Final Olympic Qualifier is over!

olympicbaseball March 14th, 2008

After eight days of competition, IBAF Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament is over, South Korea, Canada, Taiwan qualify for Beijing Olympics baseball, Canada finishes first, Taiwan loses to South Korea, finishes third.

“The goal coming in was to qualify for the Olympics,” said Canadian starter Brooks McNiven of Vancouver, “and open everybody else’s eyes that we’re not just cruising into this but that we’re here to win.”

2004 Olympic silver medal winner Australia miss even with a win over South Africa.

“It was tough going out there today and that could certainly be classed as one of the ugliest wins of all time, but there were a few things there really worth noting,” manager Jon Deeble said. “We could very well look back at that game for producing things like James Linger’s first hit for Australia and Brad Tippett’s first win, two things youre likely to see a lot more of for many years to come.”

2008 IBAF Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament Final Recap is here.

Game 25	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Mexico	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	6	0
Spain	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0

WP: Alvarez Ramirez (1-1) LP: Gutierrez Gutierrez (0-1)

RECAP BOX SCORE

Game 26	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Australia	4	0	3	2	0	0	3	1	0	13	14	4
South Africa	0	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	11	14	1

WP: Tippet (1-0) LP: Townend (0-1) HR: Luke Hughes

RECAP BOX SCORE

Game 27	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Korea	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	9	2
Chinese Taipei	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	7	2

WP: Kim, K. H. (2-0) LP: Lee C.-C. (0-1)

RECAP BOX SCORE

Game 28	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Germany	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	2
Canada	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	6	1

WP: Green (2-0) LP: Fries (1-1)

RECAP BOX SCORE

Final Standing (2008/3/14)
COUNTRY	GP	WO	LO	AVE	GB
KOREA	7	6	1	857	- (QUALIFYED)
CANADA	7	6	1	857	- (QUALIFYED)
CHINESE TAIPEI	7	5	2	714	1.0(QUALIFYED)
MEXICO	7	4	3	571	2.0
AUSTRALIA	7	4	3	571	2.0
GERMANY	7	2	5	286	4.0
SPAIN	7	1	6	143	5.0
SOUTH AFRICA	7	0	7	0	6.0