{"id":8839,"date":"2015-04-13T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/?page_id=8839"},"modified":"2015-08-15T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T12:27:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Latest News<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"lstNews\"><li>08.08.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nightgames-festival-at-heerenschuerli\/\">Nightgames Festival at Heerensch\u00fcrli<\/a><\/h3><p>In the last week of Zurich&#8217;s holidays, the Challengers offer their fans a Nightgames Festival. The NLA team kicks things off, facing the Zurich Barracudas\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nightgames-festival-at-heerenschuerli\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li>17.05.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/second-team-wins-nailbiter-for-the-sweep\/\">Second Team wins Nailbiter for the Sweep<\/a><\/h3><p>On Sunday, the second teams of the Therwil Flyers and the Challengers faced off at Zurich&#8217;s Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark. While the home team won decisively in\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/second-team-wins-nailbiter-for-the-sweep\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li>13.05.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/challengers-2-vs-flyers-2-on-sunday\/\">Challengers 2 vs Flyers 2 on Sunday<\/a><\/h3><p>Ten days after the Challengers and Flyers&#8217; first teams faced off, the second teams of these two long-established clubs will meet this coming Sunday at\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/challengers-2-vs-flyers-2-on-sunday\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li>10.05.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/setback-after-extra-inning-drama\/\">Setback after Extra-Inning Drama<\/a><\/h3><p>The Challengers needed to win both games against their city rivals, the Zurich Lions, to keep their hopes of advancing to the Master Round alive.\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/setback-after-extra-inning-drama\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li>10.05.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/u12-victories-on-mothers-day\/\">U12 Victories on Mother&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/h3><p>The U12 Juveniles won both games against the SG Wittenbach-Romanshorn\/Embrach Baseball Team\/Zurich Lions on Mother&#8217;s Day in Embrach, remaining the only undefeated Juveniles team. The\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/u12-victories-on-mothers-day\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li>10.05.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/barracudas-win-softball-derby\/\">Barracudas win Softball-Derby<\/a><\/h3><p>The Mother&#8217;s Day softball derby ended with a victory for the Zurich Barracudas, who wore pink as part of the Pink Ribbon campaign. The Challengers\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/barracudas-win-softball-derby\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li>09.05.2026<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/premiere-for-prospect-league\/\">Premiere for Prospect League<\/a><\/h3><p>The Prospect League, newly founded by the Swiss Baseball and Softball Federation, celebrated its premiere on Saturday. The Challengers&#8217; games were promising. The Prospect League\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/premiere-for-prospect-league\/\">Continue Reading  &raquo;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prospect League, newly founded by the Swiss Baseball and Softball Federation, celebrated its premiere on Saturday. The Challengers&#8217; games were promising.<br \/>\nThe Prospect League for players under 21 years of age was launched this season. Its aim is twofold. To give young players more playing time and to foster a love of the game through competition among their peers. The Challengers are participating in this Prospect League as part of a joint team with the H\u00fcnenberg Unicorns and the Lucerne Eagles. The joint team celebrated its premiere in Therwil with games against the Zurich Barracudas and the Therwil Flyers.<br \/>\nAnd it started with a high-caliber duel against the Barracudas. The Challengers opened the game with three consecutive hits by Jason W\u00fcger, Bastian K\u00e4mpfer, and Fabrizio Bucher, resulting in the first run. From then on, it was a tight game. The Barracudas evened the score in the third inning and capitalized on two defensive errors by the SG in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead. However, this lead didn&#8217;t last long. A two-run double by Bastian K\u00e4mpfer tied the game in the fifth, and Fabrizio Bucher followed up with an RBI single to make it 4-3. That&#8217;s how it ended. Pitcher Jason W\u00fcger allowed only six hits and three runs &#8211; one earned &#8211; and three walks in the six innings for the win, striking out eight.<br \/>\nThe second game against the host team from Therwil started off differently. Drew Creeden put his team on the board with a three-run home run. He later added a two-run triple and a two-run double, racking up seven RBIs for a 9-0 lead. Then the offense of the Zurich-Central Swiss team finally came alive as well. Fabrizio Bucher and Bastian K\u00e4mpfer initially cut the deficit to 3-9, before Jonathan R\u00fcggerberg, Jimmy Siemers, Jonathan Egger, and Jason W\u00fcger narrowed the gap to 7-9 with their runs in the fourth inning. However, the Flyers had the final say, ultimately winning 12-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8839","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-13 02:20:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9541,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8839\/revisions\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}