Päsäkarhut defeated Manse PP in the super innings. The fifth final match of the Women’s Superpesis was watched by 2,880 spectators on the spot.
Pori’s Pesäkarhut celebrates the Finnish baseball championship.
Pesäkarhut decided the exciting fifth final in Tampere against Manse PP with a score of 2–1 (2–0, 0–5, 2–1).
He hit the deciding run in the final in a super inning Annika Linnawhose punch sank until the middle.
– It feels crazy. I still don’t even understand what has happened. Really cool. Somehow our team was so persistent and fought until the end. This was a great climax to the whole season, Linna told Urheilu.
The championship is the third in Pesäkarhui’s club history. It celebrated the championship last time in the fall of 2021 and before that in 2002.
Päsäkarhu’s game director Jarkko Pokela coached his team to the championship in his first and last seasons. He will move to the men’s Superpesis after this season.
– Of course, I feel better, but I’m tired.
– When I started the super shift, I already had the feeling that the season was great, go for it anyway. Glad you turned to us. Unreal feeling. I hope I don’t wake up from my nap, Pokela enthused.
With the finals, one significant baseball career ended, as the 29-year-old Emilia Eastern Light hangs his flippers on a nail. He ended his career with the Finnish championship.
– It can’t be better than this. When the finals went to the fifth game, I thought that the career would end in a pretty crazy way. But the fact that we won the Finnish championship is a dream come true, Itävalo told Urheilu.
Manse PP, who won the regular season, went to the final series as early favorites. However, it did not get a single intact match in the finals.
– This is a big disappointment. The hurt is unbelievable. The final matches were even. The regular season usually doesn’t matter when these games are played, Mansen’s game director Antti Vihtkari your inches.
Mansen locker and captain Venla Tanhua arrived at the interview with tears in his eyes. He had to swallow for a moment before answering.
– Very hard to find words. I am still extremely proud of our team. It’s a terrible disappointment that our season was so down and out that we didn’t get a single good game in the final series.
– We knew that this would be a tough and really difficult series. This is elite sport and nothing is taken for granted. Otherwise, everyone would do this if it were easy, Tanhua summed up.
The match made great sporting history, as never before has the total number of spectators for women’s finals exceeded 10,000 spectators. The match was followed by Manse’s audience record at the stadium, 2,880 spectators, which is the sixth highest ever in the women’s Super Pes.
A total of five finals were watched by 11,096 spectators on the spot.