Wallace scores the only run, USA beats Japan
The USA beat Japan, 1-0, and are now the only undefeated team in the WBSC U-19 Women’s Softball World Cup. The USA scored in the first with one of the only two runners allowed by Japanese starter Imu Goto. Skylar Wallace was actually tagged for the out at home, but the run scored because of […]
U-19 Women’s Softball World Cup: placement round Day 2
This is the full report on the games played in the second day of the placement round: Netherlands-Botswana, Brazil-Italy, New Zealand-Czech Republic, South Africa-Ireland. Inside you will find links to the box scores
Lin Chia Hsuan, Wu Yu Hsin lead Chinese Taipei over Puerto Rico
Chinese Taipei displayed some dangerous offence: 15 hits defeated Puerto Rico for the second win in the tournament. Now Chinese Taipei is back in play for a spot in the medal round
Goto shines as Japan beats Canada in five
Miu Goto was dominant from the circle with a 2-hit shutout and helped her own cause with an RBI double in the first inning to propel Japan to the fifth win in the Super Round. The Asian champion defeated Canada, 7-0, and remain undefeated in the tournament.
Echols has three-RBI night, USA shuts out Puerto Rico
The USA was not as overpowering as in the previous games but shut out Puerto Rico anyway. Montana Fouts was not perfect as in her first start but allowed only one infield hit in six innings of work while striking out 11
Falby gets final out, Canada beats China
China will have a lot to regret about, starting from the three runners stranded with the game tied at two and no one out in the third and ending up with suffering the final out at third with the potential tying run at first. Canada sees the medal round
U-19 Softball World Cup: Japan, USA still undefeated after super round Day 1
This article is a full recap of the first day of the super round of the U-19 Women’s Softball World Cup. Inside you find the links to full reports and boxscores
Goto, Yamashita combine for 1-hit shutout as Japan beats Puerto Rico in four
In a duel between two undefeated teams, Japan opened the Super Round with a strong victory against Puerto Rico, 10-0, in four innings. Left-handed pitchers Miu Goto and Chise Yamashita pitched a 1-hit ball game, with 5 strikeouts. Rino Setoguchi led off the game with a line-drive single to center field and set the tone […]
Canada solid behind Hickingbottom, shuts out Mexico
Canada played solid defence behind the almost untouchable starter Madelyn Hickingbottom and used some timely hitting to defeat Mexico, 4-0. Mia Valcke 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦#U19SoftballWC pic.twitter.com/Y58cqFYMMs — WBSC #U19SoftballWC (@WBSCsoftball) August 13, 2019 Mexico’s starter Yanina Trevino was bothered by control issues and defence didn’t help her. In the bottom of the first with two […]
Aggressive running, solid hitting give Japan another win
Starting pitcher Mio Sakamoto was dominant, leadoff hitter was on in every at-bat. Japan shut out Chinese Taipei and is counting 19 runs scored overall in the day, without allowing one