Italy won the Gold Medal clinching the European Championship Final on Sunday defeating the Netherlands 9-5. Italy now moves on to compete for the grandest Gold of all starting July 20 in Tokyo at the Olympic Games. While the Netherlands settled for the Silver, the Czech Republic rounded out the medals with a bronze defeating Israel 2-0. Guilia Longhi from Italy had the the highest batting average for the Euro Championship hitting .667 for the event. Erika Piancastelli from Italy also led the event in home runs with six. The Czech’s had some impressive showings in the circle as both Katerina Kindermannova and Veronika Peckova led the way with the lowest ERA (0.00 by Kindermannova) and most strikeouts (65 by Peckova).
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