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.

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Junioren spielten in Therwil

Die Challengers Junioren bestritten zusammen mit den Dulliken TruckStar am Sonntag, 16. Februar das Hallenturnier in Therwil. Sowohl die U12-Juveniles als auch die U15-Cadets beendeten das Turnier im vierten Rang, wobei die U12-Juveniles den einzigen Sieg für die SG TruckStar/Challengers erzielen konnten.
 
Für die Juveniles spielten (links): Dominik Leonhardt, Bastian Kämpfer, Noam Blickenstorfer, Elia Martinez, Florin Kämpfer. – Für die Cadets spielten (rechts): Robin Gisin, Jeffrey Pomuceno, Rintaro Onishi, Bastian Kämpfer, Dominik Leonhardt. Coach: Adrian Kämpfer. (Fotos: TruckStar)

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Juniors travel to Therwil on Sunday

The U12-Juveniles and the U15-Cadets will participate at their second indoor tournament of the season on Sunday, February 16 at the 8th Baseball Indoor Tournament at Therwil. The Challengers will play together with the Dulliken TruckStar. All games will be played at the 99-er Sporthalle (Mühlebodenschulhaus, Schulgasse 1, 4106 Therwil).
 
The U12-Juveniles will face the Therwil Flyers, Rümlang Kobras and the Neuenburg Atomics from Germany. The first game for the SG TruckStar/Challengers will start at 9.55am.
 
The U15-Cadets will start their tournament at 3.20pm against the Thun Hunters and will also play the Neuenburg Atomics and the Therwil Flyers.

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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.

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Juniors open indoor season

The U12-Juveniles and the U15-Cadets will open their indoor season on Saturday, February 1 at the Embrach Indoor Baseball Tournament at the Turnhalle Breiti (Schützenhausstr. 20, 8424 Embrach). The Challengers will play together with the Dulliken TruckStar.
 
The U12-Juveniles will face the Rümlang Kobras, Wittenbach Vikings and Wil Devils. The first game for the SG TruckStar/Challengers will start at 8.30am, the final will be played at 12.30pm.
 
The U15-Cadets will start their tournament at 1.30pm against the Therwil Flyers and will also play the Black Hawks, Rümlang Kobras and Wil Devils. The final will take place at 6.00pm.

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Challengers start winter practice

Though the temperatures in 2014 are higher than average so far, spring is still far away. Nonetheless the Challengers baseball and softball teams are practicing indoors since early January.
 
The teams are practicing between two and six hours a week, with special workouts for pitchers and catchers. The practices for the seniors teams take place at the Rämibühl gym close to the University of Zurich, while practice for the juniors teams takes place at the Aubrücke gym in Zürich-Schwamendingen and the Schauenberg gym for pitchers and catchers in Zürich-Affoltern.
 
Though the indoor practices may not replace the work at the ballpark, the teams are excited to be back in action. At least they don't have to worry about bad weather.
 
The Zurich outdoor season will start with the 17th edition of the Zurich International Spring Tournament on March 29 and 30 at the Heerenschürli ballpark.

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Challengers Generalversammlung

Am Sonntag, 1. Dezember fand im Restaurant Linde Oberstrass in Zürich die 34. ordentliche Generalversammlung des Challengers Baseball & Softball Clubs statt. Der Verein konnte auf ein sportlich wie finanziell erfolgreiches Geschäftsjahr zurückblicken. Der Vorstand um Präsident Adrian Kämpfer wurde im Amt bestätigt.
 
Für 2014 werden die Softballerinnen zusammen mit den Softballerinnen der Zürich Barracudas neu ein gemeinsames Team in der Meisterschaft stellen. In der 1. Liga der Baseballer sowie allen Juniorenklassen wird die Zusammenarbeit mit den Dulliken Truck Star weitergeführt. Die NLA-Meisterschaft der Baseballer umfasst 2014 nur noch sechs Teams, nachdem sowohl die Wil Devils als auch der diesjährige Finalist Embrach Mustangs sich freiwillig in die NLB zurückgezogen haben.
 
Die Auszeichnungen als "MVP" ihrer jeweiligen Teams erhielten Tobias Siegrist (Baseball NLA), Carlos Nepomuceno (Baseball NLB), Michel Romang (Baseball 1.Liga) und Simona Cellar (Softball).

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