Prambors wins first softball league title

Prambors wins first softball league title

Moch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Prambors of Jakarta won on Sunday the title of the first
Indonesian Softball League after defeating Citra Muda of Jakarta
4-3 in the grand final.

Prambors took a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but it was
unable to score again until the fifth inning.

Citra Muda did not score until the fifth inning.

Both teams scored once in the sixth inning to make it 3-1, but
Citra Muda scored two clutch runs in the top of the seventh
inning to tie it at 3-3.

However, Prambors got the winning run in the bottom of the
seventh win 4-3.

Tommy Pratomo of Prambors, who was also the Most Valuable
Player (MVP) of the first Softball League, was elated that his
team won the title.

"It's a good result for our team and also for me who won the
MVP," said the 36-year-old after the match.

Six teams participated in the first Indonesian Softball
League. They were Citra Muda, Prambors, Bumi Asri of Bandung,
NISP of Bandung, Gorgeous of Bandung and Sriti of Surabaya. The
last two -- Gorgeous and Sriti -- were eliminated in the first
round.

Four teams -- respectively in terms of seedings based on the
results from the first round: Citra Muda, Prambors, Bumi Asri and
NISP -- went to the final four on Saturday.

The finals used the double elimination system, in which leader
Citra Muda met second ranked Prambors in the first match on
Saturday with Prambors winning 11-2 to secure a berth in the
grand final.

In the second match, third seeds Bumi Asri went against NISP,
and NISP won 6-3.

Citra Muda then met NISP on Sunday morning with Citra Muda
winning 11-5 to meet Prambors in the grand final. In the grand
final, Prambors proved that it was the strongest team.