Israel at the 2016 European Baseball Championship

Israel at international baseball competitions

Teams Israel national baseball team
Results

Israel competed in the qualification for the 2016 European Baseball Championship.

During the C-Level qualifier, Dean Kremer was named the Euros’ Most Valuable Pitcher. During the two games he pitched, he pitched 13 innings, giving up only 6 hits, no runs, one walk, and struck out twenty.[1]

Simon Rosenbaum was named MVP after hitting .529, along with four homeruns, giving him a 1.294 slugging percentage, in addition to scoring ten runs, collecting 10 RBI and had three stolen bases.[1]

Israel led teams at competition in almost every statistic possible during the C-Level qualifiers. They led in hitting with a .309 average, .450 on base percentage, .509 slugging percentage. They also were the leaders in runs with 53, home runs with 9 and hit by pitch with 20. In addition to hitting they led in ERA with 1.05, strikeouts with an average of 11.5 per nine innings, opponents batting average with .140 and fielding percentage of .973. Israel was tied for stolen bases with 23, which Romania led with 26. The only other statistics Israel did not lead in were walks and doubles.[1]

C-Level qualification

At the 2016 European Baseball Championship Israel entered the qualification at the C-Level. After finishing in first place during the Group B round, Israel moved on to the C-Level finals.[2]

Group B

Standings

Teams W L Pct. GB
 Israel 3 0 1.000 0
 Slovenia 2 1 .667 1
 Finland 1 2 .333 2
 Latvia 0 3 .000 3
Qualified for Final Stage
Did not qualify fot Final Stage

Games

July 29, 2014 Finland  1 – 13 Israel 
Attendance: 60
Boxscore
July 30, 2014 Israel  9 – 0 Slovenia 
Attendance: 125
Boxscore
July 31, 2014 Israel  9 – 3 Latvia 
Attendance: 32
Boxscore

Final stage

During the C-Level finals stage, the top two teams move on to the B-Level qualification. As the first place finisher, Israel moved on to B-Level qualification.

Standings

# Teams
1  Israel
2  Slovenia
3  Romania
4  Ireland
5  Hungary
6  Finland
7  Latvia
8  Norway
Qualified for B-level Tournament.

Semifinals

August 1, 2014 Israel  8 – 3  Romania Ljubljana, Slovenia
Attendance: 78
Boxscore

Final

August 2, 2014 Israel  14 – 0  Slovenia Ljubljana, Slovenia
Attendance: 257
Boxscore

B-level qualifier

After qualifying for the B-Level qualifier after finishing in first place during the C-Level qualifier, Israel competed in the Group A.[3] The top team from each of the two groups would move on to the tournament. With Israel placing third in their group, they were eliminated.[4]

Group A standings

Teams W L Pct. GB
 Sweden 4 1 .800 0
 Austria 4 1 .800 0
 Israel 3 2 .600 1
 Lithuania 2 3 .500 2
 Belarus 1 4 .200 3
 Poland 1 4 .200 3

Source: [5]

Games

July 27, 2015 Israel  13 – 1  Belarus Vienna
Attendance: 50
Boxscore
July 28, 2015 Poland  6 – 8 Israel  Vienna
Attendance: 130
Boxscore
July 29, 2015 Israel  10 – 1 Austria  Vienna
Attendance: 780
Boxscore
July 30, 2015 Israel  5 – 7 Lithuania  Vienna
Attendance: 250
Boxscore
July 31, 2015 Sweden  9 – 8 Israel  Vienna
Attendance: 500
Boxscore

Roster

## Name Position B/T CI DOB
6 Dean Kremer P/OF R/R SR 07/01/1996
8 Oren Gal IF R/R SR 19/07/1987
10 Jonathan Isaac OF R/R SR 10/07/1989
12 Josh Weiss OF R/R SR 26/12/1981
13 Tal Erel P/C R/R SR 16/06/1996
15 David Weiss OF R/R SR 12/09/1994
19 Aric Weinberg OF L/R SR 18/12/1985
20 Yuli Tzippin P/OF R/R SR 02/08/1993
21 Ophir Katz C/OF R/R SR 03/04/1987
22 Amit Kurz C/IF R/R SR 20/08/1988
23 Orr Gottlieb P/OF R/R SR 27/09/1981
25 Yotam Ben-Amram P/OF R/R SR 25/07/1997
28 Alon Leichman P R/R SR 29/05/1989
32 Dan Rothem P/IF R/R SR 03/12/1976
33 Eitan Maoz C L/R SR 21/12/1989
35/7 Nate Fish IF R/R SR 02/01/1980
36 Shlomo Lipetz P R/R SR 11/02/1979
39 Simon Rosembaum P/IF R/R SR 28/12/1993
37 Richard Kania Manager
Peter Kurz General Manager
40 Jake Rabinowitz Coach
4 Zuzana Srejberova Coach

Source:[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Israel Dominates C-Level European Championship
  2. ↑ Qualifier European Championship C-Pool in Ljubljana: Final Day, August 2, 2014
  3. ↑ Qualifier European Championship Seniors C-Level to be played in Ljubljana, Slovenia this week
  4. ↑ Sweden wins B-Level European Championship in Vienna
  5. ↑ Standing Pool A
  6. ↑ ISRAEL Team Roster
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