GameTime Classics Episode 16: Great Britain vs Italy for Olympic softball berth
WBSC Softball Europe/Africa Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualifier between Italy and Great Britain, in a winner-take-all game.
A new episode of WBSC's GameTime Classic series will focus on one of the most important games in the recent European softball history: the final of the WBSC Softball Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier between Italy and Great Britain, in a winner-take-all game. The match was played on 27 July 2019 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
The WBSC Softball Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier hosted the top six European nations and the two best countries from Africa, in a 5-day competition to decide the third qualified nation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Great Britain and Italy met previously in 2019, at the European Softball Championship, with a 7-0 win for the Italians in five innings. Both nations earned their spot in the WBSC Softball Europe/Africa Qualifier as two of the top six European teams.
Both teams clinched key wins on the first day of the Super Round to set up the winner-take-all contest. Greta Cecchetti (ITA) and Georgina Corrick (GBR) took the ball in the decisive match.
This decisive game will be streamed for free at www.youtube.com/wbsc at 9 pm Eastern US Standard Time* on Thursday, 9 April (3 am Central European Time*, 10 am Japan and 11 am Australia Time on Friday, 10 April) and Friday at 9 am Eastern Standard Time* (3:00 pm Central European Time*, 10:00 pm Japan and 11 pm Australia Time) at www.facebook.com/wbsc. *Observing daylight saving time.
The next episode of the WBSC's GameTime Classics will feature Panama and Japan in the 2016 WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup.