On Monday at the Circolo Dipendenti Sanità, the first senior baseball and softball teams of the Oltretorrente baseball and softball group, “Ciemme” Oltretorrente and “Taurus Donati Gomme” Old Parma, were presented, which will participate in the Serie A baseball and Serie A1 softball championships.
The presentation conducted by the journalist Gianluigi Calestani was attended by the president of the Oltretorrente baseball and softball group and Coni Point trustee Andrea Paini, Antonio Bonetti, Coni Point Provincial delegate, Stefano Manuto, Sport delegate of the Municipality of Parma, Nicola Cesari, Sport delegate of the Province of Parma and Gaetano Maluberti sponsor of baseball with the company “Nuova Pulichimica”.
In baseball that will debut in the league on Sunday 3 April in Senago, the new manager Victor Enrique Montoya Palacios, absent due to bureaucratic problems with a team currently entrusted to coach Massimo Melassi, on the roster are the Venezuelan pitcher Angel Alberto Duno Rodriguez and the receiver – Italian – Venezuelan winger Giovanny Andres Rosales Motta.
In the softball squad of confirmed Cuban manager Jorge Navarro, who will make his home debut on Saturday 2 April against the reigning Italian champions of Forlì, new signings are the ex Caronno Benedetta Scotto winger and the Cuban receiver Rosangela Jardines Castillo who will compose a battery of the Caribbean national team with confirmed pitcher Yamelkis Guevara. During the presentation, Andrea Longagnani’s return to the Oltretorrente baseball and softball group was also made official. He will occupy the role of technical coordinator of the entire softball sector from the youth to the first team.
THE DECLARATIONS
Andrea Wrestling (president of the Oltretorrente baseball and softball group and Coni Point trustee): “This evening (yesterday) we present our flagship teams despite the absences for health reasons of Paolo Poi, president of Old Parma and our friend and sponsor Corrado Marvasi hospitalized. In baseball we have some problems with the passport of the new manager Montoya with the team that is currently entrusted to Melassi. The goal of both teams is to achieve a peaceful salvation, what will eventually come more will be very welcome, all in the enhancement of the products of the nursery as demonstrated by the 5 grafts in baseball of the Italian Under 18 champions of the year. last”.
Stefano Manuto (Sport delegate of the Municipality of Parma): “The municipal administration wants to be close to events and sports such as baseball conclave in Italy at the top and at the base, proof of cohesion and great commitment for boys and girls, social vehicle and aggregation . These two teams are the landing place for the young men and women of the youth teams ”.
Antonio Bonetti (Coni Point provincial delegate): “I wish everyone to obtain great satisfaction, you can be a point of reference for the youth and sports teams of the province of Parma”.
Nicola Cesari (Sports delegate of the Province of Parma): “I respect the Oltretorrente Group very much with so many young people, whoever defines baseball as a minor sport does not understand a bat. As a Province we try to always be at your side and your support.
Maximum Molasses (coach Ciemme Oltretorrente): “We have a renewed team compared to last year with young Italian Under 18 champions. We are looking for confirmation of their abilities because the result is the result of the quality of the work”.
Jorge Navarro (manager Taurus Donati Gomme Old Parma): “Last year we almost touched the play-offs at some point, we will try to work intensely with confidence to get the best possible result. We have two Cuban nationals in the team, the pitcher Guevara and the former Caserta Jardines receiver ”.
Andrea Longagnani (technical softball coordinator): “I come back to this club after having been a manager for two seasons in the past. I am going back to a club where I have found myself well, now that I also coach the Under 18 and Under 22 national teams here I will carry out the role of technical coordinator starting from the youth teams. I believe it is a harmonious choice from little girls to seniors. I will work closely with the coaches and I believe that the results will be seen in the medium / long term ”.
Maurizio Renaud (sporting director Oltretorrente baseball): “We have implemented a trend reversal compared to the past by including many young boys from the nursery of the Italian Under 18 baseball category in 2021 with the aim of making them grow”.
Gaetano Maluberti (baseball sponsor with Nuova Pulichimica): “I have always had relationships with so-called minor sports that have nothing minor. I believe that the task of companies is not only that of profit but also that of social issues “.
Roster Ciemme Oltretorrente series A baseball
Pitchers: Luca Capellano, Angel Alberto Duno Rodriguez, Marcello Gremi, Alvaro Montes.
Receivers: Marco Ragionieri, Giovanny Andres Rosales Motta
Interiors: Gianmarco Cannata, Michele Ghidoni, Emanuele Lori, Nicola Spagnolo, Federico Tiburtini
Outsiders: Filippo Bianchi, Sebastiano Catellani, Tommaso Ghidoni, Giacomo Manghi, Michele Pomponi, Davide Signorastri.
Roster “Taurus Donati Gomme” Old Parma A1 softball series
Pitchers: Alice Ghillani, Yamelkis Guevara Limonta, Martina Magnani, Lucrezia Moretti
Receivers: Rosangela Jardines Castillo, Melissa Mazzoni
Interiors: Sara De Luca, Nicole Gaita, Benedetta Mori, Elena Slawitz, Valentina Tagliavini
Exteriors: Ilaria Chiari, Giulia Fattori, Anne Chimambo Yapo, Benedetta Scotto, Giulia Turatta
