﻿{"id":27720,"date":"2024-09-08T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/?p=27720"},"modified":"2024-09-08T19:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:58:52","slug":"cadets-finish-season-in-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadets finish season in third place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U15 Cadets sweep the R\u00fcmlang Kobras 2-0 in the best-of-three series for the bronze medal and take third place. After a clear victory in Game 1, the Challengers took Game 2 with a walk-off win in extra innings.<\/p>\n<p>The duel for bronze in the U15 Cadets championship was a repeat of the 2023 final. And just like a year ago the Challengers prevailed in the duel between the cantonal rivals against the R\u00fcmlang Kobras. The Zurich team laid the foundation for victory in Game 1 in the second inning. The C&#8217;s scored three runs from five hits, including a triple by Yannik Hobi and an RBI double by Noam M\u00fcller. One inning later they extended their lead to 6-2, also thanks in part to some errors by the Kobras. This broke their resistance and the Challengers added a few more runs to ultimately secure a 15-3 win.<\/p>\n<p>The second game of the day remained dramatic until the last pitch. The Kobras once again gave everything they had and took a 2-0 lead in the second inning. But the Challengers also saved a few highlights for Game 2. Yannik Hobi opened the bottom half of the second inning with a solo home run and after a single by Jimmy Siemers, Ilai Blickenstorfer followed up with a 2-run home run over the center field fence. The Kobras took the lead again with two runs in the fourth inning to make it 4-3. Before the Challengers&#8217; last attack, the score was still the same. But the Challengers managed to equalize. After singles by Noam M\u00fcller and Ben Dickow, Jasper Freigang made it 4-4 with an RBI groundout. In the extra inning pitcher Tyler Smith defused a bases loaded situation with no outs with his defense, giving the Challengers a chance to win it in the bottom half of the extra inning. And the C&#8217;s made short work of it. After a wild pitch Tyler Smith scored the winning run and secured the bronze medal for his team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U15 Cadets series for bronze Zurich Challengers vs. R\u00fcmlang Kobras: score 2-0 (best-of-three)<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>Sunday, September 8, 11:00 a.m., R\u00fcmlang R\u00fcmelbach: <strong>Z\u00fcrich Challengers<\/strong> vs. R\u00fcmlang Kobras <strong>15-3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sunday, September 8, 1:30 p.m., R\u00fcmlang R\u00fcmelbach: R\u00fcmlang Kobras vs. <strong>Z\u00fcrich Challengers 4-5<\/strong> (6 inn.) <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U15 Cadets sweep the R\u00fcmlang Kobras 2-0 in the best-of-three series for the bronze medal and take third place. After a clear victory in Game 1, the Challengers took Game 2 with a walk-off win in extra innings.<br \/>\nThe duel for bronze in the U15 Cadets championship was a repeat of the 2023 final. And just like a year ago the Challengers prevailed in the duel between the cantonal rivals against the R\u00fcmlang Kobras. The Zurich team laid the foundation for victory in Game 1 in the second inning. The C&#8217;s scored three runs from five hits, including a triple by Yannik Hobi and an RBI double by Noam M\u00fcller. One inning later they extended their lead to 6-2, also thanks in part to some errors by the Kobras. This broke their resistance and the Challengers added a few more runs to ultimately secure a 15-3 win.<br \/>\nThe second game of the day remained dramatic until the last pitch. The Kobras once again gave everything they had and took a 2-0 lead in the second inning. But the Challengers also saved a few highlights for Game 2. Yannik Hobi opened the bottom half of the second inning with a solo home run and after a single by Jimmy Siemers, Ilai Blickenstorfer followed up with a 2-run home run over the center field fence. The Kobras took the lead again with two runs in the fourth inning to make it 4-3. Before the Challengers&#8217; last attack, the score was still the same. But the Challengers managed to equalize. After singles by Noam M\u00fcller and Ben Dickow, Jasper Freigang made it 4-4 with an RBI groundout. In the extra inning pitcher Tyler Smith defused a bases loaded situation with no outs with his defense, giving the Challengers a chance to win it in the bottom half of the extra inning. And the C&#8217;s made short work of it. After a wild pitch Tyler Smith scored the winning run and secured the bronze medal for his team.<br \/>\nU15 Cadets series for bronze Zurich Challengers vs. R\u00fcmlang Kobras: score 2-0 (best-of-three)<br \/>\nSunday, September 8, 11:00 a.m., R\u00fcmlang R\u00fcmelbach: Z\u00fcrich Challengers vs. R\u00fcmlang Kobras 15-3<br \/>\nSunday, September 8, 1:30 p.m., R\u00fcmlang R\u00fcmelbach: R\u00fcmlang Kobras vs. Z\u00fcrich Challengers 4-5 (6 inn.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadets-en","category-startseite-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cadets finish season in third place - Zurich Challengers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Challengers Baseball- und Softball-Club Z\u00fcrich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/\",\"name\":\"Cadets finish season in third place - Zurich Challengers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-08T17:58:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#\/schema\/person\/a905149e1e05b54c1767991e651a53ce\"},\"description\":\"Challengers Baseball- und Softball-Club Z\u00fcrich\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/cadets-finish-season-in-third-place\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cadets finish season in third place\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/\",\"name\":\"Zurich Challengers\",\"description\":\"Baseball &amp; 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