Chihuahua (Mexico). The I IBAF 15U Baseball World Championship in Chihuahua, Parral and Cuauhtémoc continued with day three on Saturday. Mexico, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela are still undefeated. Nicaragua is the first team at three wins in the tournament. Thanks to another postponed due to rain between Cuba and Argentina had to re-schedule a couple of games with the make-up game to be played on Sunday.

Chinese Taipei is playing for fifth place on Sunday at the V IBAF Women’s Baseball World Cup in Edmonton, Canada. They defeated the Netherlands by a score of 7-5 on Saturday morning, opening the classification round of the tournament. The Dutch team was up to par in the game at Telus Field, but has to settle to play for seventh.

Argentina has entered the I IBAF 15U Baseball World Championship with an 18-8 rout over Hong Kong. The South Americans scored eight runs in the second to turn a 2-1 lead into a commanding advantage.

Chinese Taipei scored all 14 runs of their 14-0 shutout over Honduras between the second and fifth, celebrating their first win in the first game of the I IBAF 15U Baseball World Championship. They were rained out on Thursday evening, while Honduras had beaten Lithuania.

Cuba is continuing to demonstrate their strength at the I IBAF 15U Baseball World Championship. On Friday afternoon they took apart Indonesia 24-0 in five innings. They scored 15 runs alone in the second frame en route to the blowout.

Defending world champion Japan is entering the semi-finals of the V IBAF Women’s Baseball World Cup on Saturday as the number-one seed and will face Australia in the afternoon. They defeated Canada 9-7 on Friday evening in front of the best crowd so far at Telus Field in Edmonton, handing the hosts their first loss in the tournament. Canada will now take on Team USA in the second semi-final.

Cuba put on a show in their first game at the I IBAF 15U Baseball World Championship in Mexico. Playing in Parral they dismantled Hong Kong 31-4 in five innings. Seven runs in the first, 12 in the third and ten in the fourth turned the game into a whopping blowout.

The USA overcame an early scare en route to a 13-3 victory over Chinese Taipei. The two-time champion erased a first-inning deficit to win their fifth game at the V Women’s Baseball World Cup in Edmonton, Canada. Playing at John Fry Park they scored in each frame between the second and the fifth to end the contest due to ten-run rule. Chinese Taipei is now 3-3 in the tournament, hoping to qualify for the semi-finals.

Japan has won its fifth game at the V IBAF Women’s Baseball World Cup in Edmonton, Canada on Thursday. The defending title holder defeated Australia 10-0 in six innings to improve to 5-1 in the tournament. They scored eight runs in the first two frames, providing a comfortable cushion early. Australia dropped to 3-3, battling for the fourth spot in the semi-finals.

51 winners from preliminaries by 15,000 junior teams with 300,000 players throughout Japan assembled for the opening ceremony at Meiji Jingu stadium in Tokyo on August 12 and started the 5-day Championship on August 13.