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A 33-game 2022 Australian U-16 Youth Championship schedule has been locked in.

Each of the seven teams will play at least eight games across the July 4-9 tournament at Redcliffe’s Talobilla Park.

Either Australian Capital Territory or Western Australia will open their account on day two of the 2022 Australian Women’s Baseball Championship in Adelaide on Saturday.

The two teams will clash from 5pm on diamond two as they look to bounce back from defeats to Victoria on Friday.

It has been 1090 days since Victoria claimed gold at the 2019 Australian Women’s Baseball Championship in Canberra.

After two long COVID-19 impacted years state and territory pride will be on the line once more when the 2022 Australian Women’s Baseball Championship gets underway in Adelaide on Friday.

Canberra’s Tom Shakespeare has his sights on playing for a four-year college after committing to an NJCAA Division II program.

The 18-year-old outfielder, a product of the Weston Creek Indians, will link up with Northeast Community College.

Queensland will defend its 2020 Australian U-16 Youth Championship title on home soil after the host for the event’s return to the calendar was locked in on Thursday.

Redcliffe, north-east of Brisbane, will host the 2022 tournament during the July school holidays in partnership with the Moreton Bay Regional Council.

Baseball Canberra have released its squads ahead of its league of the National Showcase Series scheduled for January.

More than 50 players have been named in the squads who will participate in the showcases scheduled to take place from Wednesday 12 January – Saturday 15 January 2022.

Adelaide will host the Australian Women’s Baseball Championship and Australian Youth Women’s Baseball Invitational in 2022.

Baseball Australia on Wednesday announced the Women’s Championship would be held for the first time since 2019 at West Beach from April 15-21.

South Australian and Australian Capital Territory athletes have been named for next month’s National Showcase Series at West Beach in Adelaide’s west.

Eleven players from the ACT will join 42 from across SA at the Showcase for U16 and U18 age groups from January 5-11.

Baseball Queensland has announced details of its National Showcase Series, finalising the full slate for next January’s Australian Youth Championship replacement content.

Following the cancellation of the 2021 Australian Youth Championship the localised National Showcase Series content will provide an opportunity for U-16 and U-18 talent to go head-to-head and be profiled to ensure exposure to scouts.

Adelaide will host the Australian Women’s Baseball Championship in 2021, for the first time since the tournament’s inception.

West Beach, in the city’s western suburbs, will hold the event from April 2-9.