Catching Up: Tornado Balashikha prevails in Russia

During the next two weeks we are going to look at a few Baseball and Softball Leagues in Europe, we were not covering during the 2009 season.

Tornado Balashikha won the Russian Baseball championship this season. During the best-of-five final series they prevailed in four games against last year’s champion MGPU, which also had won a European Cup Qualifier this summer. It was the seventh title for Tornado in team history.

Championship Series:

Tornado Balashikha – MGPU 3-1 (3-6, 20-5, 7-5, 12-5)

Final Standings:

(including regular season records, first four teams played 36-game schedule in group A, other seven 24-game schedule in group B)

1. Tornado Balashikha (25-11)
2. MGPU (19-17)
3. Severnye Zvezdy Moscow (18-18)
4. Moskvich (10-26)
5. CSKA Balashikha (17-7)
6. Severnye Zvezdy Sankt-Petersburg (14-10)
7. 78ers Moscow (13-11)
8. SKB Moscow (13-11)
9. Green Socks Moscow (11-13)
10. Spartak Moscow (10-14)
11. Bears Jaroslavl (6-18)