Earlier this week the Dutch Baseball and Softball Club UVV in Utrecht announced that Berend Mannessen is taking over as head coach of the Women’s Softball Team, which finished in fourth place in the so-called Overgangsklasse, the second division in Netherlands Softball, with a 16-1-19 record. Mannessen is coming from the Haarlem-based DSS, where he was at the helm in the past two years and where he was named Coach of the Year in 2009 after leading them back into the Hoofdklasse. UVV also confirmed assistant and pitching coach Marcel Drent as well as team manager Monique Burger.