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Victoria Park/Belmont Reds picked up the first win of the 2021/22 WA State League 1 season on Wednesday night.

A seven-run fifth put the Reds on top as they secured a 10-1 win over Gosnells Hawks at Empire Ballpark.

The Australian Junior League Championship will remain in Adelaide for at least the next two years.

Baseball Australia today announced West Beach would host the 2022 and 2023 events with next year’s edition to be held from May 30 to June 3.

Victorian Mitch Ellis has won a championship in his first Minor League Baseball season.

The 26-year-old pitcher’s Quad Cities River Bandits wrapped up the High-A Central Championship with a 5-0 victory in game five on Monday.

South Australian Curtis Mead’s ninth-inning single helped Bowling Green Hot Rods seal a comeback win in the opening game of the High-A East Championship Series on Friday morning.

Mead’s single allowed two runs to score and the Hot Rods to hit the front as they secured a 10-8 over the Greensboro Grasshoppers at First National Bank Field.

Queensland pitcher Joel Hogan has become the latest Australian to commit to Division I junior college Clarendon.

The 17-year-old right-hander is the second Queenslander to link with the Bulldogs in recent months, following in the footsteps of Pine Hills Lightning catcher Tim Preston.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a line through a January Australian Youth Championship for a second-straight year, but a revised pathways calendar for 2022 has been revealed to ensure the country’s underage players still have plenty of opportunities for their development.

Baseball Australia today announced the Australian Youth Championship would not go ahead in January due to the ongoing uncertainty caused by the current COVID situation and border restrictions across the country.

Three Australians are set to feature in the Minor League Baseball playoffs when they get underway tomorrow.

Queenslander Aaron Whitefield, South Australian Curtis Mead and Victorian Mitch Ellis will be after championships with their respective teams across best-of-five series.

South Australian Curtis Mead’s first Triple-A homer sparked Durham Bulls to a comeback win – and league title – in Friday morning’s Minor League Baseball action.

Mead’s solo shot to left field in the fifth got the Bulls going down 6-0 and they went on to win 8-6  over Charlotte Knights at Truist Field.

Liam Hendriks created a slice of Chicago White Sox history on Friday morning, becoming the first pitcher in franchise history to record 30-plus saves and 100-plus strikeouts in a season.

The West Australian entered in a non-save situation in the eighth having not pitched since Sunday morning and struck out the side on 16 pitches as the White Sox went down to the Los Angeles Angels 9-3 at Guaranteed Rate Field.