Following the announcement of the cancellation of the 2021 Australian Youth Championships (U16 and U18 AYC’s), every state will be hosting their ‘in house’ event throughout January. Baseball QLD will be running their event on 14th – 19th January 2021 at All Stars Baseball Club, Bannister Park. This event will have our selected QLD squad’s face off against each other. Both programs have already commenced their preparation and will continue through the Christmas School Holidays. Each age group will be split into two (2) teams and compete against one another in a seven (7) game series throughout our QLD event. In addition to the seven (7) game series will be our inaugural QLD Showcase Day, with all selected players going through their paces in an on field baseball-specific testing session.
Given the flexibility of this event, every game will be using new technology that Baseball QLD has recently sourced and is currently being used within our Pathway Programs. Every pitch at bat will be recorded on Rapsodo along with high-speed footage being taken. All hitters will be using Blast Motion sensors along with every pitcher having access to Motus Sleeve sensors. Everyone is looking forward to this event whilst having access to this state of the art technology available to them.
Nominations are now open to fill 6 positions on the GBL Committee .
Nominations can be made by filling out the form below and sent to [email protected]
Regrettably, there has not been sufficient team entries to allow the QLD GBL SENIOR GAMES – Division 1/2; 3/4; 5/6 to be played on the 18; 19; 20 December 2020 to proceed.
The GBL Competition Committee will seek to offer this program as a pre-season tournament option in September 2021.
Thank you to the Clubs that replied – it would appear that the timing so close to Christmas was a significant factor in Clubs not participating.
QBUA is holding a Rules Training and discussion evening for all Community Level and above umpires where we will cover a mixture of the Little League Specific Rules and General Baseball Rules.
This will be held on Monday 30th November, at Indians Baseball Club Wakerley Park, 65 Dew Street, Runcorn.
As the Indians Club has a Co-Vid safe plan in place, a starting time of 6.45pm has been set so as all attendees can ensure that all co-vid check-in procedures is completed prior to the commencement of the session.
Session will run from 7 to 9 pm approx.
As numbers will be restricted I ask that anyone wishing to attend must register their interest to: [email protected] or with the club umpire co-ordinator Doug Robertson [email protected] no later than Friday 27th November.
When registering you will need to supply details of your:
Name, Phone Number and Club affiliation if you have one.
A Women’s Showcase featuring the country’s top female players will be held in early 2021.
Baseball Australia chief executive Cam Vale earlier today informed donors to A League of Her Own of the four-game Showcase, which will be broadcast and played as doubleheaders at two venues.
Vale said broadcast and location details for the Showcase would be announced across the next week or two.
“It will be a critically important starting point to the formal path to a professional women’s baseball league in Australia in 2021/22,” he said.
Exhibition games were last October flagged for the past 12 months but never took place due to the impact of COVID-19.
Vale said the uncertain timing of the 2020 WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup had also impacted planning.
“A key part in delaying this opportunity, outside from the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, is we have been waiting on confirmation of the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup that was due to occur in 2020 but is now delayed indefinitely,” he said.
“The timing and rescheduling of this event was causing a stop-start for us to launch this Showcase and a future women’s league.”
Vale told baseball.com.au this morning the league was still working with key partners on the dates of the games but they would be within the first three months of the year.
He also signalled some rule changes to enhance the broadcast and publicity of the Showcase while “staying true to baseball and its strengths”.
ALeagueOfHerOwn.com.au launched in May 2019 aiming to help bring professional women’s baseball to Australia, creating a pathway for the country’s elite female baseballers and attracting international players.
It has raised more than $30,000 so far and remains open with donations of $2 or more fully tax deductible.
The Adelaide Giants, Melbourne Aces/Baseball Victoria, Brisbane Bandits and Canberra Cavalry were last October granted provisional licences for the league.
