The Pulheim Gophers are a baseball and softball section of the sports club
Pulheimer SC
Pulheimer SC is a German sports club from Pulheim. It has sections for association football, handball, baseball ( Pulheim Gophers), hockey, inline hockey, volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, budo, fencing, track and field, cycling, swimm ...
from
Pulheim
Pulheim (; Ripuarian: ''Pullem'') is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Since the 1920s, a large substation of the ''Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG'' ( RWE) is located at Pulheim. It is the end of t ...
, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1989, and the first men's team was promoted to the first division of the
Baseball Bundesliga
The Deutsche Baseball Liga (English: ''German Baseball League'') or DBL is the professional elite competition for baseball in Germany. Until 2024, the league was called Baseball-Bundesliga. The winner is awarded the German championship. Like ...
in 2008, having previously played in the first division for the 2001, 2002 and 2004 seasons. After finishing in last place with a 6–18 record in 2009, the team improved to 11–17 in 2010, finishing fifth and only one game out of a playoff spot.
Club structure
The full club consists of 6 teams:
*1st Men's Baseball, Bundesliga's 1st Division
*2nd Men's Baseball, Regionalliga North-West
*3rd Men's Baseball, Bezirksliga Rhineland
*Juniors, National League
*Youth, National League
*Women, Union League
Membership in the club, as of 2011, costs €10 per month for youths under 18 and €15 per month for anyone over 18.
Season-by-season performance (1st Bundesliga)
References
External links
Pulheim Gophers official site
Baseball teams in Germany
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