Women's Softball WBSC African/European Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2019

[CCB 519]

Dutch team is very weak suddenly. Too bad, because they were the best European team in the past years.

 

A loss today means GB and Italy will play for the Olympic quota. 

[phelps 7,410]

1 minute ago, CCB said:

Dutch team is very weak suddenly. Too bad, because they were the best European team in the past years.

 

A loss today means GB and Italy will play for the Olympic quota. 

 

not necessarily...

 

game over! this was really unexpected!

 

chapeau to this British team

Edited July 25, 2019 by phelps

[dcro 10,193]

Dutch probably won't qualify even if they win against Italy. I think concieving 5 runs against GB is too much...

Edited July 25, 2019 by dcro

[dareza 911]

Nice chance for italy, buut they have to beat maybe both teams for quota.

[JoshMartini007 2,367]

Huge upset by Great Britain, I don't think Italy is safe either. Netherlands needs to go big against Italy to have a chance.

[phelps 7,410]

Just now, dareza said:

Nice chance for italy, buut they have to beat maybe both teams for quota.

 

sure, because now they play NED on Friday night before playing GB on Saturday (at the infamous time of noon CET, because NED will still play the last game at 3 p.m. CET)...

 

and this means that we have to give everything twice in a few hours...an "all or nothing" match up against NED would have been a lot better for us (we could have used other pitchers against GB and keep Cecchetti fresh for the OQ decider, now probably we have to waste her on Friday night and rely on Cacciamani (who's good, but not that good) on the platform against GB...

[CCB 519]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Dutch probably won't qualify even if they win against Italy. I think concieving 5 runs against GB is too much...

I think so too. Too many runs against (5). 

 

Did GB have different players than at the Europeans last month? 

[phelps 7,410]

6 minutes ago, CCB said:

I think so too. Too many runs against (5). 

 

Did GB have different players than at the Europeans last month? 

 

GB ECH roster

http://competition.europeansoftball.org/2019/ostrava/rosters.php?roster=gbr

 

GB OQT roster

https://olympicsoftball.wbsc.org/en/2019/e-2019-europe-africa-softball-olympic-qualifier/teams-and-rosters/GBR

 

p.s. both games were started by the same pitcher for GB (Georgina Corrick, who earlier today had a CG, meanwhile in Ostrava she was forced to come out after 4 innings)...

Edited July 25, 2019 by phelps

[szy123 79]

Wow, I thought GB could make some upset here, but I'm still surprised

[ofan 237]

Wow, hats off to Team GB. I thought that the Dutch team had this quota in the bag