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GIJANG, Korea- Japan’s Ayami Sato fashioned a three-hitter and struck out 11 Canadian batters, while her offence banged out ten hits and took advantage of some miscues on defence to hand Canada an 8-2 opening game loss at the 7th WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup.
GIJANG, Korea – The 2016 edition of the Canadian Women’s National Baseball Team touched down in Busan, South Korea on Wednesday and have been busy preparing for the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup that gets underway on September 3rd at the brand new Gijang Dream Ballpark Complex.
OTTAWA-Baseball Canada announced today the names of 20 athletes that will represent Canada at the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup in Gijang City, Korea from September 3-11.
OTTAWA-What a week of baseball it was at the inaugural 21U Women Invitational at Mainland Field in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
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OTTAWA-It was this time last year that our Women’s National Team program were a part of history, not only competing in the first ever women’s baseball competition at a major multi-sport games, but capturing a silver medal after coming up short against the United States in the gold medal game.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic- From start to finish at he inaugural U20 Women’s International Cup, Canada dominated the competition scoring 54 runs while only surrendering ten in running the table and capturing gold by defeating the host Dominican Republic 13-3 Sunday afternoon at Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal.
SANTO DOMINGO, DR – As Team Canada’s starting pitcher Ann-Sophie Lavallée was getting stronger, Mexico’s pitching staff fizzled, and a seven-run fifth inning propelled the undefeated Canucks to the gold medal game of the inaugural Women’s International Cup with an 11-1 mercy rule victory at Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal. Canada will face the Dominican Republic, who edged Cuba 9-8 in the other semi-final, at 2pm ET Sunday for the championship.
SANTO DOMINGO, DR – The Mexican defenders were chasing Emma Carr’s hits all over Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal today. She hit one so hard that her teammate couldn’t even get out of the way of it on time and was called out in the second inning! The centre fielder from Toronto had two hits for the third consecutive game as Canada beat Mexico 7-3 to wrap up the round-robin portion of the inaugural U20 Women’s International Cup tournament with a perfect 3-0 record.
