Results 18U Oceania Championship Final Day February 2
Australia has won the 2012 18U Oceania Championship, which was held at Paseo Stadium in Guam. The team from down under defeated New Zealand 17-2 in the gold medal game on Thursday. It was the seventh win in as many games for Australia to finish the tournament with a perfect 7-0 record. The event served as qualifier for the XXV IBAF 18U Baseball World Championship, which takes place from August 30 to September 8, 2012 in Seoul, Korea.
Big Win for the Big Cats – Sydney Women’s Invitational
Day 4 and final day of the Sydney Women’s Invitational at Blacktown International Sportspark was a Victorian day as the two Victorian teams defeated the local Sydney sides to reach the championship game.
ABF announces 2012 Baseball Australia Hall of Fame Inductees
Baseball Australia Hall of Fame membership is divided into two categories of excellence; 1.) Playing and 2.) Managing / Coaching. All members are inducted in one of eight eras and nominations adhere to strict standards of criteria for selection, with the primary criteria being that a nominee must have had a prolonged impact on the game of Baseball at the highest level available at that time and not be deemed to have brought the game of Baseball into disrepute.
MLB Ambassador and Envoy Programmes Bring talented Trio to Auckland for MLB’s Training with the Pros Camp
Major League Baseball (MLB) and Baseball New Zealand are teaming up to present ‘Training with the Pros’ baseball camp and clinics across Auckland this month, with a week of world-class baseball instruction featuring three current Major League Baseball players plus some of New Zealand’s top coaches and national team players.
Australian Women’s National Team with Camp
The Senior Women’s Baseball Camp is underway at Nurrabundah Baseball Fields in Canberra, and from all reports it’s very hot, but the women aren’t letting that stop them.
Junior Women’s World Championship Gold Medal game showed competitive level
Although 2011’s was the ninth such 19-and-under tournament since the ISF began the event in 1981, this one had some ‘firsts.’
Australia, World rosters announced for ASG
SYDNEY, 8 December – The rosters have been named for the inaugural Australian Baseball League All-Star Game, where the country’s best homegrown talent, Team Australia, will take on the best international players in the ABL, Team World, in Perth on 21 December at 4pm.
Team Australia scheduled to play on Home Soil
The Australian Baseball League’s (ABL) inaugural All-Star Game is set to showcase the best of Australian baseball’s talent when Team Australia take on the ABL’s top international players in a one game only, nine inning bout, at Barbagallo Ballpark in Perth on 21 December 2011.
Aussies near perfect for 1st Men’s World Championship Gold
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN — Two walks issued were all that separated pitcher Adam Folkard from a perfect game here in today’s 5-0 win over New Zealand. The fact that the lanky hurler not only no-hit three-time defending International Softball Federation men’s world champion New Zealand, but did so in the gold medal game of the twelfth edition of the event, probably will set just as well with him on the flight home to Australia.
Aussies guaranteed their best Men’s World Championship finish
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN — At the last edition of the International Softball Federation’s Men’s World Championship, Australia won a medal at the event for the first time when they came in third place. Here they are going to do even better, having guaranteed themselves a spot in tomorrow’s gold medal game with a 2-0 victory tonight over Canada.