The Softball-Team is off to the worst start in the team’s six-year history, as the Challengers lost twice to the Bern Cardinals on Saturday, May 23 at the Klopstockwiese. The C’s are now in fifth place with a 2-4 record. Although the Challengers outhit the Cardinals 9-6 in Game 1, they lost 9-16, as their pitchers allowed too many walks. Starter Andrea Wirth ended up with the loss allowing nine runs – two of them unearned – and one hit with one strikeout in 3-plus innings and Corinne Wengi gave up another five runs in the fourth. Leandra Simitovic collected three hits including a double, while Celine Welti drove in two runs with her first career hit in the second inning. Game 2 was all Cardinals. Amanda Bell tossed a two-hitter with six strikeouts and Sibylle Zürcher hit a 3-run homerun, a double and drove in five runs in the Cards 12-0 victory over the C’s. The C’s lost due to poor batting and committed six costly errors, that led to nine unearned runs. Leandra Simitovic allowed 12 runs – three earned – and nine hits with five walks and three strikeouts, while Alexia Zingg and Katrin Dresbach were the only Challengers with a hit. The Challengers will face next the Wil Devils on Sunday, June 14 at Wil.

Flavia von Meiss was placed on the disabled list with a fractured left little finger, an injury suffered Sunday when she was attempting to make a diving catch in Game 1 against the Therwil Flyers. Von Meiss finished the game going 1-for-2 with a walk and scored a run. X-rays on Tuesday revealed the fracture at the base of her finger. The Softball Team’s leadoff batter is expected to be sidelined five to six weeks.

The Softball-Team lost twice against the titleholders Therwil Flyers on Sunday, May 10 at Therwil. The Flyers posted a 11-4 victory over the Challengers in Game 1. The Challengers had a good start, as they scored three runs in the first inning on a bases loaded walk to Andrea Wirth, a RBI-single by Alexia Zingg and a passed ball. But the C’s threw the lead away in the third, as they committed several errors enabling the Flyers to score four times. And the Flyers did some more damage in the fourth inning, as Jennifer Feret belted a three-run homer in her very first game for the Flyers to make it 8-3. Simone Zurschmitten added a run for the C’s in the fifth, before Melanie Wanner delivered a two-run triple for the reigning champion to make it 10-4. Game 2 saw a pitcher’s duel between Jennifer Feret for the Flyers and Karen Heimgartner for the Challengers. The Flyers opened the score with two runs in the first inning and that was all they needed. The C’s didn’t give up and put runners on second and third with no outs in the seventh, but Feret shut the door on the C’s with two strikeouts and a groundout to end the threat. Feret tossed a two-hitter with thirteen strikeouts and one walk for the win, while Heimgartner (1-1) allowed two runs and four hits with eight strikeouts. The Challengers (2-2) will host the Bern Cardinals (0-2) on Saturday, May 23 at the Klopstockwiese.