China Won Title at the 28th Boys Nankyu World Championship
By Qsl Sports Limited, PRNESunday, August 8, 2010
A Breakthrough Performance in QSL and CBA's Year Long Partnership
BEIJING, August 9, 2010 - QSL Sports Limited (QSL) is pleased to announce that China has won the
title of the 28th Boys Nankyu World Championship held in Tokyo at the end of
July, 2010. This is the first time in the past 11 years that China has won an
international championship represented by a team from the China Youth
Baseball League (CYBL).
QSL has signed a long-term exclusive partnership with Chinese Baseball
Association (CBA) in June 2009 to help promote the CYBL with the ultimate
goal of raising China's influence in the sport on the international stage.
The first CYBL national tournament was held in August 2009, right after the
announcement of the partnership. In one year's time, China has successfully
won an international baseball title.
The CYBL team representing China in this championship is made up of young
students from Da Cheng School in Beijing and players from baseball club "New
Star Dragon". The players in this club are mostly orphans or from a
disadvantaged background.
Mr. TIAN Yuan, a senior executive of Chinese Baseball Association, said,
"QSL promised the target of delivering a baseball world championship to CYBL
when negotiating the exclusive 15-year contract with us. But we never
expected getting a world championship trophy within the first year of the
privatization of CYBL. Mr. Huang, as the founder of QSL, is a man who can
keep his promise and always delivered."
Mr Randy LEVIN, President of the New York Yankees and Marc GANIS, owner
of Chicago-based Sportscorp Limited also sent their congratulations to QSL
for achieving this outstanding result. "Let's get these young players to the
Yankee stadium to honor them," Mr Levin said. The baseball team representing
China in this championship is the same group of CYBL players who went to the
Yankees' world championship trophy tour in Beijing earlier this year.
The tournament, organized by the International Boys Nankyu Baseball
Association (IBA) Japan, featured 16 teams from Taiwan, the United States,
Australia, China, Peru, South Korea, the Philippines, Paraguay, Singapore,
Thailand, Brazil and Japan.
They were divided into four divisions in the preliminary round, with the
top two from each division advancing to the knockout round. Last year's
championship went to a Japanese team.
During the championship game, China Taipei and China scored nil points
after the regulation six innings, but China won the title 6-3 in extra
innings, where each team started its half of the inning with the bases
loaded.
Nankyu is a Japanese term for rubber baseball, which is usually used by
teenage players for safety purposes. It follows the same rules as baseball.
QSL is a private company founded by Mr Kenny HUANG. It serves as an
investment platform to capture business opportunities in sports in China. Dr
YANG Guang, Executive Vice President of Franklin Templeton Investments,
partners with Huang to jointly promote the company's sports-related
investment. In addition to the CYBL partnership, QSL also has a 6-year
exclusive partnership (with an extension option for another 6 years) with CBA
to develop the China Baseball League (CBL), the only official professional
baseball league in China.
Rachel Chan, +852-2894-6309 or +852-9400-0979, rachel.chan at hillandknowlton.com.hk; Agnes Suen, +852-2894-6251 or +852-9050-5406, agnes.suen at hillandknowlton.com.hk, both of Hill and Knowlton Asia Limited for QSL Sports Limited
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