﻿{"id":29270,"date":"2025-08-31T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/?p=29270"},"modified":"2025-09-01T06:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:45:31","slug":"juveniles-reach-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Juveniles reach the Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1714\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-780x522.jpg 780w, https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-2048x1372.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The home team qualified for the chmapionship game of the U12-Juveniles final four tournament at the Klopstockwiese in Zurich-Enge. The Challengers beat the Geneva Dragons 6-2 in the first semifinal. However, the Therwil Flyers proved too strong in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The finals day began well for the Challengers. Although the visitors from Geneva took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, the home team immediately responded with three runs to make it 3-2. And because the defense, led by strong pitcher Roy Gonzalez, didn&#8217;t allow any more runs and the Challengers regularly added runs on offense, the Zurich team ultimately secured a comfortable 6-2 victory. In the second semifinal, the Therwil Flyers defeated the Lucerne Eagles in an extremely close game with a 2-1 walk-off victory.<\/p>\n<p>The finals thus pitted the Therwil Flyers against the Zurich Challengers \u2013 once again in a final in Swiss baseball. However, this soon proved to be a one-sided affair. In the first inning, the Challengers made a fatal error in the outfield, giving the Baselbieters a 2-0 lead. The Challengers failed to respond. The offense remained largely harmless, all the close plays were going to the Flyers, who steadily extended their lead to 7-0. It wasn&#8217;t until the fourth inning that the Challengers finally got on the scoreboard. Then the Flyers went on to blast off, scoring seven more runs with numerous impressive extra-base hits. The Challengers showed some courage in the final inning, scoring two more runs to make it 3-14. The championship title, however, logically went to Therwil. The Geneva Dragons took the bronze medal with a 5-4 victory over the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U12 Final-Four Schedule, Sunday, August 31., Klopstockwiese, Zurich-Enge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>Semi-Final no. 1: Geneva Dragons vs. Z\u00fcrich Challengers 2-6<\/li>\n<li>Semi-Final no. 2: Luzern Eagles vs. <strong>Therwil Flyers 1-2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Game for third place: <strong>Geneva Dragons<\/strong> vs. Luzern Eagles <strong>5-4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Final: <strong>Therwil Flyers<\/strong> vs. Z\u00fcrich Challengers <strong>14-3<\/strong><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home team qualified for the chmapionship game of the U12-Juveniles final four tournament at the Klopstockwiese in Zurich-Enge. The Challengers beat the Geneva Dragons 6-2 in the first semifinal. However, the Therwil Flyers proved too strong in the final.<br \/>\nThe finals day began well for the Challengers. Although the visitors from Geneva took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, the home team immediately responded with three runs to make it 3-2. And because the defense, led by strong pitcher Roy Gonzalez, didn&#8217;t allow any more runs and the Challengers regularly added runs on offense, the Zurich team ultimately secured a comfortable 6-2 victory. In the second semifinal, the Therwil Flyers defeated the Lucerne Eagles in an extremely close game with a 2-1 walk-off victory.<br \/>\nThe finals thus pitted the Therwil Flyers against the Zurich Challengers \u2013 once again in a final in Swiss baseball. However, this soon proved to be a one-sided affair. In the first inning, the Challengers made a fatal error in the outfield, giving the Baselbieters a 2-0 lead. The Challengers failed to respond. The offense remained largely harmless, all the close plays were going to the Flyers, who steadily extended their lead to 7-0. It wasn&#8217;t until the fourth inning that the Challengers finally got on the scoreboard. Then the Flyers went on to blast off, scoring seven more runs with numerous impressive extra-base hits. The Challengers showed some courage in the final inning, scoring two more runs to make it 3-14. The championship title, however, logically went to Therwil. The Geneva Dragons took the bronze medal with a 5-4 victory over the Eagles.<br \/>\nU12 Final-Four Schedule, Sunday, August 31., Klopstockwiese, Zurich-Enge:<br \/>\nSemi-Final no. 1: Geneva Dragons vs. Z\u00fcrich Challengers 2-6<br \/>\nSemi-Final no. 2: Luzern Eagles vs. Therwil Flyers 1-2<br \/>\nGame for third place: Geneva Dragons vs. Luzern Eagles 5-4<br \/>\nFinal: Therwil Flyers vs. Z\u00fcrich Challengers 14-3<\/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":[28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startseite-en","category-juveniles-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Juveniles reach the Championship Game - 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\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/\",\"name\":\"Juveniles reach the Championship Game - Zurich Challengers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-31T18:01:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-01T04:45:31+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\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.challengers.ch\/uploads\/250831_U12_IMG_8370_web-scaled.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/juveniles-reach-the-final\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Juveniles reach the Championship Game\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/\",\"name\":\"Zurich Challengers\",\"description\":\"Baseball &amp; 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