Day 1 of the U-18 European Baseball Championship takes place on Saturday, August 13 with six games being played in the preliminary round at the ballparks in Hluboka and Ostrava.

Belgium shut outs Switzerland in the final of the U-23 European Baseball Championship Qualifier in Utena, Lithuania on Friday to qualify for next year’s U-23 European Baseball Championship.

Twelve National Teams will compete in two groups. The first and second place will compete in the semifinals. The two finalists will have a shot at the European Title and earn a ticket into the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup 2023.

Twelve Junior Baseball National Teams will compete in the 2022 U-18 European Baseball Championship, which will be played from Saturday, August 13 to Saturday, August 20 in six different venues in the Czech cities of Ostrava, Brno, Hluboka and Blansko.

Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, and Italy are the six teams in Group B of the U-18 Baseball European Championship, set to take place in Czech Republic, from Saturday 13 August to Saturday 20 August. Group B will play in Ostrava on the field of the Arrows.

The 2022 European Massimo Romeo Youth Trophy (EMRYT) is live from Collecchio fields, in Italy. EMRYT is set to take place from August 10 to 13, 2022.

So far, three instructors are confirmed for the ESCA Training Camp: camp coordinator Craig Montvidas, Olympians Elisa Cecchetti, and Marta Gasparotto. The 2022 ESCA training camp will take place in Diessen, Netherlands, from Wednesday, October 26th - Sunday, October 30th.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation Europe (WBSC Europe) and Synergy Sports, a division of Sportradar, have signed a partnership agreement granting Synergy access to film, analyse and store data and video from all WBSC Europe tournaments to use within the range of products and services it offers.

The six teams in Group A of the U-18 Baseball European Championship will play at the sports complex in Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, from Saturday 13 August to Tuesday 16 August. The games will be played at 11:00, 15:00, and 19:00.

The summer in European Baseball continues this week with a pair of qualifiers for next year’s U-23 European Baseball Championship. Utena, Lithuania is hosting Belgium, Israel, Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland, while Ljubljana, Slovenia will have Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and Ukraine in its group.