Ireland in the final!
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Fri, 2006-08-04 16:48.
As I mentioned the other day, the Irish national baseball team made it to the 2006 European Championships. Well check it out!
Ireland have realised part of their dream and reached the final of the Qualifying section of the European Championships. In the early game at 10 am they showed they can play ball with the big boys losing out narrowly to Croatia and in the afternoon semi final they stunned the home town Belgian side with a superb 4-1 victory on the back of West Virginia College star Brendan Bergerson and some excellent defence, including an outstanding double play turn started by Irish Team veteran Darran O’Connor.[…]
It’s Croatia again in the final now for Ireland. On the 10th anniversary of the Irish National team’s inception the boys in green get a chance at the Gold Medal for the first time, and a chance to spend next summer playing the best teams in Europe. Oh, and they spent last weekend beating one of those teams in their back garden. Let’s see what tomorrow holds.
Update
An unfortunate result in the Final, but I think we can say it was quite the achievement to reach the game at all. Well done, lads!