Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/14
By: Emmanuelle Tzeng and Angela Huang

Paris, Aug. 14 (CNA) Hsu Yung-chung (許永忠) of Taiwan placed third in the men’s 70-74

300 meter hurdles at the biennial World Masters Athletics Championships (WMAC) in Lyon, France, on Tuesday.

Hsu, 73, and Dietmar Steiner of Austria both finished in a time of 50.67 behind the winner, Hans-Jurgen Fruhauf of Germany, but Steiner had a better record in the qualifying rounds and was judged second, while Hsu was awarded third place.

In an interview after the event, Hsu said he had learned about the WMAC in 2013 and been training for the games for only 18 months.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date:  Aug 15, 2015
By: Paul Huang  /  Contributing reporter

Behind a four-run sixth that included a two-run blast by Pan “TAKE” Wu-hsiung, the

Uni-President Lions roughed up the previously red-hot Chinatrust Brothers 8-3 at the Sinjhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei City last night to start their three-game series on a high note.

The win not only nipped a four-game winning streak for the top-ranked Brothers, but also cut their lead over the second-placed Lions to just two games as the Cats look to make up some ground against the league leaders with a strong showing over the weekend.

Knowing they needed a fast start against the in-form Brothers, the home Lions wasted little time getting on the board with a pair of runs in the opening frame when Liu Fu-hao went deep against Brothers starter Lin Ying-chieh with a two-run blast.

After a scoreless second and third, Uni-President doubled their lead in the fourth, with Kuo Fu-lin legging out an infield single against Lin Ying-chieh and scoring on Lin Chih-hsiang’s sacrifice fly before Liu singled in his third RBI of the game one batter later.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 14, 2015
By: AFP, JAKARTA

World No. 1 Carolina Marin is to undergo physiotherapy ahead of her quarter-final

appearance at the badminton World Championships, after rolling her ankle yesterday during her third-round win over Taiwan’s Pai Yu-po in Jakarta.

The injury-prone Spaniard fell to the ground in pain after an awkward stumble in the first set, with several tense minutes passing before she gingerly returned to the court.

Marin went on to defeat the unseeded Pai 21-11, 18-21, 21-17 but it was an unsettling experience for the top seed, who nearly missed the world championships entirely due to a separate injury.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/13
By: Lin Hung-han and Bill Lin

Taipei, Aug. 13 (CNA) The 2015 Asian Baseball Championship will be held Sept. 16-20 in

Taichung, central Taiwan, according to the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association (CPBA).

A total of six countries, including defending champion Japan, South Korea, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, and host country, Taiwan, have confirmed their participation in the tournament.

The championship will run on a round-robin basis and the best team will be bestowed with the title of the tournament.

If there are three teams tied at the top of the tournament standings, the team with the highest Team’s Quality Balance (TQB) in the head-to-head games played will win the championship.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date:  Aug 14, 2015
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter, with CNA, WASHINGTON

A Taiwanese youth baseball team of 13 and 14-year-olds won the Pony League Youth

Baseball Championship in the Pittsburgh suburb of Washington, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, with a 12-1 victory over a team from San Bernardino, California.

After two strike outs in the first inning, the Taiwanese side went on an all-out offensive. Hits from Chen Feng and Wu Chih-lung put them up 5-0 in the first, forcing the US team to replace starting pitcher Devyn Lopez.

In the fourth inning, Ho Yi-lung smacked a home run to put the team up 6-1. The fifth inning saw the opposing pitcher still unable to control the tourists, allowing another six runs to see the lead stretch to 12-1.

Five Taiwanese players had multiple hits, led by Ho who went four-for-four with a solo homer, a double and two singles.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/10
By: Oscar Wu and Bill Lin

Taipei, Aug. 10 (CNA) A Taiwanese team representing the Asia Pacific region staved off elimination twice on Sunday to propel itself into a showdown for a place in the 2015 Pony League Bronco World Series in California on Monday.

The Taiwanese team, which lost its first game in the double elimination tournament, knocked out a team from Swansea, Massachusetts 24-3 in its first game on Sunday and then upended the previously unbeaten squad of Bayamon from Puerto Rico 11-8.

Because it was the Caribbean representative’s first loss in the bracket, Taiwan will have to defeat Bayamon again on Monday afternoon in California time to earn a spot in the World Series final against a team representing the tournament’s host city, Los Alamitos, California.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/09
By: Lee Chin-wei and Bear Lee

Taipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) Taiwanese women boxer Pin Meng-chieh （嬪夢婕）beat defending

champion Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan Sunday to take the gold medal in the 48-51 kg category of the 5th Taipei City Cup 2015 International Boxing Tournament.

Taiwan later pocketed in its second gold as Tu Po-wei （杜柏緯）defeated Hiroto Kyoguchi of Japan in the final of men’s 46-49 kg category event.

Around 160 boxers from 18 countries are competing in the tournament being held Aug. 6-9 at the the Taipei Gymnasium.     [FULL  STORY]