Historic Chinese Taipei first ever U-12 Softball World champion. Peru silver, Czech Republic bronze

TAINAN, Taiwan — Chinese Taipei is the first ever WBSC U-12 Softball World Champion. The host team won the final over Peru 2 – 3  today in Tainan, Taiwan. Czech Republic earned bronze beating 8 -1 Indonesia in the bronze medal game.

The WBSC U-12 Mixed Softball World Cup is a newly launched world cup format designed to further boost gender equality across all WBSC disciplines. WBSC Secretary General Beng Cho Low commented “WBSC is very happy to have held this new mixed team format for Softball. We have to keep thinking outside the box and breaking barriers. We are now not only the only International Federation and global sport to have a World Cup for the U12 category, but also in a mixed team U12 format. With equal number of boys and girls playing in a team, we have true gender equality.”

Championship Game 

The Championship game proved to be far more intense and entertaining than what the group stage could have suggested. Peru took a 1 – 0 lead in the second inning and managed to defend well the subsequent 3 outs. On the bottom of the third inning LIN Wei-Chi turns the game around with a 2 RBI double. Lin will score himself as well on an RBI single of CHEN Chia-Yi, this the closed the inning with Chinese Taipei ahead 1 – 3. Peru will eventually manage one more run in the fifth.

Bronze Medal Game

After goo quality pitching for the firth 2 innings, the critical moment of the game was the bottom of the third when ŠPAČEK Adrien hits an inside the park home run with bases loaded moving the score from 1 – 0 to 5 – 0 – a partial revenge after yesterday’s fatal error against Peru.

Speaking after the game Czech manager Yana Chylova said “We feel very excited for this first ever historic medal” Czech Republic never won a medal in a world cup before.

Indonesia has show constant improvements during the whole 5 days of the tournament. Participating in this world cup has provided a learning experience for the team that will be invaluable in the development of these players and the softball movement in the country.

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