The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today revealed the groups and tournament schedule of the XIII WBSC U-19 Women’s Softball World Cup, being staged from 10-17 August in Irvine, California, United States.
Today marks 100 days to the opening day of the XIII WBSC U-19 Women’s Softball World Cup, the pinnacle youth women’s softball competition, to be staged in Irvine, California, USA, from 11-17 August.
Today marks 50 days before the first pitch of the WBSC Men’s Softball World Championship 2019, the world’s highest-level softball competition, which will be played in Prague and Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic.
The first ever Baseball5 tournament in Kosovo was held on 7 April 2019. The urban baseball discipline succeeded in gathering 6 teams from Kosovo at the tournament and was held in the city square of Peja.
The only exception will be the Europe-Africa Baseball Qualifier: the schedule of the single round-robin will be determined by seeding. The different draws will happen on 29 April, 10 July and 20 November
All members of the media, both local/national and international, who intend to cover the Men’s Softball World Championship must apply through the official WBSC Media Accreditation online platform at my.wbsc.org.
Softball international star and WBSC Athletes Commission Co-Chair Maria Soto attended: “We discussed very interesting topics and we received some advice on how to improve our own Athletes Commission.”
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Fourteen participants from all continents gained Baseball5 technical, theoretical and practical knowledge and will now be tasked to support the WBSC Continental Associations and WBSC members in the development of this new youth focused urban discipline of the sport.
The 23 participating National Teams will vie to finish in the top six of the tournament, and earn a spot in the Europe/Africa Softball Olympic Qualifier, less than three weeks after crowning the European champion.
