Brescia Baseball Softball: the 2024 season presented.
Brescia Baseball Softball: the problem of lack of spaces
During the presentation press conference it was highlighted that Brescia no longer has a baseball field:
“For five years now we have been forced to make real “flips” to continue our business. Among the imaginable thousand difficulties and thanks to the active collaboration of the local Municipal Administration we have managed to restore the abandoned softball field of Marcheno (town of Valtrompia about 30 km from Brescia) so as to be able to play at least the home games of the minibaseball, under 12 and Serie B softball teams 15, under 18 and Serie A have played their respective championships entirely away (as already done in 2020, 2021 and 2022). There have now been well over 330 consecutive matches played outside our Municipality by our teams teams instead concentrated on a field hockey field which, obviously not being suitable for our sport, severely limits the carrying out of correct practices”.
Sports results
“In 2023, seven teams from Brescia participated in their respective championships (increasing compared to the previous year): Serie A, categories under 18, under 15, under 14, under 12, minibaseball, softball, Serie B, involving more than 120 people including athletes, technicians and managers. It is worth remembering that the excellent work done in over 30 years of activity has led us to participate in the ninth consecutive Serie A championship in 2023, the top division of Italian baseball; a team made up entirely of athletes from Brescia (except one) and technicians from our city. An exceptional result, therefore, the result of work lasting over 14 years.”
“Unfortunately the 2023 championship ended with the relegation of the first team. The absence of a baseball field for five years now is weighing heavily and has certainly had a decisive role in last year’s results. The senior team represents only the The most visible aspect of the entire Brescia baseball movement; every year hundreds of children try our sport thanks to various projects that we have been offering for some time in many city schools and to the municipal courses in which we regularly participate who had the honor of wearing the uniform of the Italian national team”.
Brescia is one of the main cities in Lombardy
“Brescia certainly represents one of the main Lombardy realities of our sport, despite not having a baseball field. While the national senior baseball championship is naturally national in scope, those of the youth categories are mainly regional in scope. The will of the municipal administration and the Lombardy Region to find a permanent accommodation for our numerous members and not to disperse a thirty-year sporting heritage seems to have materialized in the identification of an area that could host the only baseball facility in Brescia and its province. The identified area does located in the southern area of Brescia extremely close to an underground station which would also allow for future development as it could also potentially host a softball field for the activities of girls and younger athletes”.
“Brescia baseball and softball have been facing this absurd situation for five years now, making unimaginable economic, organizational and logistical efforts. We therefore trust that the local authorities will finally be able to reach a unity of purpose and want to build the only baseball facility of Brescia and the province which would guarantee the survival of our consolidated and rooted realities which have amply demonstrated that they can achieve top-level sporting results”.
2024-04-17 06:23:25
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