James Sanders tossed eight magnificient innings, Tobias Siegrist delivered three hits and drove in three runs, and the Challengers find themselves all even with the Therwil Flyers in the best-of-five semifinal series.
After dropping the opener 2-10 on Saturday at Therwil, the C’s had 13 hits en route to a 9-5 victory over the Flyers in Game 2 on Sunday, August 30 at Embrach. The Flyers scored their first run in the third inning, but the C’s answered with three runs of their own in the bottom half of the frame on singles from Angel Maduro, Ueli Von Burg and RBI-singles from Sanders and Siegrist. After two RBI-doubles from Siegrist and Jesus Martinez in the seventh frame to make it 5-2, the C’s added four insurance runs in the eight to put things out of reach for the Flyers.
Game 3 will take place on Saturday, September 5 at Therwil, Game 4 is scheduled for Sunday, September 6 at Hünenberg.