Focus Taiwan
Date: 04/06/2020
By: Hsieh Ching-wen and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, April 6 (CNA) Taiwan's baseball authorities said Monday that its national teams in three different age brackets are automatically qualified to advance to the PONY Baseball world series events to be held later this year, after event organizers announced last week the cancellation of the Asia-Pacific regional competitions due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Taiwan's Chinese Taipei Baseball Association (CTBA) said it has received notification from PONY Baseball and Softball that since Taiwanese teams have won championship titles in its Pony Bronco League (players 11 to 12 of age); Pony League (13 to 14) and Palomino League (15 to 18) in 2019, they have all been granted berths to compete in this year's world series events.

The Pony Bronco league world series will be staged in Texas from July 31 to Aug. 3, while the world series of the Pony League will be held Aug. 7-12 in Pennsylvania and the Palomino League is slated to be held July 31-Aug. 3, also in Texas, according to the CTBA.

The CTBA said it is scheduled to hold tournaments within the country in May in closed-door format due to the COVID-19 pandemic to come up with national squads to compete in all three world series in the U.S. this summer.    [FULL  STORY]