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Women’s Softball European Championship 2022 - Official Payoff

Defined the top 6 Women's Softball teams in Europe

Defined the top 6 Women's Softball teams in Europe
27/07/2022
Today's games defined the top 6 teams at the 2022 Women's Softball European Championship: Great Britain, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Spain.

The best six teams in Women's Softball are now defined: Great Britain, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Spain.

Pool E
Great Britain (5-0) dominated the pool E, winning all five games played in the second round robin. The British National Squad won for the first time ever against Italy at the senior European Championship edging the Azzurre 2-1 in Sant Boi. Great Britain won all other games by mercy rule. 

The defending champion Italy (4-1) is the second team in the pool E, with a record of four games won and just one loss against Great Britain. 

The third team to make it to six teams fighting for a medal is Israel, losing only against the British and the Italian national teams, and topping Ireland and France.

Pool F
Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Spain won the pass to group X and will have the possibility to fight for a medal.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands crushed all the teams they faced, topping the Czech Republic (7-0), Poland (0-16), Greece (1-8), Slovakia (0-12), and Spain (2-7), scoring 57 runs and only allowing 3. 

Czech Republic won all games by shoutouts, allowing no runs but to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to which they lost 7-0. 

To close the group, home team Spain entered the top 6 of the 2022 Women's Softball European Championship. On the first day of the second round robin, Spain obtained the victory that secured them the top 6, edging Greece, 2-1, in Montjuic. 

Germany, Ireland, France, Greece, Poland, and Slovakia will play to define the standings from the seventh to the twelfth spots.

Group G
Austria and Croatia are leading group G, while Ukraine is following. More games will be played on Thursday, July 28, and Friday, July 29 to define the standings from the thirteenth to the twenty-first spots.

All the games of the Women's Softball European Championship were streamed on the WBSC Europe YouTube Channel.
Find all the results and standings on the WBSC Europe website.
The photo galleries can be found on the WBSC Europe Flickr profile or on Softball Europe Facebook Page.