2010 Women's Baseball World Championship

2010 Women's Baseball World Championship
Tournament details
host	Venezuela
Period	12-22 August
Attendees	11
Defending champion	Japan
Bottom line
winner	Japan (2nd title)
Second	Australia
Third	United States
Fourth	Venezuela
statistics
Games	40
MVP	Ayako Rokkaku
spectator	151,634   (Ø: 3,791 per game)

The 2010 Women's Baseball World Cup was the fourth edition of this women's baseball competition and took place in Caracas from August 12 to 22, 2010 . After an incident on the second day in which a Hong Kong player was shot, all games were moved to Maracay . The Hong Kong team withdrew from the tournament. (see also: Participants Hong Kong ). A total of eleven teams took part in the tournament.

The opening ceremony took place on August 12, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the Estadio José A. Casanova in Caracas.

The team won the title from Japan and was able to defend the title from the previous year.

Attendees

by continent (number of participations in brackets)

1 from Europe	Netherlands (1)
4 from North and Central America	Canada (4)	Cuba (2)	United States (4)
	Puerto Rico (1)
1 from South America	Venezuela (1)
0 from Africa
4 from Asia	Japan (4)	Chinese Taipei (4)	Hong Kong (3)
	South Korea (2)
1 from Oceania	Australia (4)

→ Main article : 2010 World Women's Baseball Championship / Participant

referee

Most of the referees came from Venezuela, but with the exception of the Netherlands and Japan, every participating nation had a referee sent to Caracas.

0 from Europe
3 from North and Central America	Janet Moreno	Kathrin Sargeant	Kelly Hunter
14 from South America	Maite Bullones	Pedro Carmona	Jorge Díaz
	Romer Díaz	Amelia Flamelich	Ramon Flores
	Danny Franco	César Linares	Gustavo Pineda
	Rodolfo Rodríguez	Zaiya Silva	Lideana Soto
	Rafael Torres	Arquímedes Torres
0 from Africa
3 from Asia	Liu Po ​​Chun	Wang Lin Kwan	H. Myung Sun
1 from Oceania	Paul Latta

Preliminary round

→ Main article : 2010 Women's World Baseball Championship / Results

The three best teams in each group qualified for group C of the intermediate round, the other teams for group D.

Group A

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	Venezuela	4th	0	1,000
2.	Canada	3	1	0.750
3.	Australia	2	2	0.500
4th	Chinese Taipei 1	1	3	0.250
5.	Netherlands	0	4th	0,000
6th	Hong Kong 2	0	0	0,000

(Final score)
¹ The result of the game Chinese Taipei against Hong Kong was taken out of the evaluation because the team from Hong Kong withdrew.
² Hong Kong withdrew from the tournament after an incident in which a player was injured.

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
12. August	10:00	Estadio Cesar Nieves, Vargas	Chinese Taipei	-	Hong Kong	17: 1 (5) 1
12. August	14:00	Estadio Cesar Nieves, Vargas	Australia	-	Canada	1: 6
12. August	7:30 p.m.	Estadio José A. Casanova, Caracas	Netherlands	-	Venezuela	4:20 (5)
13 August	10:00	Estadio José A. Casanova, Caracas	Canada	-	Chinese Taipei	7: 6
13 August	14:30	Estadio José A. Casanova, Caracas	Hong Kong	-	Netherlands	9:12 (3) 2
August 14th	10:00	Estadio José A. Casanova, Caracas	Canada	-	Hong Kong	- 3
15th of August	10:00	Estadio José A. Casanova, Caracas	Hong Kong	-	Australia	- 3
15th August 4	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Australia	-	Netherlands	16: 3 (5)
15th August 4	19:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Chinese Taipei	-	Venezuela	3: 5
August 16	10:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Canada	-	Netherlands	12: 1 (5)
August 16	14:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Chinese Taipei	-	Australia	0: 4
August 16, 5	18:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Netherlands	-	Chinese Taipei	0:11
August 16	18:00	Estadio José A. Casanova, Caracas	Venezuela	-	Hong Kong	- 3
August 16, 5	19:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Venezuela	-	Canada	3: 2 (8)
17th August 6th	19:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Venezuela	-	Australia	8: 1

¹ The result of the game Chinese Taipei against Hong Kong was taken out of the scoring because the team from Hong Kong withdrew.
² The game between Hong Kong and the Netherlands was abandoned after the third inning. Hong Kong then withdrew.
³ Game not performed.
⁴ Game moved from August 14th to August 15th.
⁵ Game moved from August 15th to August 16th.
⁶ Game postponed from August 14th to August 17th.

Group B

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	Japan	4th	0	1,000
2.	United States	3	1	0.750
3.	Cuba	2	2	0.500
4th	Puerto Rico	1	3	0.250
5.	South Korea	0	4th	0,000

(Final score)

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
12. August	10:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Cuba	-	South Korea	21: 9 (6)
12. August	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Japan	-	United States	5: 1
13 August	14:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Japan	-	Cuba	3: 1
August 15, 1	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Cuba	-	Puerto Rico	12: 1 (5)
August 15, 1	10:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	United States	-	South Korea	21: 0 (5)
15th of August	14:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	South Korea	-	Japan	0:14 (5)
August 15, 2	18:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	United States	-	Cuba	5-0
August 16, 3	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	South Korea	-	Puerto Rico	0:10 (5)
August 16, 4	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Puerto Rico	-	United States	0: 9
17th August 5	14:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Puerto Rico	-	Japan	0:10 (6)

¹ game postponed from August 14th to August 15th.
² Game moved from August 16 to August 15.
³ Game moved from August 13 to August 16.
⁴ Game moved from August 15th to August 16th.
⁵ Game moved from August 16 to August 17.

Intermediate round

The four best placed teams in Group C qualify for the semifinals, places 5 and 6 play against each other in the game for place 5.

In group D the places for the games for places 7 and 9 are won.

The results against the teams from the preliminary round groups are carried over to the intermediate round. In the event of a tie, the direct encounter decides.

Group C

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	Japan	4th	1	0.800
2.	Venezuela	4th	1	0.800
3.	Australia	3	2	0.600
4th	United States	2	3	0.400
5.	Canada	2	3	0.400
6th	Cuba	0	5	0,000

(Final score)

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
18th of August	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	United States	-	Canada	10: 1
18th of August	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Australia	-	Japan	10: 9
18th of August	19:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Cuba	-	Venezuela	3: 4
August 19th	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Cuba	-	Australia	2: 6
August 19th	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Canada	-	Japan	2: 6
August 19th	19:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	United States	-	Venezuela	6: 7
20th of August	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Cuba	-	Canada	9:10
20th of August	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Australia	-	United States	19: 6 (6)
20th of August	19:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Venezuela	-	Japan	0:10 (5)

Group D

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	Chinese Taipei	3	0	1,000
2.	Puerto Rico	2	1	0.667
3.	South Korea	1	2	0.333
4th	Netherlands	0	3	0,000

(Final score)

Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 19th	10:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	South Korea	-	Chinese Taipei	2:12 (6)
August 19th	14:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Netherlands	-	Puerto Rico	1:11 (5)
20th of August	10:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Chinese Taipei	-	Puerto Rico	16: 1 (5)
20th of August	14:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Netherlands	-	South Korea	5:15 (6)

Final round

Play for 9th place

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 21	10:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Netherlands	-	South Korea	4:11

Game for 7th place

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 21	14:00	Estadio Aviación, Maracay	Puerto Rico	-	Chinese Taipei	3: 4

Play for 5th place

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 21	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Cuba	-	Canada	1: 5 (5)

Semifinals

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 21	14:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	United States	-	Japan	1: 6
August 21	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Australia	-	Venezuela	12: 2

3rd place match

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 22nd	10:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Venezuela	-	United States	5:15 (6)

final

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 22nd	15:00	Estadio José Perez Colmenares, Maracay	Australia	-	Japan	3:13 (5)

Awards

During the closing ceremony it was announced which players had been chosen to join the All Star Team and who had won the tournament awards.

All Star Team position Player Starting pitcher Ayami Sato Relief pitcher Laura Neads Catcher Tomomi Nishi First base Kate Psota Second base Lelis Gomez Third base Christina Kreppold Short stop Jena Marston Outfield Akiko Shimura Tamara Holmes Leonel Reyes Designated hitter Kim McMillan

Tournament awards Award Player MVP Ayako Rokkaku Best hitter Ayako Rokkaku Best running average achieved Kasumi Noguchi Best win / loss ratio Ayami Sato Most runs taken Katie Gaynor Most home runs Tamara Holmes Most of the stolen bases Dayana Bautista Scored most runs Clarisa Navarro Outstanding defensive player Tara Herbert

See also

Portal: Baseball  - Overview of Wikipedia content on baseball

• Baseball world championship (men)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hong Kong player shot in leg at women's baseball championship. ca.reuters.com, accessed on August 20, 2012 (English). 
2. ^ Games to Resume in Venezuela. (No longer available online.) Ibaf.org, archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on August 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Team leaves after bullet hits player. philly.com, accessed August 20, 2012 . 
4. ^ IV Women World Cup. (No longer available online.) Ibaf.org, archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on August 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Final table, All Star Team and Awards. ibaf.org, accessed August 20, 2012 .