Ukrainian baseball Championship 2016 finished
On the 18th of September the last game of Ukrainian Baseball Championship took place. This event took place on the main baseball field in Kropyvnytskyy city. The multiple champion of Ukraine “BioTexCom” team won the game. Its opponent was bronze medalist, young team from Rivne city “Zahidnyy Vohon”. The game was finished with the final score 17-0!
Since 1995 baseball team from Kropyvnytskyy city, “BioTexCom”, won the title of Ukrainian Championship for 21 times! Several times the name of this baseball club was changed: HORN, KDTU, KNTU, KNTU – Yelisavetgrad… However, not long ago team’s name was changed again. Now this team is called “BioTexCom”. But all these years the team was ruled and trained by professionals Oleg and Urii Boiko. During all these years, players Syvyrynchuk Pavlo, Nelipa Dmytro and Deykun Ruslan are the main players of the team.
This year debutant Andriy Boiko received his first gold medal of the competition. Now, in the family of the club’s head coach there are three Ukrainian Champions: Roman, Kostiantyn and Andriy Boiko. To tell the truth, such cases can be found rarely in baseball history.
Another member of the Kropyvnytskyy baseball school, “Diamant” team won the title of silver champion. They were second due to defeating “ATMA” (17-9, 16-0, 10-7), famous team from Kiev. Bronze medal was given to “Zahidnyy Vohon”. And finally “ATMA” appeared on the fourth place.
All coaches and baseball players are thanked for their hard work during trainings and participation in the Championship. Good luck in future games!
I didn’t think they even play baseball in the Ukraine. I grew up in the US as a fan of the game and the waiting is actually when the really interesting parts of the game are going on. It’s like complaining that a chess match has very little actual moving of pieces. I watch some games. And I consider them being rather interesting. There was a truly game of coach versus coach turn based strategy and more. The actual plays were rolling the dice in an RPG. And it can be seen how well they actually do and give an element of chance that is influenced by each player’s characteristics. I think my favorite thing about baseball is that it’s one of the few sports that have to be played until it’s over, the others coming to mind would be tennis or golf. In so many other sports you can get up near the end of the game and waste time and keep the ball away from your opponent to ensure a win but in baseball you could be down a run going into the bottom of the ninth and the other team still has to get three outs against you to win.
The result of the game with bronze medalist is really impressive. The BioTexCom team victory was fairly considerable. As it turns out, their sponsor is quite popular among Ukrainian medicine service. Of course, it is also their merit too. Currently, the sponsor of the team is the Center of Human Reproduction. By the way, the team bears the same name as the Center. And as for Boyko`s family, they are really professionals. So much talents in one family. It is clearly, that such highly qualified coach can raise really good players.