Italy won the international tournament on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Softball in Bollate. They shut out the Italian Softball League club Sanotint Bollate 3-0 in the final game on Tuesday afternoon. Leslie Malerich captured her third win of the four-day event by allowing just three hits in seven scoreless innings. She struck out eight. Ilaria Pino scored two of the three runs for Italy.
The Prague All-Stars took third place after losing 0-7 to Bollate in the semi-finals. Jocelyn McCallum had struck out ten in six two-hit innings to lead Sanotint to the finals. The Czech Republic finished in fourth place after crushing France 14-0 in five innings in the classification game. Katerina Dvorakova went three-for-four with four runs scored and three RBI.
The tournament lasted from Saturday thru Tuesday and featured 15 games of high-class Softball. Malerich received the award as best pitcher of the tournament for a perfect 3-0 record with an ERA of 0.00, giving up just two unearned runs on 13 hits and four walks in 21 innings. She struck out 24. Tereza Jakesova of the Czech Republic picked up the best batter trophy. She batted .563 (OBP .588/SLG .563) with seven runs scored and two RBI. Bollate’s Brenda Da Blaes was named MVP for batting .467 (OBP .636/SLG .667) with a homerun, eight runs scored and three RBI in seven games.
Final Standings:
- Italy
- Sanotint Bollate
- Prague All-Stars
- Czech Republic
- France
Complete Statistics and Box scores are available on Scorekeepers.org
For more information go to the official tournament website
Photo: Bagattini/FIBS