By Pavol Mozola and Goran Supraha
2013 season of InterLeague is playing together West and South division with following teams
Croatia teams:
- BK Zagreb
- Vindija Varazdin
- Olimpija ‘83 Karlovac
- Nada SSM Split
Hungary teams:
- Aeros Erd
- Sleepwalkers Szentendre
- Warriors Obuda
Slovak teams:
- Angels Trnava
- Apollo Bratislava
- Fighting Flies Bratislava
- Slovan Bratislava
Playing system which will be played – 10 games for each team in Round Robin and Final four tournament (September 15th&16th in Croatia), south division clubs will play one more round against each other and have a semifinal tournament (September 6th,7th & 8th) with Serbian champion Beograd
Final standings 2012 season
1. Angels Trnava
2. Nada SSM Split
3. Olimpija Karlovac
4. Apollo Bratislava
Results week 1, April 13, 14:
Apollo Bratislava vs Sleepwalkers Szentendre – 16 : 6 (7)
Angels Trnava vs Sleepwalkers Szentendre – 17: 2 (5)
Warriors Obuda vs Slovan Bratislava – 6:0
Aeros Erd vs Fighting Flies Bratislava – 11:6
Fighting Flies Bratislava vs Warriors Obuda – 14:4 (7)
Slovan Bratislava vs Aeros Erd – 16:1 (5)
Game reviews:
Slovan Bratislava vs Aeros Erd – Slovan exceeded their opponent in defense and in ofense, and after five innings take easy win 16:1.
Slovan started with young pitcher Juraj Jánov with 1 run in 3 1/3 inn. Continued Šimon Procháczka with two SO and closing Martin Strapko. Reliable defense allowed one hit. Slovan with 11 hits and 5 doubles.
Warriors Obuda vs Slovan Bratislava – On Sunday fight Slovan with significantly higher quality opponent – champion of Hungary. One of the best InterLeague pitcher Zsolt Zalabai allowed 5 hits and 2 BB only. Warriors batters scored 6 runs and easy win 6:0.
In 6th showed excellent fielding on center Juraj Feher, when caught fly hit of Zalabai at two outs and occupied the second and third, which would mean at least 2 runs. A number of promising contacts could eliminate opponents reliable defense.
Fighting Flies Bratislava vs Aeros Erd – Flies started with young pitcher Šimon Filipovič allowed 4 runs. Flies offense could not score more than 6 runs and Aeros win 11:6.
Fighting Flies Bratislava vs Warriors Obuda – Flies pitchers allowed 4 runs and offense after slow start added 14 runs. Warriors – played second game this day – don’t heve energy to turn score.
Schedule:
April 20th
16:00 Vindija vs Nada at Varazdin
11:00 Warriors vs Apollo at Erd
14:00 Aeros vs Apollo at Erd
11:00 Sleepwalkers vs Slovan at Szentendre
14:00 Sleepwalkers vs Fighting Flies at Szentendre
April 21st
11:00 Aeros vs Angels at Erd
14:00 Warriors vs Angels at Erd
Info links:
Croatian Baseball Association
Hungarian baseball federation
Slovak baseball federation