Baseball Canada announced, today, that Gatineau, Qué has been named as the host city for its 2006 National Women’s Invitational Championship.
The tournament, which will be held July 20 to 23 at Sancscartier Park in Gatineau, will feature the best female baseball players in the country, representing six teams from Ontario (2), Québec, Alberta, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
“The Outaouais is one of the best regions for the development of women’s baseball in Québec,” says André Lachance, Baseball Canada’s Manager of Baseball Operations and Head Coach of the Canadian Women’s National Team. “Gatineau’s amateur baseball association has solid base of quality volunteers who will make sure this tournament is a big success.”
The championship will also be used to select its 18-person roster for the Canadian National Women’s Team, which will compete at the 2nd Baseball World Cup in Taipei, Taiwan August 1 to 6, 2006.
“This Championship is, for all intents and purposes, one of the only opportunities these athletes have to show us what they’ve got and try to earn a spot the team that will compete at the World cup, where our goal is to win a gold medal,” says Lachance. “The level of competition we’re going to see in Gatineau is very high and will turn some heads. A lot of baseball fans are going to discover that baseball can also be played very well by Women.”
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