Indoor – 360 Softball Europe

Dream Team ESSL Winter Champion 2016

Marc Stein — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:52:22 +0000

With the third tournament win in a row the Dream Team from Ljubljana won the ESSL Winter Championships of the 2015/16 season. It was the first ESSL winter tournament series. On four tournaments 9 teams from four different countries participated in this series.

All tournaments took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Tournament winners
November 2015: Bulldogs Novo Mesto, link: game results
December 2015: Dream Team Ljubljana, link: game results
January 2016: Dream Team Ljubljana, link: game results
February 2016: Dream Team Ljubljana, link: game results

Particpating countries: Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, USA

Final Rankings 2015/16

Dream Team is taking the lead

Marc Stein — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:19:54 +0000

With the second tournament win the Dream Team from Ljubljana is leading the ESSL indoor tournament series with 12 points ahead of the Bulldogs from Novo Mesto (10 points).

Final ranking of January tournament

1. Dream Team (Slovenia)
2. Bulldogs (Slovenia)
3. Dragons Aviano (USA)
4. Ammo Hellhounds (USA)
5. Bloody Bats (Slovenia)
5. Los Coyotes (Austria)

Links:

Next tournaments in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Saturday, 13th of February 2016

Dream Team win second indoor tournament

Marc Stein — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:32:39 +0000

Dream Team win the second ESSL Open Winter Indoor Tournament in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With no loss they collected 5 points by winning the tournament. Now they are tied with the Bulldogs from Novo Mesto in the overall winter ranking, Both teams have 7 points.

2nd Tournament Ranking

1. Dream Team (Slovenia)
2. Ammo Hellhounds (USA)
3. Bulldogs (Slovenia)
4. Bloody Bats (Slovenia)
5. Stallions (Slovenia)
6. Giants (Croatia)

Links:

Next tournaments in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Saturday, 16th of Januray 2016
Saturday, 13th of February 2016

Picture: © BSK LJUBLJANA-Baseball&Softball klub

Bulldogs win indoor tournament

Marc Stein — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:11:57 +0000

Bulldogs from Novo Mesto (Slovenia) won the first ESSL open indoor tournament with a 12:4 win against the Aviano Dragons (USA). With the win the Bulldogs showed that the recovered well from their end of season troubles in the ESSL.

It was the first time an US team from Aviano participated in an indoor tournament. Despite the early troubles with the ceiling (out: if a ball hits the ceiling) the Dragons had a lot exciting games and fun. Aviano’s coach: “For us it was a great experience and we already plan to participate in the next indoor tournament in December”.

For all 5 teams the tournament was a big success. Unfortunately, the team from Croatia wasn’t able to attend this time. However, for the next tournaments other teams from Europe already line up to travel to Ljubljana. At the indoor tournaments you can play, socialize and meet great people and everything is in one place – field, accommodation and party area.

After the award ceremony all players enjoyed the player’s party until the bar closed

Final Rankings

1. Bulldogs Novo Mesto
2. Aviano Dragons
3. Dream Team Ljubljana
4. Bombers Ljubljana
5. Bloody Bats Ljubljana

Link: Game Results

Next Tournaments

Saturday, 12th of December 2015
Saturday, 16th of Januray 2016
Saturday, 13th of February 2016

Place: Sports BIT Center, Litijska 57, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

ESSL Open Indoor Tournaments

Marc Stein — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:22:23 +0000

In winter slowpitch continues with 4 indoor tournaments played in the Sport Center BIT in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The open slowpitch tournaments will be played on one field (50m x 35m) and they are limited to 6 teams. At all four tournaments teams collect points for the overall winter ranking.

ESSL Tournament Dates

Saturday, 21st of November 2015
Saturday, 12th of December 2015
Saturday, 16th of Januray 2016
Saturday, 13th of February 2016

Place: Sports BIT Center, Litijska 57, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Field: 1
Players on the field: 9

Interview Guzzlers (ESSL Champions 2014)

Marc Stein — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:16:26 +0000

Interview with the Guzzlers (ESSL champions 2014).
Team stats: Guzzlers

When was your team founded?
The Guzzlers Softball Club just celebrated their 25th anniversary of participating in International softball. The European chapter of the Guzzlers was formed in the fall of 2013. Please see http://guzzlerssoftball.com/about.html for complete history.

In which city is your team located?
The base of our team is located outside of Kaiserslautern Germany, although we have players spread throughout Europe.

Give us a short history of your team
2014 was the inaugural year for the European Guzzlers, we participated in every ESSL tournament as well as 10 other US military tournaments around Europe. Although the travel was fierce, that is what we all love to do. Travel and Play Softball.

What do you expect from this season and what are your goals?
I expect competition to grow in the ESSL from last year and for it to grow each month of this 2015 season. All the teams have talent that is maturing. Our goals are to simply put the best competitive team on the field that we can and enjoy the wonderful venues and comradery that the ESSL provides.

What do you think of the ESSL?
I think the ESSL is matured beyond its age. The website, organization, diversity of teams is amazing and well thought out. Even more so that 2014 was the first year. We thoroughly enjoy meeting and spending time with the teams and people of different countries and cultures that we would never meet if it wasn’t for the love of playing softball.

How do you see the future of the ESSL?
I see the future of the ESSL flourishing. With the framework that is in place from the inaugural year there is no reason that the ESSL will not grow into something bigger. I personally would like to see other regions of Europe participating in some fashion.

Guzzlers Europe ESSL Champions 2014