CUL-DE-SAC, St. Maarten (July 27, 2012)—The four-day softball knockout for corporate and government sporting teams hosted by the PJIAE Sporting Club concluded at the John Cooper-Jose Lake, Jr., Ballpark on Sunday, July 29.
In the final matches on Sunday, PJIAE defeated the Fire Department with a score of 19-8 and a combined government departments team with 19-9, which brought the airport’s team steps closer to a championship victory in the finals.
The final game of the knockout was between the airport team and the undefeated GEBE team. The utility company’s team delivered an outstanding performance to win the match, 18-9.
GEBE captured the championship of the Business Softball Knockout and PJIAE won the sub-champ trophy.
At the award ceremony on Sunday night, immediately following the final game, PJIAE’s organizing committee member Evans Marsham thanked the six teams for participating. He said that he hopes that the sporting club could host another softball tournament in 2013. PJIAE’s Special Projects manager Clifton Brown said that he was “very proud” of his team.
“This is the first time PJIAE hosted a softball knockout; it took no more than two weeks to organize the teams,” said Anastacio Baker, PJIAE’s Quality Assurance Manager and softball player.
According to Marsham, the “PJIAE sporting team will be organizing a public walkathon on September 1, 2012 and a Corporate Basketball Tournament at the end of September.”
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