Day three of the preliminary round at the European Cup in Chartres and Paris, France on Thursday. Three games were played with L&D Amsterdam, T&A San Marino and Unipol Bologna picking up shutout victories. Two more days of round-robin competition before the top two teams play out the winner of the tournament on Sunday.
L&D Amsterdam – Brest Zubrs 8-0
L&D Amsterdam celebrated its second shutout in two days and its third win at the 2015 European Cup with an 8-0 win over Belarus title holder Brest Zubrs. Jimmy Ossinga issued just two hits and a walk in eight scoreless innings to lead the Pirates to the victory. Daan Hendrix closed it out in the ninth. The L&D offense did all of its damage in the first three frames. Michael Duursma and Jesse Aussems drove in two apiece. Remco Draijer doubled twice. Kiryl Kazlouski went the distance for Brest, keeping Amsterdam actually in check after the third. Aliaksandr Lukashevich had both hits for Zubrs.
T&A San Marino – Solingen Alligators 4-0
The afternoon game at the European Cup in Chartres saw another gem on the pitcher’s mound. Former Minor Leaguer Andrea Pizziconi struck out nine in eight scoreless four-hit innings to lead T&A San Marino to a 4-0 win over the Solingen Alligators. He was perfect through the first 5 1/3 innings. Darwin Cubillan pitched around a two-out walk in the ninth. Solingen’s Enorbel Marquez-Ramirez, who had spent five years in the Italian Baseball League, kept his team in the game, but eventually had to take the loss. He surrendered seven hits, three runs and three walks in seven solid innings. Mario Chiarini drove in two. Joe Mazzuca scored twice.
Paris UC – Unipol Bologna 0-11 (7)
Unipol Bologna got its second win in three games with an 11-0 shutout over Paris UC in the second game in Paris on Thursday. Bologna scored in five of the first six frames on route to the win. Second baseman Alessandro Vaglio, a member of the Italian National Team, led Fortitudo by going 4-for-5 with two RBI. Martin Mondino and Guillermo Rodriguez collected two RBI apiece. Salomon Marinez conceded only three hits and a walk in seven scoreless innings for the win. He struck out three. Maxime Monbeig took the loss, giving up seven runs (6 ER) on nine hits and a walk in 3 2/3 innings.
Outlook
On Friday L&D Amsterdam looks to improve to 4-0 in the evening game at 5pm against host Paris UC. Earlier on the day at 12pm Stade Pershing sees the matchup between the Solingen Alligators and Unipol Bologna. T&A San Marino faces Brest Zubrs at 3pm in Chartres.
Standings
|
Pos
|
Team
|
GP
|
WO
|
LO
|
AVG
|
GB
|
|
1
|
 Amsterdam Pirates (NED) |
3
|
3
|
0
|
1000
|
0
|
|
2
|
 CNF Unipolsai Bologna (ITA) |
3
|
2
|
1
|
667
|
1
|
|
3
|
 T & A San Marino (SMR) |
3
|
2
|
1
|
667
|
1
|
|
4
|
 PUC (FRA) |
3
|
1
|
2
|
333
|
2
|
|
5
|
 Solingen Alligators (GER) |
3
|
1
|
2
|
333
|
2
|
|
6
|
 Brest Zubrs (BLR) |
3
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
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