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The correspondent of Mark Nance / Sun-Gazette, the Aruba launcher, Arnold Gismar Martha, launched in the Friday match against the Panama at the Little League World Series at the Volunteer Stadium. The Caribbean regional champions had to cross an extremely hard Caribbean region to go to South Williamsport. This understood to have to face Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Curacao, three countries that have extremely talented teams and programs.
To say Santa Cruz, Aruba had a difficult tournament to regional to go to the Little League World Series will not even start to do him justice.
Try a brutal schedule in the Caribbean region.
Cuba. The Dominican Republic. Curacao.
And despite this, Aruba has always gone through the regional with a 4-1 file and, more importantly, a trip to the Little League World Series.
“ARUBA compared to other regions, you cannot invent everything. We come from a border that has 1,400 people, not children. We have six teams from the small league and making the six team tournament, prepare them to face Cuba, who, I think, gets a free pass because they have so many children who play baseball,” said Aruba Arendsz manager. “I like it, I like competition. It’s good for them, they become better taken for future competitions. If they go to university or anything, I think it’s really good for them. ”
Aruba opened the tournament at the regional championships with a 3-0 victory against the Dominican Republic, perhaps heading in their first match. Then came a 5-3 victory against Cuba, another nation known for solid baseball.
Pariba was the first team of Regionals to give Aruba a defeat, 8-3, in the third game of the team.
Aruba simply rocked and rebounded with a 2-1 victory against Pabao, Willemstad, Curacao in the semi-finals and still beat the Dominican Republic, this time in the league match, 9-7.
This is only the third appearance to the series of the little island nation. After reaching the tournament in 2011, Aruba returned last year and is again here with Arendsz at the helm.
“Poeple in Aruba, including myself, cannot believe it. The Caribbean are a difficult region. I don’t know how many times Curaao is here,” said Arendsz. “This year, we had the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Curacao, and we have always come to the lead. We went against Curacao in the semi-finals, in the final against the Dominicans. The trip was long, but I think we were very well structured not that we.
In addition to Arendsz, the player of Aruba Diliano Raven is back for a second consecutive year.
“Last year, I was more nervous of course, but I feel very comfortable this year because I feel like I have more experience,” said Aruba’s interior field player. “I am one of the biggest guys this year and I am really calmer.”
Arendsz also talked about his stay here in the series for the first time in 2024.
“I was coach of the team of last year and it was surreal. It is the Little League World Series, you just hear about it,” said Arendsz. “I have never visited. I came as a coach and Touist. This year, we must not prepare, so I think that has helped us a lot. ”
This preparation has aruba against perhaps its most difficult test this summer: Chinese taipei. The regional champions of Asia-Pacific and the regional champions of the Caribbean clash at the volunteer Stadium Monday evening at 5 p.m. in what should be an exceptional competition between two very talented teams.
“We watched (their match) against Mexico. It was a very good match. I think Mexico held up well and that all this brings that Taiwan brings: they bring pitch, they bring power, the little game, the game of bruant,” said Arendsz about Chinese Taipei. “We made them spot, I think we have what it takes to lead a very good fight against them.”
Aruba also has options against Chinese taipei. The good news for Aruba is that they will not have to face the dominant AS known as Lin Chin-Tse, which can reach 80 on the mound.
Aruba has launchers Jayderick Wederfoor, Anthony Santos and Rylan when available to launch.
“We just have to like to see how Taiwain will react against fast bullets,” said Arendsz. “If they react well, we have guys who can launch bad breakdown fields.”
