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Coach Mike Renney on 2018 ESCA!

Coach Mike Renney will be travelling from Canada where he has recently retired from a 24 year career as the Simon Fraser University Head Softball Coach at Canada's only NCAA school.

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70 participants, 43 players, 27 coaches, 15 different European countries

ESCA Camp Director message:

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Marjolein Merkx - pitching instructor on ESCA 2018!

My name is Marjolein Merkx, I am a pitcher for about 15 years now and playing on the highest level the last 7-8 years. Enjoying every single opportunity to spread the love for the game to others and especially the pitching part. I was at the ESCA camp last year and I totally loved it, therefor signed up for the next year right away to help again with the camp and pitchers.

19/10/2018 1 Minute Read

Carolien Stadhouders - guest speaker for ESCA 2018 - umpires view!

Carolien Stadhouders is former international softball umpire and was active in many European Championships and Cups, 4 World Championships and several other international tournaments between 1996 and 2011. In 2010 she worked the final at homeplate in the Women’s Worlds in Venezuela, a highlight in her umpiring career. During her umpiring years she was also active as umpire instructor in the Netherlands. After she quit umpiring on an international level she was appointed UIC (Umpire in Chief) and Umpire instructor for the ESF. Since 2017 she is the Director of Umpires in ESF and in that role also WBSC SD Regional umpire coordinator for Europe.

19/10/2018 2 Minute Read

6 teams ready to battle for 3 three spots in tough Group B

The managers from Korea and Venezuela made a bold statement about their goal in the tournament: win the U-23 Baseball World Cup. However, the six skippers expressed a lot of respect about their opponents in the Group B of the Opening Round

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U-23 Baseball World Cup: Day 1 photo gallery

This photo gallery contains pictures of 6 games: Mexico-Chinese Taipei, Venezuela-Australia, Japan-South Africa, Korea-Czech Republic, Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic, Colombia-Netherlands

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U-23 Baseball World Cup – Group A Preview: Colombia, Mexico, Japan aiming to ‘win it all’

Three of the six teams competing in group A of the WBSC U-23 World Cup make no mistery: they came to win. Statements by managers Atsunori Inaba (Japan), Jair Fernandez (Colombia) and Juan Enrique Reyes (Mexico) were the highlights of the group presentation press conference in Barranquilla, Colombia. “We won it all in 2016” said […]

18/10/2018 1 Minute Read

Judith van den Berg as one of the instructors on the ESCA 2018!

About Judith

18/10/2018 1 Minute Read

Diana Remmers as guest speaker on ESCA Camp 2018!

Diana Remmers is former player of the Dutch national softaball team and used to play in the Dutch Golden League for 12 years for the clubs Terrasvogels and Twins. With these teams she won 2 European championships, 5 national championships and 5 European cup titles. After she quit playing she started her coaching career in 1996. In the past 22 years she was coach of several (youth) teams and the Dutch National Softball Team under 19.

18/10/2018 1 Minute Read

Baseball, softball attract kids during Olympic Week

Baseball and softball made their debut in the Olympic Week in 2017. The edition 38, that finished on 18 October 2018 in Lausanne, Switzerland, saw over 200 kids in the age bracket 8-15 attend during each of the four days of activities