GHSV opent honkbalseizoen met overtuigende 13-1 zege op Nuenen

Thirteen runs, one allowed, and a home win that was already out of reach before the game had settled in: GHSV opened its 2026 honkbalseizoen in Gemert with the sort of 13-1 result that immediately changes the tone around a club. Against Nuenen, the first team did not just win, it dictated every phase of the afternoon and gave the rest of the competition an early reminder of what Gemert can do when the bats and the mound click at the same time.

Romy Kastrop set that tone from the start. In the opening innings, Kastrop gave Nuenen nothing to build on and held the visitors scoreless through the first three frames. That mattered as much as the final margin, because it let GHSV play from the front and keep pressing instead of having to chase the game. For a season opener, it was exactly the kind of clean, assertive start that shows winter training has already translated into real-game rhythm.

The batting order backed that up immediately. Bram van Berlo opened with a double, then Davy v/d Bijl and Alex Mols turned that hit into an early Gemert lead by bringing him across the plate. In the third inning, the pressure kept coming. Romy Kastrop and Bram van Berlo reached again, this time scoring on hits from Tijmen Hijzelaar and Alex Mols. Roelof de Brouwer then added the extra damage with a double of his own, driving in two more runs and stretching the margin further. From there, Gemert kept piling on until the scoreboard reached 8-1, and the later innings finished the job at 13-1.

That is what makes this feel more like a statement than a simple mismatch. Nuenen, through Honk- en Softbal Club Nuenen, is not a stranger to the Dutch baseball map, and GHSV has long known how important these early league tests are. GHSV, short for Gemertse Honk- en Softbal Vereniging, was founded in 1985 and has built its identity around teams that matter to the local baseball community in and around Gemert. A result like this gives the first team immediate credibility and a sharp contrast to last year’s opening setback against the same opponent.

The rest of the club’s opening weekend kept the season moving as well. GHSV’s U15-1 ran into a tougher afternoon in Nijmegen against Hazenkamp, where the home side quickly pulled away, although the report still pointed to useful attacking and defensive actions from the Gemert youth side. The weekend schedule also included U15-1 against Nuenen and GHSV Honkbal1 against PSV3, a reminder that the 2026 season is already running on both development and results.