The 1.Liga-Team (4-4) will open the weekend with asingle game against the Romanshorn Submarines (5-3) on Saturday, June 21 at 10am at Romanshorn.
The Softball-Team (7-1) will face the Rümlang Kobras (6-2) on Sunday, June 22 at Rümlang Rümelbach. The games start at 11am and 1.30pm.
The Zürich Pilots , the U12-Juveniles-Team with players from the Embrach Rainbows, Zurich Lions and the Challengers travels to Therwil on Sunday, June 22 where they will play against the Berner Bears and the Rümlang Kobras. The games start at noon and 2pm.

In the 3rd round of this year’s Swiss Cup, the Challengers lost the final game at the Heerenschürli 13-3 against their cross-town rivals Zürich Barracudas. Nderim Coma dominated the Challengers’ bats, and Andi Rüesch came up big for the Cudas with two homers and two singles in four trips to the plate, collecting six RBI’s along the way. It was the very last game on the Old Heerenschürli field before the renewal of the Heerenschürli sports facilities. The opening of the new field will take place in spring 2010.

The Challengers were beaten by the Bern Cardinals 11-5  and 21-4 in the first two games of the Playoff Finals. While the first contest was a close affair, Game 2 was over after four innings, due to many mistakes in the Challengers’ defense. Now the team needs to find a way to win three straight to prevent the Cardinals from winning their third straight title.
Game 3 will take place in Bern on September 29.

Die Challengers machten die Überraschung im diesjährigen Swiss Cup perfekt indem sie die Favoriten Bern Cardinals mit 6-2 schlugen und damit ihren zweiten Cuptitel nach 2004 errangen. Das Finalspiel war der passende Höhepunkt eines von den Therwil Flyers perfekt organisierten Wochenendes. Thomas Burger lieferte eine herausstehende Leistung ab, indem er das gesamte Spiel durchpitchte. Seine Verteidigung half ihm dabei mit sehenswerten Spielzügen. Fünf Hits im vierten und ein Error in achten Inning trugen zu allen nötigen Punkte für die Challengers bei um den Titel zu holen. Im vorangegangenen Halbfinal besiegten die Challengers die Lausanne Indians mit 19-7, dies unter anderem durch die super Leistung von Starting Pitcher Harry Bregy und Reliever Geovanni Ureña. Die Meisterschaft nimmt ihren Betrieb wieder am 1.September mit den Playoff Halbfinals auf, wo die Challengers auf den Sieger des Doubleheaders zwischen den Zürich Barracudas und Reussbühl Eagles treffen werden.

The Challengers split the doubleheader against their cross-town rivals Zurich Barracudas on Sunday. The Challengers used some big hits to win Game 1 14-11. Thomas Burger pitched six innings for the win, while Thomas Landis picked up a save in three innings of work. Game 2 was a back-and-fourth battle, with the Challengers taking a 3-0 lead that got erased by a big six-run sixth inning by the Barracudas. The Challengers regained the lead in the top of the ninth by scoring four times for an 8-6 lead. But the Cudas came back in bottom half, getting the winning run on a sac fly by Nderim Coma for a 9-8 win. The Challengers have locked up second place for the Playoffs, while the Barracudas still have to battle for third place against the Reussbuhl Eagles on August 25.

The Challengers made one more big step towards a second-place overall finish in the standings by beating the Embrach Rainbows twice in Saturday’s doubleheader. Game 1’s big hero was Saentis Zeller as he went 6-for-6 with five doubles, setting a new franchise record, in a 15-7 win. Thomas Burger pitched a complete game for his fourth win of the season. In Game 2, Harry Bregy dominated the Rainbows, while the offense continued to pound on Rainbow pitchers, winning 16-1 in six innings. Zeller added two more doubles in a 3-for-5 performance. The Challengers now stand at 12-6 before the final doubleheader against the Zurich Barracudas on August 5.

The Challengers will face the Embrach Rainbows on Saturday, July 28 at the Heerenschürli, in what will be a rematch of last Sunday’s Swiss Cup Quarterfinal. After the C’s reached the Cup’s Final Four Tournament with a 8-3 victory, they will try to add two more wins to consolidate their second place in the standings. The games start at 11am and 2pm.

After missing the final tournament of the 2006 Swiss Cup edition, the Challengers’ NLA-team got back on track this year by beating the Embrach Rainbows 8-3 in the Quarterfinals. Tobias Siegrist with a 2-run-homer and Bryan Shemley with a groundrule-double, that also scored two runs, led the offense, while starter Thomas Burger pitched 8 decent innings, allowing 2 earned runs on 7 hits and 5 walks, fanning 9 batters.

The Challengers’ NLA-team lost two crucial games against a strong Lausanne Indians team. The Indians’ batters were swinging pretty well all day, and the Challengers couldn’t withstand the scorching heat and the painstaking minute-long discussions with the Indian players, going down 11-4 and 13-10. At several points of the doubleheader, the Indians were on the verge of one of their players getting sent off the field. Discussions after each pitch that didn’t go the Indians’ way made the second contest of the day an extremely long and forgettable one. One positive of the weekend was the Barracudas’ surprising 11-3 loss to the Embrach Rainbows, enabling the Challengers to maintain a 1-game lead over their arch rivals for second place overall. In Sunday’s other doubleheader, the Bern Cardinals wrapped up their second consecutive pennant by beating the Sissach Frogs 13-2 and 17-4.

The Challengers became the second NLA-team this season with double figures in the Win column by beating the Sissach Frogs twice on Sunday. In Game 1, Thomas Burger pitched the entire nine innings in a 6-2 win. Both runs were unearned, making his performance even more remarkable. Game 2 was dominated by Harry Bregy, who tossed his first career shutout in the NLA in a 9-0 win. Only six Frogs reached base, but none of them was able to score. Bregy improved his record to 4-0 on the season. The Challengers now have a firm grip on second place in the standings with a 10-4 record, trailing only the Bern Cardinals’ 13-1 mark. In other games this weekend, the Reussbuhl Eagles roughed up the Therwil Flyers 7-2 and 16-5, and the Cardinals pounded the Embrach Rainbows 15-1 and 21-3.