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Aruba’s Softball team
beats Argentina for the second time
and lands their 5th victory
ARUBA’S National Softball team has been extremely successful in Bogota, Jomark Flanegin lands his first international victory. The Aruban selection is a
mix of young talents such as Dijendrick Croes, 18 years of age, Jomark Flanegin
Colombia shining a positive light on Aruba. 19 yearso f age, Jean Franco Wouters, 22 years of age, Giandrick Lacle, 22 years
After going through many intense months of preparations our team travelled to of age and 5 other experienced athletes between the ages of 23 and 27 and some
Bogota, Colombia on August 1 to compete in 10 games in the CONSURSA cham- older competitors like Nunn and Poy Flanegin who are both 35 years of age.
pionship to try to win a medal for Aruba.
CONSURSA is the ISF and WBSC renowned Latin-American Confederation. Our Aruba Softball Federation’s vision is to qualify for the Central American and Carib-
athletes worked hard and used their own money to get this far and try to achieve bean Games which will take place from July 20 to August 3 2018 in Baranquilla,
their dreams. Colombia. ASB is planning to work hard to keep our athletes motivated during
Aruba fought on and managed to turn themselves into a strong and worthy com- the progress of achieving this goal.
petitor. Argentina is known for their sublime pitching, but still couldn’t beat Aruba ASB is extremely proud of the way our national selection is playing and predicts
and Aruba finally managed to beat Argentina with a score of 9 to 0. that they will bring home the bronze medal if they keep up their game. Softball
is developing well in Aruba.
ARUBA TRAVELLER - Monday, August 10 2015 7LOCAL
