Belgium Presents Roster for European Championship

In an e-mail with loads of information, the KBBSF (Royal Belgian Baseball and Softball Federation) announced the roster of the Red Hawks, the Belgian national team.

The intriguing part of this roster is that it contains hardly any foreign players. One to be exact. Compare this to “Israel” and “Greece,” which both have over 90% of foreign players on its roster.

For the Dutch baseball fans, there are several familiar players, who (have) play(ed) in Dutch baseball: Benjamin Dille (Curaçao Neptunus), Dennis de Quint and Jamie Verheyleweghen (both former Oosterhout Twins) and Matthew Joossens (farm team of Oosterhout Twins).

For the German baseball fans among us, Drew Janssen will be a familiar name. He played with the German champion, Heidenheim Heideköpfe and performed pretty well both at bat as on the mound. He did not play a lot but struck out ten batters in only six innings.

This roster is a good mix of players from several clubs:

1	Desmedt Kevin P	Brussels Kangaroos
2	Driessens Artuur P	Brasschaat Braves
3	Hendrickx Zane P	Hoboken Pioneers
4	Larrinaga Ocampo Jose Luis P	Deurne Spartans
5	Oberto Silva Tomasz P	MSG Phoenix
6	Van Den Branden Kenny P	Hoboken Pioneers
7	Verspreet Brendan P	Hoboken Pioneers
8	Roevens Robin P/IF	Brasschaat Braves
9	Janssen Drew P/IF	US College
10	Heymans Arthur C	Namur Angels
11	Poesmans Axel C	Brasschaat Braves
12	Kaschl Nathan C/UTL	Brussels Kangaroos
13	Ballardini Lino P/IF	Brasschaat Braves
14	De Brauwer Zion IF	Borgerhout Squirrels
15	De Quint Dennis IF	Hoboken Pioneers
16	Dille Benjamin IF	Rotterdam Neptunus
17	Goffaux Benjamin IF	Hoboken Pioneers
18	Verheyleweghen Jamie IF	Brasschaat Braves
19	Verspreet Xander IF	Hoboken Pioneers
20	Boermans Sam UTL	Borgerhout Squirrels
21	Devreese Quentin OF	MSG Phoenix
22	Joossens Matthew OF	Oosterhout Twins
23	Poesmans Yves OF	Brasschaat Braves

Staff:

1	Filip Van der Meiren	Fieldmanager
2	Kevin Knollenburg	Coach
3	Marc Janssen	Coach
4	Andy Berglund	Coach
5	Paco Garcia	Coach
6	Christophe Dassy	Coach
7	Kevin Roevens	Physio/Trainer