News (International)
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GB Men’s Fastpitch programme forges links with Zimbabwe
16 March 2023
Coaches from the GB Men’s Fastpitch programme have been in regular contact for some time with the Chi Town Eagles, a team of young softballers based in Chitungwiza, Harare, in Zimbabwe.
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GB Women’s Fastpitch & GB Baseball awarded increased UK Sport funding
13 February 2023
UK Sport has confirmed an additional £90,000 of funding into Great Britain's baseball and women's fastpitch softball senior national teams.
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GB Women to play for Women’s World Cup Final place in Ireland
16 December 2022
Details on the dates and the draw for the WBSC Women’s World Cup Qualifying Tournaments, to be played in three European locations next July, have now been released, and the GB Women have been drawn to play in Ireland.
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Tara Henry appointed as new GB Women’s Team Head Coach
10 December 2022
The British Softball Federation and BaseballSoftballUK are proud to announce that Tara Henry has been appointed as the seventh Head Coach in modern Great Britain Senior Women’s National Fastpitch Softball Team history.
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Americans top GB Futures to win sixth Softball World Series title
12 September 2022
The 2022 Softball World Series Tournament was played at Farnham Park on the weekend of 10-11 September, and there was a familiar winner, with the Yanks, representing Americans in the UK, defeating GB Futures in the Trophy final.
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Stags gain first win, then bow out at the European Men’s Super Cup
26 August 2022
The Stags recorded their first win at the European Super Cup on Friday, beating BSK Medvednica from Croatia in the Softball Europe Cup section of the tournament. But then a loss to the Dutch team Vennep Flyers knocked the Stags out of the competition.
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Stags go down to Spanish team in first Softball Europe Cup game
25 August 2022
The Stags, Great Britain’s entry in the European Men’s Super Cup, lost their first game on Thursday in the second phase of the tournament, the double-elimination Softball Europe Cup, and are now just one loss away from exiting the competition.
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Stags drop all three first-round games in European Men’s Super Cup
24 August 2022
Heavy rain caused chaos at the European Men’s Super Cup on Tuesday, but the organisers completed all first-round games by Wednesday evening, as scheduled. For the British entry, the Stags, that included three losses.
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Rain washes out the Stags at the European Men’s Super Cup
23 August 2022
The 2022 European Men’s Super Cup got under way on Monday in Prague and eight of the nine games on the schedule were completed before heavy rain washed out the last game of the day – the game involving the British entry, the Stags.
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The Mix fall short in European Women’s Cup bronze medal game
20 August 2022
The Mix, Britain’s representative in the 2022 European Women’s Cup, staged a late rally on Saturday in the bronze medal game against the Vienna Wanderers, but had to settle for fourth place as the Austrian team took the medal with a 7-3 win.