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Team Australia has named a U-18 squad on the back of last week’s cancellation of its would-have-been final selection camp due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A 38-player squad has been named, featuring 14 players from Queensland, 12 from New South Wales, five from both Victoria and Western Australia, along with one player from both the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia.

The National Junior Camp planned for later this year has been scrapped due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Baseball Australia today confirmed the difficult decision to cancel the camp had been made with multiple states in lockdown and a range of border restrictions implemented around the country.

Boral Team Australia will not compete at two underage World Cup events scheduled for later in the year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Baseball Australia this week finalised a decision not to enter teams into the 2021 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup in the US and the U-12 Baseball World Cup slated for Taiwan.

A trimmed National Junior Camp squad has been revealed ahead of Boral Team Australia’s WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup roster being finalised in August.

Baseball Australia today announced the athletes set for the final stage of selection following the completion of the National Junior Camp in Canberra on Sunday.

Three players have been added to next month’s National Junior Camp in Canberra.

New South Wales outfielder Zac Newbold, South Australian infielder Max Stagg and West Australian pitcher Connor Chehab have been invited to the camp at the Australian Institute of Sport from April 3-11 as part of Boral Team Australia’s preparations for this year’s WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup scheduled for Florida.