University of Michigan head baseball coach Rich Maloney has announced that seniors Chris Berset and Mike Dufek have been selected as co-captains by their teammates for the 2010 season.
Chris Berset also plays for the GB Baseball Team, and was a standout performer at the IBAF World Cup last September.
GB Team Manager Alan Smith said: “Chris was one of our best players at the World Cup and a great asset to the GB team, not just for his performance on the field but also for his approach to the whole trip. His attitude and behaviour were exemplary, never complaining, and he was always willing to go with the flow. He was a credit to himself, his parents, the GB programme and to his college coach.”
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Posted in: Squad News.
Tagged: players
It was announced today on mister-baseball.com that the Confederation of European Baseball has approved the proposed schedule for the 2010 European Baseball Championship which will be held in Stuttgart, Heidenheim and Neuenburg, Germany, from July 23 to August 1. As well as showing the confirmed schedule, the article on the Mister Baseball website also has information about ticket sales for entry to the event.
In November we announced that Britain will be matched up with Spain and Italy in its first-round group. Spain won the bronze medal in the most recent European Championship in 2007 while Italy – despite finishing seventh in the most recent Euros – has traditionally dominated European baseball along with the Netherlands. Sweden (6th in 2007), Croatia (8th) and Greece (did not participate) make up the rest of Britain’s group. The Great Britain team will be defending its 2007 silver medal.
Posted in: European Championship.
Tagged: EC · European Championship · Germany
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GB's Chris Falls with the silver medal trophy at the 2007 EC
The Mister Baseball website has revealed the format and the schedule for next summer’s European Championship in Germany, in which the Great Britain baseball team will defend its 2007 silver medal.
Britain will be matched up with Spain and Italy in its first-round group. Spain won the bronze medal in the most recent European Championship in 2007 while Italy – despite finishing seventh in the most recent Euros – has traditionally dominated European baseball along with the Netherlands. Sweden (6th in 2007), Croatia (8th) and Greece (did not participate) make up the rest of Britain’s group. GB defeated Croatia 4-1 on the way to qualifying for the second round of this summer’s Baseball World Cup. Later, it was beaten 10-3 by the Spaniards.
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Posted in: European Championship, International Baseball.
Tagged: Croatia · EC · European Championship · Italy · Spain
The British Baseball Academy will hold its first national training session this Sunday, November 1, at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire.
The British Baseball Academy is a BaseballSoftballUK programme that exists to ensure that all players with the appropriate levels of commitment have an opportunity to practice and improve their baseball skills.
Meanwhile, the Northern and Southern Regional Academies got off to a good start ahead of the National Academy, as Academy coaches ran practices in both the North and South of England on Sunday, October 25.
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Posted in: Junior Baseball.
Tagged: Academy · Junior Baseball · programme · training
The Great Britain baseball team has moved up four places in the International Baseball Federation’s official world rankings. The new rankings were published on the IBAF website yesterday (Oct 19) following the 2009 Baseball World Cup (BWC) which was held across Europe this September. Britain moved up from 25th to 21st, just outside breaking into the top 20 in the world in a set of rankings comprising 75 teams.
The IBAF World Rankings were introduced in January 2009 and are calculated by awarding points to IBAF member teams based on their final standings in IBAF-sanctioned events in a four-year window, or a period of time that encompasses two IBAF Baseball World Cups. The latest set of rankings takes into account Great Britain’s silver medal in the 2007 European Championship (EC) and replaces the 2005 Baseball World Cup with the final standings of the 2009 event. This September, GB qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 70 years and progressed to the second round, ultimately finishing 15th of 22 participants.
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Posted in: Baseball World Cup, International Baseball.
Tagged: BWC · IBAF · ranking · World Cup
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