The Challengers Baseball and Softball Club is proud to announce that Robert Sedin has been named new head coach for the 2016 season.
The 28-year old San Jose native is wearing the Challengers uniform since 2012 as a player and coach of the organization’s NLB-Team. Sedin appeared in 101 games for the C’s, batting .391 Avg. with 37 doubles, 6 triples, 3 homeruns, 77 RBI’s and 127 runs scored. He also started 31 games as a pitcher, having a 18-14 record with 2.65 ERA and 296 strikeouts in 257.2 innings.

The Challengers took another tough loss in Game 2 on Sunday, August 30 against the Zürich Barracudas, this time the C’s lost 4-5. The Challengers almost erased a five-run deficit, but left the tying run on second base in the bottom of the ninth inning.

The C’s were dominant in the second half of the game and outhit their opponents 12-8, but couldn’t close the gap, as they missed too many chances to score. Clayton Carson started the rally with a double and scored on a RBI-single from Tobias Siegrist. In the fifth Robert Sedin and Siegrist again reduced the deficit to two runs 3-5 and in the sixth it seemed, that the C’s came within one run, but Jay Casimiro was called out at home. So it was in the eight frame, as the C’s scored another run with Siegrist crossing the plate on a wild pitch. The Barracudas are now leding the best-of-five semi-final series 5-4, so that the Challengers are already with their backs against the wall. Game 3 will take place on Saturday, September 5 at the Heerenschürli park.

The Challengers are behind 0-1 after Game 1 of the Best-of-five Semifinal Series against their local rivals Zürich Barracudas. The Challengers lost a fantastic game 2-3 in the bottom of the eleventh inning. The team of playing coach Clayton Carson was behind for the most part of the game, as Carlos Nepomuceno tied the game at 2-2 with a pinch-hit RBI-single in the top of the eighth inning. The Barracudas came close in the tenth frame, but pitcher Tobias Siegrist worked in and out of trouble. But the Barracudas walked away in the eleventh, as Hasson Rogers delivered a two-out infield single to make it 3-2. Game 2 will take place on Sunday, August 30 at 2 pm at the Heerenschürli ballpark.