2002 World Junior Championship

The 2002 World Junior Championship was the 20th World Junior Championship. It was held from August 2 through August 12 in Sherbrooke, QC in Canada. The Cuba team won their 11th title and Taiwan took Silver.

Schedule[edit]

Venezuela 19, Brazil 1. Vicente Cafaro crushed 2 homers and drove in 5 runs, while Jesus Caro finished 7 innings.
Netherlands 3, Canada 12. Shawn Bowman collected 7 RBI and 2 homers, and Dave Davidson completed the game as he only allowed 2 runs in 7 innings.

Brazil 8, USA 20. Lastings Milledge and Delmon Young both blasted 2 homers, and Philip Stringer and Allen Craig also collected 3 hits. Chad Billingsley fanned 11 in 5 innings to get the win. Felipe Mukai and Rodrigo Shindo homered for Brazil.
South Korea 14, Spain 1. Sung-yul Lee hit a homer and Jeong Seo got 3 hits included a triple.
Cuba 15, Netherlands 3. Liuben Morales and Eliu Torres both drove in 3 runs. Juan Linares pitched 5 innings with 7 Ks to get the win.
Taiwan 12, Italy 2. Chin-Lung Hu and Chien-Yu Kuo homered for Taiwan, and winning pitcher was Yung-Chieh Yeh, who allowed 2 runs in 5 innings. Leonardo Zileri got the only RBI for the Italians.
Australia 6, Venezuela 7. Hector Gonzalez crushed a walk-off homer against Scott Mitchinson.
Canada 21, Panama 11. In another batter's contest, Eric Wolfe, Adam Loewen, Jamie Romak and Shawn Bowman all collected 3 RBI. Abdiel Carol hit a homer with 3 RBI for Panama.

Spain 4, Brazil 20. After allowing 20 runs yesterday, the Brazil bounced back and also scored 20. Mario Matsumori collected 5 RBI, and Rogerio Mukai completed the game with 10 strikeouts.
Netherlands 19, Italy 1. Rodiaan Gyselaar homered twice with 7 RBI to help his country knocked down Italy. Jos de Jong was the winning pitcher.
Venezuela 3, USA 13. Michael Rogers and Jarrod Saltalamacchia homered for America, and Delmon Young got 3 hits. Jeffrey Allison completed the game with 10 Ks in 8 innings.

U-18 Baseball World Cup