2023-07-03 18:28:30
The team that represents the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) was proclaimed this weekend champion of the first Superior Press Softball Tournament, defeating the boys of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) in the second game of the final playoff. ).
A total of 15 hits were connected by the so-called Metropolitans on the grass of the field, to leave the score 13-5 in their favor, complete the sweep and reach a crown that they had lost in the provincial tournament for journalists.
Annel Martínez carried the weight of the offense by driving in four runs and firing three hits in four visits to the plate, one of them beyond the limits of the field.
Iván Abreu, 4-2, also disappeared the soft ball over the fences to drive in a trio of runs and José Méndez singled and two doubles in four chances to bring home two teammates.
Yunel Suárez, who has become the workhorse of this team, asked for the ball again and launched four innings to take the credit.
“I am very happy because they gave me the chance to open these two final games. We had that pending debt from the previous championship and we did it,” Suárez told Cubaperiodistas when the match ended.
“My strategy was to vary the speed and throw in the doubt zone. They are good players, I know them from other tournaments and everything went well for me, the victory came, ”he added.
The helmsman of the defeated, Alex Díaz Jr., renowned sudden artist and general director of the Oralitura Habana project, left his final impressions as he knows best, in tenths:
Another tournament ends
from the press. And there are already champions!
Between fielding, home runs
and excellent pitching
has lifted the trophy
the ICTR team.
A final where it was
friendship the winner
Although I didn’t win now
as runner-up I won.
Each referee with his sight
millimeter: “It’s strike.
It’s ball. No, there isn’t
foirfet. Let’s play, chronicler,
reporter, journalist
Play and feel happy.
Defend to the root
the championship you are in
that this is the most
important in the country.”
The Vikings, the AHS,
and the MININT, great rivals.
But ICRT in finals
does not believe in opposites it seems.
The press to the tournament offers
a sports theater.
I idolize softball
on Saturdays I oxygen.
See you on the ground
in 2024!
In the middle of the celebration, Annel Martínez, who in addition to being the most valuable player of this game is the president of the league, stressed the importance of the competition, especially since it brought together several professionals from the press who had not joined the previous event.
“It has served to create the quarry of the National Media squad that will participate in the XXI National Tournament for journalists, to be held this year in the province of Holguín. From here the preselection will come out and for the second half of September the team will be announced ”, he pointed out.
The director and player thanked, on his own behalf and on behalf of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), the management of the Félix Elmusa Social Circle (Náutico), for hosting the tournament at its facilities and the excellent attention they received there.
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