II U-15 Baseball World Cup 2014

31/07/2014 - 10/08/2014

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Three host cities, groups announced for 15U Baseball World Cup in Mexico

Three host cities, groups announced for 15U Baseball World Cup in Mexico
25/06/2014

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Baseball World Cup officials recently concluded inspections, alongside officials of the Mexican Baseball Federation, of the venues in the Mexican State of Sinaloa.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Baseball World Cup officials recently concluded inspections, alongside officials of the Mexican Baseball Federation, of the venues in the Mexican State of Sinaloa.

Following the inspections, which spanned across Sinaloa, Baseball World Cup officials announced  today, from their headquarters in Lausanne, the competition cities for the three six-nation groups, wihch are to be based in Culiacan, Los Mochis and Mazatlan.

It had been previously announced that only Culiacan and Mazatlan would be the new host cities — following news that the event would be moved from Baja California, but after recent site inspections, it has been confirmed that Los Mochis, a city that is home to a professional baseball club in the Mexican Pacific League, has been added the list of host cities.

Mazatlán will serve as the site for the Opening/Closing Ceremonies, Baseball World Cup final, and awards presentation.

GROUP A – based in Culiacán for the first round

Chinese Taipei

Italy

Mexico

Brazil

Czech Republic

Tunisia

GROUP B – based in Mazatlán for the first round

United States of America

Japan

Panama

Germany

New Zealand

South Africa

GROUP C – based in Los Mochis for the first round

Cuba

Venezuela

Australia

Argentina

Hong Kong

Lithuania

Ten of the top fifteen ranked countries, including Nos. 1-4, will be participating in the II 15U Baseball World Cup.

Seven countries will be first-time participants: Australia, Czech Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Panama, South Africa and United States.

The eighteen participating National Teams had already been seeded and assigned (based on current World Rankings and past performance at the inaugural 15U Baseball World Cup in 2012) to their respective groups.

Venezuela is the defending 15U Baseball World Cup champion.

Launched in 2012 and played every two years, the 15U (ages 13-15) Baseball World Cup has established itself as the pinnacle of baseball in this age category — and like the 12U (ages 11-12) Baseball World Cup, the 15U BWC is the only world championship across all of sport featuring National Teams, with the best young baseball players in the world, and future stars, representing their countries and uniting on the Baseball World Cup global platform.

Only in its second edition, the 15U Baseball World Cup platform will potentially challenge what is arguably baseball’s toughest and best represented international competition, the 18U (ages 16-18) Baseball World Cup – an event that has featured superstars like Canada’s Brett Lawrie, Japan’s Yu Darvish and Shohei Otani, South Korea’s Shin-soo Choo, Cuba’s Yasiel Puig and Aroldis Chapman, and USA’s Clayton Kershaw, Justin Upton and Buster Posey, among countless others – and which, in 2013, had a potential broadcast reach of 144 million homes and potential online/mobile reach of 20 million.

The II 15U Baseball World Cup will have unprecedented degree of global spread for a baseball event, one that spans Africa (North and South), the Americas (North-, Central- & South America and the Caribbean), Asia, Europe (Baltics, Central- and Southern Europe) and Oceania.

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