The NLA-Team opened its preseason at the rain-shortened Embrach Spring Tournament on March 28 and 29. On Saturday the C’s lost their only game of the weekend 6-11 to the Zurich Barracudas. All the other games had to be cancelled due to rain.

The friendly games of the Softball Team on Sunday, March 29, against the Augsburg Dirty Slugs and the Herrenberg Wanderers, both from the First German Bundesliga had to be cancelled as well.