Hard bulls

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Hard Bulls
founded in 1991
Full name
Hard Bulls Baseball & Softball Club
abbreviation
Bulls
Nickname (s)
The Bulls
Club colors
black-red-gray
Ball park (s)

Ballpark Hard

president
Andreas Rudigier
Members
approx. 120
successes

State champion 2001, winner B-Pool European Cup 2002 in Nagykanizsa (Hungary), Participation A-Pool European Cup 2003 in Barcelona (Spain)

Website : www.hardbulls.com

Hard Bulls is a baseball club from Hard in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .

history

The association was founded in 1991. In 2000 they made it to the Austrian Baseball League , the first baseball league. In the following year, the first and so far only state championship title in the club's history was celebrated. In 2002 they celebrated the vice state championship title and the victory in the B-Pool European Cup in Nagykanizsa, Hungary . Due to this success, the Bulls were allowed to go to Barcelona (Spain) for the A-Pool European Cup in 2003 to compete with the best teams from Europe. In 2005 he was relegated to the regional league. It was not until 2010 that the Bulls were able to return to the BBL (German Baseball League). There it was enough for fifth place in 2011 (10 wins and 14 defeats) and third place in 2012 (12 wins and 8 defeats). The Hard Bulls ended the 2013 season with 19 wins and only one loss. They secured the championship title in the BBL and qualified for the promotion playoff. The promotion was denied to you after the third place in the promotion playoff. In 2014 the Bulls did not start the season as dominantly and only ranked 4th after half of the season (5 wins, 6 defeats). At the end of the year there were 12 wins and 8 losses, which meant third place in the table. This obliges to participate in the lower playoff in which you play against relegation from the BBL. These relegation playoffs ended the Bulls in first place. Overall, the third place in the BBL in 2014 is book. For the new season, in 2015, Clemens Cichocki, a multiple Austrian national team player, was signed. In the half of the 2015 season, the Bulls were in first place in the table with 9 wins and 1 loss. You could defend this until the end of the regular season. The 2015 regular season ended with 18 wins and 2 losses. This qualified for the promotion playoff to the ABL. The Bulls ended this 2015 with 6 wins and 6 losses. The ascent was ultimately missed for a win. So the Bulls play in the BBL again in 2016. In 2016, the Bulls finished the regular season again in first place and took part in the promotion playoffs for the third time. There they reached second place and thus made it to the Austrian Baseball League. So after 2004 the Bulls make it back into the top division. In the Baseball League Austria , as the top division in Austria has been called since 2017, the Bulls finished the regular season with a record of 12 wins and 14 losses. You reached the playoff, but where in the quarterfinals against the Stockerau Cubs was the last stop. This placed sixth out of ten teams in the final accounts.

In 2018, after 10 wins and 16 defeats in the regular season, they missed the playoffs and ended the season in 8th place out of 10 teams.

In 2019 you could move into the playoffs again. The basic round was completed with 9 wins and 15 losses, which was enough for second place in the West division. In the playoffs you had to win the Wr. Neustadt Diving Ducks are beaten. Thus, the Bulls finished the season in 5th place, the best result in the top division since 2nd place in 2002.

The Bulls report teams in the Austrian Bundesliga, the Vorarlberger Landesliga and the youth league. The U16 team celebrated its greatest success to date with second place at the Austrian U16 championships in 2017. The U13s achieved third place in the Austrian championships in 2016. The U18 also came third in 2019. The Bulls currently hold 3 medals at Austrian junior championships.

Squad

Squad of the fighting team for the 2019 season:

Placements in Austria since 2000

  • 2000 - Master BBL-West / promotion to the ABL
  • 2001 - Master ABL (Austrian Master)
  • 2002 - Vice-Champion ABL (Austrian Vice-Champion)
  • 2003 - 5th place OJ
  • 2004 - 8th place ABL (relegation)
  • 2005 - Champion RLW (Regional-Liga-West)
  • 2006 - Master RLW
  • 2007 - RLW runner-up
  • 2008 - Master RLW
  • 2009 - Master LLV (Landesliga Vorarlberg)
  • 2010 - Master RLW (promotion to the BBL)
  • 2011 - 5th place BBL Baseball Bundesliga (Austria)
  • 2012 - 3rd place BBL
  • 2013 - 1st place BBL (promotion missed)
  • 2014 - 3rd place BBL
  • 2015 - 1st place BBL Baseball-Bundesliga (Austria) 2015 (promotion missed)
  • 2016 - 1st place BBL promotion to the ABL Austrian Baseball League
  • 2017 - 6th place in the Baseball League Austria
  • 2018 - 8th place in the Baseball League Austria
  • 2019 - 5th place in the Baseball League Austria

Individual awards since 2010

See also

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