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It took them eight innings, but the real South Korean team finally showed up Monday afternoon.

All-star Cody Asche didn’t get the ball out of the infield, but a ninth-inning grounder was ample enough wood on the ball to score the game-winning run for the Huskies on Sunday, who edged the Thunder Bay Border Cats 4-3.

International Baseball Federation president Riccardo Fraccari says he’s not happy with how things transpired getting Venezuela to Thunder Bay and promised the sport’s governing body will get to the bottom of it once the World Junior Baseball Champion

Stealing bases with large leads is frowned upon in polite baseball society. But this is the World Junior Baseball Championhip, and U.S. manager Garye Lafevers and his first base coach Brian McRae aren’t fooling around.

The Canadian national junior baseball team has come of age.

While their friends might not understand, playing Frisbee is a serious sport say Thunder Bay Ultimate members. Derek Tessier, 31, Matt Adams, 24, and Tom Bragnalo, 24, all started with the ultimate Frisbee league when it first formed a year ago.

Darwin Ramirez is a reliever by trade. And though no one will ever mistake the 17-year-old for Pedro Martinez, he does a pretty good job filling in in a pinch.

Eleven walks and 11 hits will usually deliver a win, and the Thunder Bay Border Cats were no excpetion Saturday night.

Myrtle McGinnis still throws a pretty mean sinker for someone who turned 100 on Friday.

For a tiny island in the northern Carribean, Cuba certainly knows how to produce great pitching.