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September 8, 2024

Softbol Veteranos Season 11 Week 27

This Sunday, September 8, coinciding with the day of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre (Catholic deity named and proclaimed as Patroness of Cuba, by Pope Benedict XV on May 10, 1916 and authorized the canonical coronation of the sacred image by Pope Pius XI on the morning of December 20, 1936, by the then bishop of Santiago de Cuba, Monsignor Valentín Zubizarreta. According to accounts of the time, her image appeared in 1612 or early 1613, in Nipe Bay, the largest in Cuba, located on the northern coast of the eastern region of the island was sighted by three slaves: a 10-year-old black boy (Juan Moreno) and two brothers of pure Indian blood (Juan and Rodrigo de Hoyos), who worked as slaves in the copper mines of the region whose trio has been baptized in Cuban imagery as "the three Juanes". Later, on a trip made by John Paul II to Cuba in 1998, he crowned the Virgin as the Patroness of Cuba with great dignity) the Veterans League of the Softball Project: Quality of Life was resumed after six weeks of vacation. In the corresponding subseries, the Elephants of the Veterans 3 team again won the Sunday doubleheader, moving nine games away from their closest pursuer, the Shrimpers of the Veterans 3 team. As a significant note, the Jagua, of the Veterans 2 team, lost the doubleheader, moving dangerously away 19.5 games from the top. Pitcher Eliécer Hernández Muñoz achieved his tenth victory, to lead alone the list of most victories achieved in the league with 11, leaving the Jagua with only two runs and only 7 hits. In that game, the Jagua of Veterans 2 team managed to score a triple play, which is the third achieved in the 11 editions of this Veterans Cup. Eliécer also reached 13 times being selected as MVP, also remaining alone as the leader in that department.