Equally as impressive offensively as their countrymen from Stuttgart, the Paderborn Untouchables routed the North State Warriors 15-1 in game two. Paderborn exploded for nine runs in the top of the first inning, as it took advantage of three North State errors, while collecting seven hits. Merlin Bendlin led off the game with a double and Zan Primozic followed his hit up with a triple, which sparked the offense. Both hitters finished the game an impressive 7-for-7 with six runs scored and seven RBI, while Bendlin hit a home run.

Host Stuttgart, Germany rolled to victory over the defending European Zone Champion Paris University Club in the tournament’s first game 20-0. The Reds broke open the game in the top of the first inning, when they scored eight runs. They would later do the same in the top of the fourth. The top-three hitters in the Reds’ order, Fabian Beck, Fridolin Fink and Moritz van Bergen all recorded multi-hit, mutli-RBI games, as both Fink and van Bergen knocked two doubles each on the day. Stuttgart split the pitching duties between four players, who worked five innings, led by Yannick Witt, who got the win.

Ab dem 1. Mai werden wieder Bälle quer über den Schnarrenberg geschlagen: Nach der erfolgreichen Premiere im vergangenen Frühjahr ist die Landeshauptstadt in die-sem Jahr zum zweiten Mal Gastgeber, wenn sich die besten Baseball-Nachwuchs-mannschaften Europas messen. Vom 1. bis zum 5. Mai spielen acht Teams um den Titel, der in diesem Jahr erstmalig auch zur Teilnahme an den Weltmeisterschaften in den USA berechtigt. Mit dem europaweit einzigartigen PALOMINO 18U European Tournament werden die Stuttgart Reds also erneut ihrem Ruf gerecht, Vorreiter im Baseball-Sport in und um die Region Stuttgart zu sein.

Neben den Titelverteidigern aus Paris und den Stuttgart Reds als Gastgeber kommen die Mannschaften aus Paderborn, den Niederlanden, Polen, der Schweiz, Belgien und Großbritannien. Das Turnier auf dem Schnarrenberg findet großen Anklang in Base-ball-Europa, die limitierten Teilnehmerplätze sind so begehrt, dass sogar einige Teams abgelehnt werden mussten. Das Teilnehmerfeld ist also hochklassig besetzt und ver-spricht spannungsgeladene und mitreißende Spiele.

After having received a cancellation from one team just before the end of the year 2018, finally hosting Baseball Club Stuttgart REDS managed to confirm that all teams are set for the 2019 European Qualifier of PALOMINO 18U age group to be played from May 1st until May 5th.

Besides host Stuttgart REDS (Germany) and last year’s winner Paris University Club (France), participating teams will be National Teams from Poland, Switzerland and Belgium, a select Team Netherlands United Baseball and club teams from Paderborn Untouchables Germany and London Mets from Great Britain.

Earlier this week, during PONY’s annual Board of Directors Meeting, it was announced that the 2019 Palomino World Series in Laredo, Texas would be expanding from an eight-team tournament to a 10-team tournament. The Board decided to award one of the two new automatic qualifying bids to the PONY Palomino European Zone Champion.

 “This is a significant step forward to provide additional opportunities for our members in Europe,” said Abraham Key, PONY Baseball and Softball President & CEO. “European baseball is progressing, as witnessed by their Colt League World Series championship in 2017, and we are excited to take this next step in our commitment to baseball in Europe.”

We are pleased on behalf of PONY and Stuttgart REDS Baseball Club, Stuttgart, Germany to invite European youth baseball teams to the 2019 PALOMINO European Zone Tournament. This tournament, in its second edition develops to an 8 team tournament in 2019 and continues the tradition of existing PONY and COLT and now PALOMINO tournaments held every spring. This 2019 PALOMINO tournament will take place in Stuttgart REDS DB Ballpark, Germany for the age group 18U and teams with players according to the latest PALOMINO age, in 2019: born September 2000 to August 2004 included.

At the first ever international tournament for under-18s hosted by TV Canstatt’s baseballers, the team from Paris prevailed over both the London team and the TV Canstatt host team, the Stuttgart Reds.

Top class baseball was to be seen at the DB Ballpark. The world baseball organization PONY (Protect Our Nation’s Youth) worked with TV Canstatt to organize the U18 tournament, named ‘Palomino’. Future tournaments will serve as an open European championship, to enable teams to qualify for annual world championships to be staged in the US. This coveted opportunity isn’t yet available for the winners of this tournament. Chief organizer Andre Fink of the Stuttgart Reds, however, hopes soon to receive a positive message from Washington that Europe will gain this starting place and that TV Canstatt will be the annual host of this internationally important event.