Das NLB-Team empfängt am Samstag, 30. Juli den Tabellenführer Wil Devils im Baseballstadion Heerenschürli. Spielbeginn ist um 11.00 und 14.00 Uhr.

The NLB-Team lost to the last placed Jona Bandits on Sunday, July 17 at Rapperswil-Jona. The rain cooled down the C’s offense, as they had only one hit, as the Bandits posted a 4-2 victory. Game 2 had to be postponed as the showers got heavier. With the loss the C’s dropped to fourth place with a 6-5 record.

The NLB-Team played against the first-placed Bern Cardinals on Sunday, July 10 at the Heerenschürli ballpark. After the Cardinals posted a 18-7 victory in Game 1, the Challengers answered with an impressive 22-6 win in Game 2. The C’s remain in third place with a 6-4 record.

The NLB-Team split with the Zurich Barracudas on Saturday, June 25 at the Heerenschürli ballpark. The Barracudas took a 9-1 lead in Game 1, but the C’s cut the defict to four runs and loaded the bases again in the seventh inning, but couldn’t cash in, so that the Barracudas held on for a 9-5 win.
The blue and red answered in Game 2, as they posted a 11-4 victory over the Barracudas. The C’s remain in third place with a 5-3 record. They will host the Bern Cardinals on July 10 at the Heerenschürli ballpark.

The NLB-Team added another victory to its record, as the Chalengers beat the Wil Devils 13-7 in Game 1 of their double-header on Saturday, May 28 at Wil. And the C’s came close to their fifth win of the season, as Orlando Balbuena drove in Alex Gordon to tie the game at 7-7 and send it into extra innings. An RBI-single by Kurt Kovac and a two-run single by Adrian Kämpfer made it 10-7, but the Devils answered with an RBI-single by Gianluca Trüb, before Manuel Keller belted a three-run sayonara homerun for a dramatic 11-10 win for the Devils. The Challengers have now a 4-2 record.

The NLB-Team lost for the first time in 2011, as the Zurich Barracudas posted a wild 10-8 victory over the Challengers on Wednesday, May 18. The two teams combined for 14 hits, but also 13 errors and three unsuccessful suicide squeeze plays. The game saw four lead changes till the Challengers tied the game again at 8-8 in the bottom of the eight inning, as Gabe Staub scored on a wild pitch. But the C’s threw it away, as Stefan Spring and Farid Bekkali made it 10-8 on the last two errors from a sloppy Challengers defense.
Yanik Probst, Kurt Kovac and Alex Gordon had two hits apiece, while Fabio Aimi pitched 3.2 innings of relief, giving up one hit and one run with two walks and six strikeouts in his debut in a Challengers uniform.

Das NLB-Team bestreitet am Mittwoch Abend im Baseballstadion Heerenschürli wiederum ein Night Game gegen den Stadtrivalen Zürich Barracudas. Vor Wochenfrist kamen die Challengers beim Duell unter Flutlicht zu einem 16-6 Sieg gegen die Barracudas. Spielbeginn ist um 19.00 Uhr im Heerenschürli.

The NLB-Team improved its record to a perfect 3-0, as the Challengers posted a 16-6 victory over the Zurich Barracudas on Wednesday night at the Heerenschürli ballpark. The Barracudas built a 5-0 lead till the first half of the third inning, as a shower caused a 20 minutes rain delay. And the rain washed away all doubts, as the C’s started a 2-out rally in the bottom of the third frame, scoring 4 runs to make it 4-5. The Barracudas scored one more run in the fourth, but from there reliever Yanik Probst shut the door, while the Challengers scored twelve unanswered runs to eventually win 16-6. Daiki Sato went 3-for-4 and Gabe Staub had three hits with three RBI’s, while Probst tossed 4.1 shutout innings for his first win of the season.