The Rouen Huskies have won their 10th championship in the French Division I. On Sunday they won the best-of-five series 3-2 against the Templiers Senart thanks to a 5-2 victory in game five of the series. In game three on Saturday the Templiers had prevailed 4-0 behind a strong pitching effort by Leonel Cespedes and Henry Leyva. Rolando Betancourt drove in two of the four runs.
On Sunday the Huskies first tied the series with a 7-3 win in game four. They scored four runs in the first and three in the seventh to decide the outcome. Luc Piquet scored twice. Boris Marche drove in two. Betancourt hit a three-run home run for Senart. In the decisive fifth match Rouen scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth to erase a 0-2 deficit en route to a 5-2 win. Joris Bert and Brian Ramirez combined to drive in the five runs. Yoann Vaugelade went the distance for the win.
Rouen has won the French championship in 10 of the last 11 years.