challengers gained the second Swiss spot for the 2014 European Cup Qualifiers.

The Challengers will play at the Qualifier tournament at Antwerp, Belgium, which will take place from June 16 till 21. The C's will face NADA Split from Croatia, the Vienna Wanderers from Austria, Leksand Baseball from Sweden and the Brasschaat Braves from Belgium.

Juniors play indoor tournament at Olten

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Truck Star Dulliken our partner team organizes the 1st Baseball Indoor Tournament at Olten on Sunday, March 9.

The U12-Juveniles from the TruckStar/Challengers will face the Hünenberg Unicorns, Rümlang Kobras and Wittenbach Vikings starting at 9.00 am against the Unicorns.

The U15-Cadets will play the Cardinals/Frogs, Hünenberg Unicorns and Thun Hunters beginning at 1.15pm. All games will be played at Stadthalle Kleinholz at Olten.

Provisional schedule published

The provisional schedule for the 2014 NLA season has been published on February 2. The six teams in the Baseball NLA will play 25 games each and will face every opponent five times. The Challengers will start their season with a double header against their archrival Therwil Flyers the Zurich Barracudas on Sunday, April 6 at the Heerenschürli ballpark.

The Zurich Softball Team with players from the Zurich Barracudas and the Zurich Challengers will open its season on Sunday, April 27 against the Bern Cardinals at Bern. Because of the Softball League has been reduced to five teams, each team will play only 16 regular season games in 2014.