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NIEUWS
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ALGEMENE VERGADERING
Aangezien wij een vzw zijn, moet ik jullie weer eens lastigvallen met de moeder aller administratieve verplichtingen, de algemene vergadering. Maar geen nood we gaan ook nog leuke dingen doen die avond, zoals daar zijn eten, drinken en awards uitdelen.
De AV zelf gaat door op zaterdag 21 november 2009 om 18u00 op't Sportkot.
El presidente
Johan
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WINTERTRAININGEN STARTEN OP ZONDAG 8 NOVEMBER
Training starten om 17u tot 19u in de volledige zaal van De Nayer
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TWINS KEEP ON TRACK
Er was geen gevaar meer dat we ons eerste doel zouden mislopen, namelijk deelnemen aan Promo 2, en dat zag je in de eerste innings. Eventjes was de typerende drive van de Twins weg. Bottom twee stonden we zelfs achter met 2-1 na een error op derde base. Kris moest hard werken voor de outs; rare heuvel en grillige strike zone.
Na een flinke yell zat het vuur er terug wat in en kwam alles weer goed op dreef. Runs werden binnen gehaald met slimme at bats: 3-8. Freek zorgde met 15 pitches voor een punteloze 4de slagbeurt van Wielsbeke. In bottom vier kon Wielsbeke de runs niet meer tegenhouden. Eindscore: 3-18
En nu naar Promo 2, dat zal andere koek zijn!
• support your local shop
& hamburger place!!!
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ARTIKELS
(26-05-2008)
UMPIRE HIT BY BAT, LEAVES GAME
HOUSTON -- Veteran umpire Jerry Crawford left Sunday's game at Houston in the first inning after getting hit in the head with a bat.
Houston's Carlos Lee swung at a pitch from Philadelphia's Cole Hamels, but Lee's follow-through on the swing struck Crawford on the top of head. Crawford walked to the Houston dugout, where he was attended to by team medical personnel. He was sent to Methodist Hospital for further tests.
"I had a CAT scan done, I'm in good shape," Crawford said in the umpires' room after the game, as he held an ice pack to his head.
Although he had a gash that did not require stitches, Crawford has a contusion, but has been cleared to resume umpiring duties on Monday.
(21-05-2008)
MIKE PIAZZA RETIRES AFTER 16 SEASONS
Mike Piazza, the self-made great who set Major League records for home runs by a catcher and for perseverance, formally announced his retirement from the sport on Tuesday.
Piazza, 39, made the decision seven months after he had become a free agent without receiving any appealing offers to prolong what almost surely will have been a Hall of Fame career.
Piazza's announcement drew quick reaction from the people touched by his career, such as Mets chairman and CEO Fred Wilpon, who saluted him "for his Hall of Fame caliber accomplishments in our game and with our team."
Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves -- Piazza's chief rivals both in his Dodgers days in the old National League West and later as a Met in the NL East -- called him "the best offensive catcher I've ever seen."
Piazza's afterthought selection by the Dodgers in the First Year Player Draft -- he was player No. 1,390 chosen, as a personal favor to Los Angeles manager Tom Lasorda, his godfather through a friendship with the family -- endured as the amazing backdrop to a 16-year career that produced 427 homers and a lifetime .308 average.
Of those home runs, 396 came as a catcher to shatter the previous record at the position, Carlton Fisk's 351. Next on that list are Johnny Bench (327) and Yogi Berra (306). All three are in the Hall of Fame.
"It has been an amazing journey," Piazza said in a lengthy statement released by his Beverly Hills, Calif.-based agent, Dan Lozano. "So today, I walk away with no regrets."
(20-05-2008)
JON LESTER'S NO-HITTER
Just two years after beating cancer, left-hander Jon Lester threw the 18th no-hitter in Red Sox history -- and the fourth of this decade -- by blanking the Royals, 7-0, at Fenway Park for the first complete game of his young career. Jason Varitek was behind the plate, setting a Major League record by catching his fourth no-hitter.