Russia beat the Czech Republic in the finals of the European Juveniles Championship in Brest, Belarus last weekend. On Monday evening the organizers released names of the award winners at the 12U competition.
Excerpt from the Brest Zubrs press release:
At the closing ceremony the participants welcomed the European Championship 1st Vice-President of the European Confederation of Baseball Petr Dietrich (Czech Republic), 2nd Vice-President of the Confederation of European Baseball Alexander Ratner (Russia), executive director of the National Olympic Committee of Representatives of Belarus to Brest region Elena Belokonenko, Chief Specialist of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism of Brest Regional Executive Committee, Igor Parshenkov. The winners and medalists were awarded with cups, medals, certificates competitor.
NOC Representative in the Brest region had set up the prizes and gifts for the eight best players of the teams.
Delegate, Technical Commissioner CEB Jan Esselman presented four commemorative cup best players of the tournament:
- “Best Pitcher” – Shitskov, Denis (Russia)
- “Best Fielding” – Faysinger, Gerhard (Austria)
- “Best Batting” – Andrew Furko (Czech Republic)
- “MVP” – Eugene Ryabinin (Russia).
At the end of the championship and winning anthem sounded held photograph of participants at the memory.
Brest said goodbye to championship participants, with a vivid and unforgettable holiday in Europe BASEBALL!
Photos available here:
http://photo.qip.ru/users/andrejka2006/115922212/143900578/#mainImageLink
http://www.noc.by/news/htnews/1033/
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/teamsharks/album/163553/
http://virtual.brest.by/news10402.php
video available here:
http://belretro.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132:brest-baseball&catid=42:brest-sport&Itemid=17