By Alex Gorrin
These are the results from the past couple of weeks from the baseball and softball leagues in Bulgaria and a snapshot of the current team rankings for the different tournaments as we come at/ around the midpoint of the 2015 season.
Baseball
National Championship:
After the initial round of games and first phase of the championship were complete, teams were split into an upper and lower group. The Lions NSA Sofia were granted an entry into the second phase of the National Championship, into the bottom group with a balance of 0:4 for missing the first phase of the season. In this phase, teams play only against teams from their respective group (balance from the first round is accounted for only against the teams from the respective pool). The best two teams from the upper group qualify directly to the semifinal series with home advantage, while teams finishing in 3rd and 4th positions square off against the best two from the lower group in a semifinal qualifier additional round.
June 20:
Lions NSA Sofia – Junak Sofia 7:10
Wolves AAS Sofia – Athletic Kozloduy 9:19
Standings National Championship
- Athletic Sofia 3:0 direct qualification to the semifinals
- Buffaloes Blagoevgrad 2:1 direct qualifications to the semifinals
- Devils Dupnitsa 1:2 playoff for semifinal qualification
- Sofia Blues 0:3 playoff for semifinal qualification
- Akademiks Sofia 4:0 playoff for semifinal qualification
- Junak Sofia 4:1 playoff for semifinal qualification
- Athletic Kozloduy 2:3
Wolves AAS Sofia 2:3
- Lions NSA Sofia 0:5
Sofia Cup
June 09
Athletic Sofia – Wolves AAS 15:3
June 11
Junak Sofia – Akademiks Sofia 8:7
June 13
Sofia Blues – Junak Sofia 18:3
Lions NSA – Akademiks Sofia 6:7
June 14
Lions NSA – Wolves AAS 8:4
Junak Sofia – Athletic Sofia 1:16
June 20
Junak Sofia – Wolves AAS 13:3
June 23
Athletic Sofia – Sofia Blues 6:9
June 24
Sofia Blues – Akademiks Sofia 12:1
Standings Sofia Cup
- Sofia Blues 5:0 qualify for the final on 17.09.
- Athletic Sofia 2:1 qualify for the final on 17.09.
- Junak Sofia 2:2
- Akademiks Sofia 1:2:1
- Lions NSA 1:2
- Wolves AAS 0:4:1
Softball
June 7
Lions Sofia – Angels Dupnitsa 10:12
Lions Sofia – Babes Blagoevgrad 0:19
Angels Dupnitsa – Babes Blagoevgrad 7:0 ff
June 13
Akademiks Sofia – Athletic Sofia 11:12 (F/8)
June 14
Babes Blagoevgrad – Angels Dupnitsa 0:7 ff
Angels Dupnitsa – Lions Sofia 19:0
Babes Blagoevgrad – Lions Sofia 7:0 ff
June 21
Babes Blagoevgrad – Athletic Sofia 0:7 ff
Standings National Championship
- Angels Dupnitsa 5:1
- Athletic Sofia 6:2
- Babes Blagoevgrad 4:4
- Akademiks Sofia 3:3
- Lions Sofia 0:6