Weekend Recap

Cuban National Series

Here are the results for the week end, series by series:

Pinar del Rio won 2 of the 3 games with Matanzas (5-3, 1-10, 12-4)
Isla de la Juventud took 2 of 3 against Metropolitanos (9-11, 7-2, 9-7)
La Habana swept Cienfuegos (6-5, 12-2, 8-2)
Sancti Spiritus swept Industriales (12-6, 5-3, 13-3)
Ciego de Avila took 2 of 3 against Villa Clara (7-3, 2-3, 15-4)
Camaguey beat Las Tunas in 2 of 3 games (8-1, 8-10, 13-4)
Holguin took 2 of 3 from Granma (9-8, 3-7, 10-6)
Santiago de Cuba won 2 of 3 with Guantanamo (7-5, 6-2, 1-3)

The current standings looks like this: (Team, GB)
Oriental
La Habana -
Pinar del Rio 9.5
Isla de la Juventud 11.5
Metropolitanos 13.5
Matanzas 15.5
Sancti Spiritus 16.5
Industriales 18
Cienfuegos 22.5

Occidental
Villa Clara -
Ciego de Avila 1
Santiago de Cuba 4.5
Holguin 6
Camaguey 12
Granma 15
Guantanamo 16.5
Las Tunas 18

Taiwan

The CPBL season got underway this weekend with 3 games taking place over Saturday and Sunday. 10,000 fans witnessed the season opener in Tainan City, where the host Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions defeated the Brother Elephants by a score of 5-1.

On Sunday the Elephants avenged the opener, shutting out the Lions by a score of 7-0. Down in Kaohsiung, hosts La New Bears defeated the Sinon Bulls by a score of 12-8.

Saturday
Elephants 1 4 2
Lions 5 12 0
WP: Wei-Lun Pan (1-0)
LP: Kobayashi Ryokan (0-1)
HR: Elephants - Peng-Chen Min (1), Lions - Wu-Hsiung Pan (1)


Sunday
Bulls 8 15 1
Bears 12 13 3
WP: Si-Yo Wu (1-0)
LP: Shoda Itsuki (0-1)
HR: Bears - Long-Yi Huang (1), Chin-Feng Chen (1)

Elephants 7 12 0
Lions 0 5 1
WP: Yu-Cheng Liao (1-0)
LP: Chris Gissell (0-1)


Here are the current standings:
1. Bears 1-0
2. Elephants 1-1
2. Lions 1-1
4. Bulls 0-1