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Aspiring Baseball5 coaches in Australia can now gain World Baseball Softball Confederation accreditation to teach the discipline in the community.

The free WBSC course includes seven 30-40 minute videos and an assessment at the end.

The Baseball5 World Cup will be played in even years starting in 2022, the World Baseball Softball Confederation announced overnight.

WBSC had originally scheduled the mixed gender competition for this year but it was postponed due to COVID-19.

Australia will host the first-ever Oceania Baseball5 Qualifier in 2021.

The event – which will feature mixed-gender open and youth divisions – will decide Oceania’s representatives at the WBSC Baseball5 World Cup and Youth Baseball5 World Cup slated for next June in Mexico.

Baseball5’s debut at the Youth Olympic Games has been put on hold after the International Olympic Committee and Dakar 2022 host nation Senegal agreed to postpone the event until 2026.

The decision comes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause widespread concern around much of the world and after it already forced a major reshuffle of the IOC’s calendar, including the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year.

The first-ever WBSC Baseball5 World Cup will now be held in June 2021 to allow more time for qualifiers to take place following the outbreak of COVID-19.

Mexico was slated to host the inaugural Baseball5 World Cup and Youth Baseball5 World Cup in December but the WBSC executive board late last week decided to postpone the event.

Expressions of interest to host the first-ever Australian Baseball5 Championships close on Friday so what better time to look at the perfect venues for the sport’s newest discipline.

And due to its play everywhere nature the options for venues are pretty much limitless.

The first-ever Australian Baseball5 Championships will be held in July.

Baseball Australia today opened expressions of interest to host the three-day event which will be the biggest showcase of the fast-paced and youth-focused urban discipline ever held in Australia.

Baseball5 has been added to the Dakar 2022 Youth Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee approved the Dakar 2022 Organising Committee’s proposal to add Baseball5 to the program.

Brisbane Bandits will take Baseball5 to rural and indigenous Queensland communities next year as the new format of the game continues to grow in Australia.

The four-time defending Australian Baseball League champions yesterday announced they would undertake a Baseball5 road show early next year.

Six schools – and more than 130 students – got a taste of Baseball5 at the Sunnybank District Sport Cluster on Friday.

Students from Yeronga, Warrigal, Sunnybank Hills, Stretton, Runcorn Heights and Algester schools all experienced the new five-on-five street version of baseball and softball.