{"id":19622,"date":"2017-03-23T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19622"},"modified":"2017-03-22T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:59:33","slug":"british-baseball-beat-hsl-and-spring-university-baseball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19622","title":{"rendered":"British Baseball Beat: HSL and Spring University Baseball Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/BBB.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10509\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/BBB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>British spring training officially got underway last weekend with the Herts Spring League competition.<\/p>\n<p>The hometown Falcons and Hawks got impressive wins against the South London Pirates and Milton Keynes Bucks respectively, whilst Kent Mariners, Birmingham Bandits and Tonbridge also started their pre-seasons with a victory apiece.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/hertsbaseball.com\/events\/herts-spring-league\/schedule\/#.WNLNVqKkLIU\">weekend&#8217;s games<\/a> include a debut for the Taunton Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>They will be joining Triple-A this season and have a chance to measure themselves against National Baseball League opposition in the form of the South London Pirates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HSL2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HSL2017<\/a> is underway. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KentMariners?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kentmariners<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrackBlazers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BrackBlazers<\/a> Inferno <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKqcueQV0F\">pic.twitter.com\/XKqcueQV0F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Herts Baseball Club (@HertsBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HertsBaseball\/status\/843045049470500865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Leagues taking shape<\/h2>\n<p>Some of the BBF league structures are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbaseball.org\">up on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the already-announced top-tier National Baseball League &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Triple-A South Division<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Richmond Knights will be looking to defend their Triple-A crown, competing again with the Oxford Kings, London Mammoths and Essex Redbacks. They&#8217;ll be joined by another team out of the thriving London club &#8211; the Meteorites &#8211; and the Taunton Tigers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Double-A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will include three pools: South A and B and a Central division.<\/p>\n<p>Daws Hill Spitfires are the reigning champs and their South A pool is the same as in 2016 except for the addition of the reigning Single-A champs: the Herts Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks met the Tonbridge Wildcats in the Single-A final last year and Tonbridge will also be stepping up a level in 2017, moving into the B Pool.\u00c2\u00a0 Details on the Central division are still to be published at time of writing, as are the Single-A pools.<\/p>\n<h2>UCLU win the NUBC!<\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations to the <span class=\"st\">University College London<\/span> Baseball team after they captured their first National Spring University Baseball Championship at Farnham Park last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The defeated, Loughborough Baseball Club, 1-0 to take the prize. Loughborough will be hoping to bounce back this weekend as they compete in the Spring University Softball Championships.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NUBC17?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NUBC17<\/a> winners <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCLU_Baseball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UCLU_Baseball<\/a> and runners-up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LboroSB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LboroSB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0kGSf311M\">pic.twitter.com\/G0kGSf311M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hit The Pitch (@HitthePitch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitthePitch\/status\/843524461995397120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British spring training officially got underway last weekend with the Herts Spring League competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-19622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-beat","tag-british-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19624,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622\/revisions\/19624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}