31/03/2025
After four+ months of winter training, the London Monarchs played our first tournament a few weeks ago in Barcelona at the annual Catalunya Baseball Week. This is a massive tournament with 11 teams at the U18 level and 16 each at the U15 & U12 levels across ten different diamonds.
We are incredibly proud of our players. They played hard, respected their coaches and opponents, and improved every game. We saw a ton of smiles both during and after games from our kids.
We're happy to say we achieved our goals of playing competitively whilst ensuring a positive environment for our players. Mistakes became teaching moments whilst the hard fought successes, so often difficult to find in this sport, were celebrated. Across all ages we went 6-6-1, a highly respectable result for the first tournament of the year with such a strong field. You can find all the results per age group here: https://www.fcbs.cat/campionat/2025/t_catweek_u18b/cla.php
What you won’t see in the results page are the stories and moments across the weekend. Our U18s completed a thrilling walk off in extra innings past midnight to then come back and win again at 8:30 the next day (and finish 3rd / 11 on record). Our U15s played incredible defence with some highlight reel plays and only two errors over the entire weekend which is quite special. And finally our very young U12 team climbed back from 5 runs down in their final game to finish in a thrilling tie (befitting of a Premier League game) upon hitting a time limit.
Now we look forward to our April tournaments in Breda NL and Prague CZ!
