2012 Women's World Baseball Championship

2012 Women's World Baseball Championship
Tournament details
host	Canada
Period	10-19 August
Attendees	8th
Defending champion	Japan
Bottom line
winner	Japan (3rd title)
Second	United States
Third	Canada
Fourth	Australia
statistics
Games	36
MVP	Yukari Isozaki
spectator	33,800   (Ø: 939 per game)

The 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup was the fifth edition of this women's baseball competition and took place in Edmonton from August 10 to 19, 2012 . 29 (23 preliminary round, three semi-finals, game for 7th place and the medal games) of the 36 games took place in Telus Field , the remaining seven (five group games, one semi-final and game for 5th place) took place in John Fry Park . A total of eight teams took part in the tournament.

The opening ceremony took place on August 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm at Telus Field.

The team from Japan won the title and was able to win the title for the third time in a row.

The games of the Japanese team, and thus also the final, could be followed live on a separate channel on YouTube.

Attendees

by continent (number of participations in brackets)

1 from Europe	Netherlands (2)
3 from North and Central America	Canada (5)	Cuba (3)	United States (5)
1 from South America	Venezuela (2)
0 from Africa
2 from Asia	Japan (5)	Chinese Taipei (5)
1 from Oceania	Australia (5)

→ Main article : 2012 Women's World Baseball Championship / Participant

referee

Most of the referees came from North America, but with the exception of the Netherlands, every participating nation had a referee sent to Edmonton.

0 from Europe
9 from North and Central America	Janet Moreno	Judy Nettler	Drue Hoffman
	Todd Dororthy	Lisa Turbitt	Elise Lallement
	Kelly Hunter	Kimberly Bueckert	Steve Boutang
1 from South America	Maite Bullones
0 from Africa
2 from Asia	Mieko Fujiwara	Wen-Chig Liao
1 from Oceania	Fiona Lambrick

Preliminary round

All eight teams qualify for the so-called semi-finals. Due to the game mode in the final round , only the teams in the first four places have the opportunity to play for medals.

table

Pl.		S.	N	Pzt.
1.	Japan	6th	1	0.857
2.	Canada	6th	1	0.857
3.	United States	5	2	0.714
4th	Australia	4th	3	0.571
5.	Chinese Taipei	3	4th	0.429
6th	Venezuela	3	4th	0.429
7th	Cuba	1	6th	0.143
8th.	Netherlands	0	7th	0,000

(Final score)

Results

→ Main article : 2012 Women's World Baseball Championship / Results

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 10	10:00	Telus Field	United States	-	Netherlands	10: 0 (5)
August 10	15:00	Telus Field	Cuba	-	Australia	4:12
August 10	20:30	Telus Field	Canada	-	Chinese Taipei	12: 2 (5)
August 11th	10:00	Telus Field	Chinese Taipei	-	Cuba	6: 3
August 11th	13:30	Telus Field	Netherlands	-	Japan	0:21 (5)
August 11th	16:30	Telus Field	Australia	-	United States	8:11
August 11th	20:00	Telus Field	Venezuela	-	Canada	2:14 (5)
12. August	11:00	Telus Field	Chinese Taipei	-	Netherlands	17: 3 (5)
12. August	14:00	John Fry Park	Cuba	-	Venezuela	5:11
12. August	15:00	Telus Field	Canada	-	Australia	5: 4
12. August	7:30 p.m.	Telus Field	United States	-	Japan	5: 2
13 August	11:00	Telus Field	Japan	-	Cuba	10: 0 (5)
13 August	14:00	John Fry Park	Chinese Taipei	-	Venezuela	4: 2
13 August	15:00	Telus Field	Australia	-	Netherlands	13:11
13 August	7:30 p.m.	Telus Field	United States	-	Canada	9:15
August 14th	15:15	Telus Field	Japan	-	Chinese Taipei	11: 1 (5)
August 14th	20:00	Telus Field	Netherlands	-	Canada	2:19 (5)
August 15, 1	10:00	Telus Field	Venezuela	-	Japan	0: 3
August 15, 2	13:00	Telus Field	Australia	-	Venezuela	20: 1 (5)
15th August 3	13:00	John Fry Park	Cuba	-	United States	1: 9
August 16	11:00	Telus Field	Venezuela	-	Netherlands	14: 6
August 16	14:00	John Fry Park	United States	-	Chinese Taipei	13: 3 (5)
August 16	15:00	Telus Field	Japan	-	Australia	10: 0 (6)
August 16	7:30 p.m.	Telus Field	Canada	-	Cuba	12: 2 (6)
17th August	11:30	Telus Field	Australia	-	Chinese Taipei	11: 0 (5)
17th August	14:00	John Fry Park	Venezuela	-	United States	5: 1
17th August	15:00	Telus Field	Netherlands	-	Cuba	5:13
17th August	7:30 p.m.	Telus Field	Japan	-	Canada	9: 7

¹ The game Venezuela - Japan was canceled due to the late arrival of the Venezuelan national team from 10.8. postponed to 8/15.
² The game Australia - Venezuela was canceled from August 14th due to rain. on 8/15 postponed
³ The game Cuba - United States was postponed due to rain from 14.8. on 8/15 postponed

Final round

Semifinals

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result	game
18th of August	11:00	Telus Field	Chinese Taipei	-	Netherlands	7: 5	Semi-final 1
18th of August	14:00	John Fry Park	Venezuela	-	Cuba	9: 6	Semi-final 2
18th of August	15:00	Telus Field	Japan	-	Australia	5: 1	Semi-final 3
18th of August	7:30 p.m.	Telus Field	Canada	-	United States	4:17 (6)	Semi-final 4

Game for 7th place

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 19th	10:00	Telus Field	Cuba	-	Netherlands	8:10

Play for 5th place

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 19th	13:00	John Fry Park	Chinese Taipei	-	Venezuela	1: 6

3rd place match

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 19th	13:00	Telus Field	Canada	-	Australia	17:13

final

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
August 19th	17:45	Telus Field	Japan	-	United States	3-0

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 Yukari Isozaki Relief pitcher Ayami Sato Catcher Stephanie Savoie First base Kate Psota Second base Nicole Luchansky Third base Christina Kreppold Short stop Ayaka Deguchi Outfield Iori Miura Jenna Flannigan Hsiao Mei Chen Designated hitter Tamara Holmes

Tournament awards Award Player MVP Yukari Isozaki Best hitter Tamara Holmes Best running average achieved Lauren McGrath Best win / loss ratio Yukaria Isozaki Most runs taken Yukiko Kon Most home runs Nicole Luchansky Most of the stolen bases Bronwyn Gell Scored most runs Shae Lillywhite Outstanding defensive player Ayako Rokkaku

See also

Portal: Baseball  - Overview of Wikipedia content on baseball

• Baseball world championship (men)

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ YouTube channel. youtube.com, accessed on August 16, 2012 . 
3. ^ Officals V Woman's Baseball World Cup. (No longer available online.) Ibaf.org, archived from the original on August 18, 2012 ; 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.  
4. ↑ Final table, All Star Team and Awards. (No longer available online.) Ibaf.org, archived from the original on September 22, 2012 ; 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.