XXV 18U Baseball World Championship

[Goblin]

The 18U Baseball World Championship will be held in Seoul City, Korea from 30 August to 8 September, 2012, where 12 teams will compete for the gold medal.

The 12 participating teams are divided into two groups, A and B. Group A includes: Korea, USA, Venezuela, Australia, Colombia, and the Netherlands. Group B includes: Japan, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Panama, Italy, and Czech Republic.

The first day was washed out.

Australia leaded off the games on the 2nd day.

Australia are currently playing Columbia.

Aussies leading 1-0 after the 1st innings after Aaron Sayers tripled to record the RBI

You can follow the action on line with GameTracker

www.ibaf.org/en/competition/53f63b49-49b3-437f-9f81-dcc5f0ab06a0/results

You will need to click the "GT" link at the right side to bring up the Play by Play action.

Go Aussies...........

[Goblin]

Australia defeated Columbia 7-4

McGrath went 5.1inn picking up the win

[Goblin]

Aussies currently playing Venezuela

Current down 1 nil after 3

www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbasebl.html?event=1174769&school=aus&sport=mbasebl&camefrom=&startschool=&

[Goblin]

Score currently tied up at 3 all after 9inn.

Coming into the 9th inn the Aussies were down 3 nil and managed to rally to tie it up.

[Goblin]

Unfortunately the Aussies have gone down 6-3 after 10 inns

The extra inns rule is that each team starts with there last 2 outs on base.

In the top of the inns a series of errors by the Aussies resulted in 3 runs to Venezuela.

In the bottom of the dig there Aussies were unable to advance the runners.

[Goblin]

Things are not looking good at the moment.

Aussies drop Game 3 to South Korea 7-1

www.ibaf.org/en/competition/53f63b49-49b3-437f-9f81-dcc5f0ab06a0/results

[Goblin]

Game 4 now underway

Aussies Vs Netherlands

www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbasebl.html?event=1174776&school=ned&sport=mbasebl&camefrom=&startschool=&

[Diesel]

Sept 3, 2012 11:13:08 GMT 10 Goblin said:

Game 4 now underway

Aussies Vs Netherlands

www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbasebl.html?event=1174776&school=ned&sport=mbasebl&camefrom=&startschool=&

Sayers goes deep for grand slammy

[Diesel]

Aussies 8 Vs Netherlands 1

[Goblin]

Pressure is on the Aussies today if they still want to stay in the medal race.

The come up against the USA, games starts at 7pm today (our time).

Must win

[klattsy]

Dan McGrath posted on Twitter that the game has been rained out and rescheduled for 10am tomorrow. I assume there time.

[Goblin]

Thanks for the headsup.

That would make it about 11am ourtime

[Goblin]

The Aussies championship aspirations were dealt a severe blow today as they went down to the USA 6-2.

Australia finish with a 2-3 record and finished 5th in their grouping.

This sees the Aussies relegated to the classification rounds. A win will see them finish 9th, a loss they will finish 10th.

www.ibaf.org/en/news/2012/09/05/18u-bwc-usa-sends-australia-into-classification-ro/d6498191-4ef0-477e-b962-937d0719efe9

[oj]

Pretty great effort by the Aussie boys in a really tough competition.

Of note Team USA had future Hall of Famer Craig Biggio's son Cavan playing for them and World Series MVP Scott Brosius as its manager.