There are just 80 days remaining before the Swiss Softball National Team will take the field at the World Championships in Surrey, Canada.\u00a0 A record-setting 31 nations will be competing for the world title. Switzerland is among 11 countries who making their world championships debut.<\/p>\n
The Swiss National Team will be in the first round of pool play together with top-ranked Australia, Mexico and Serbia. The schedule of games is not yet set.<\/p>\n
The Team is busy preparing for the big competition they will face. On Sunday, April 17, under less than ideal weather conditions, the team played an inter-squad scrimmage.\u00a0 The goal of the day was to assess players in different positions and to choose a starting line-up for the next contest. The team will travel to Attnang-Puchheim, Austria over Pentecost to play in the Finkstonball tournament.<\/p>\n
Preparatory practices are scheduled throughout May, June, and July. A double-header against the Dornbirn Sharx is scheduled for June 19, at 13:00 and 15:30. Flyers player\/coach, Meli Wanner (former national team player) is also helping to organize a game in Therwil between the National Team and the Import Players end of June\/beginning July.<\/p>\n
The team will travel to Surrey, Canada on July 13, to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to represent their country on the world stage.<\/p>\n
Auswahl_SB_16<\/a><\/p>\n Flikstonball: http:\/\/www.finkstonball.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n World Championship: https:\/\/surrey2016.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are just 80 days remaining before the Swiss Softball National Team will take the field at the World Championships in Surrey, Canada.\u00a0 A record-setting 31 nations will be competing for the world title. Switzerland is among 11 countries who making their world championships debut. The Swiss National Team will<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[125,42,173],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23040,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039\/revisions\/23040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.swiss-baseball.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}