NEVER SEEN BEFORE


The top six ranked Men's International Softball Federations in the world will compete over 3 days at Palmerston Norths Colquhoun Park November 18-20, 2022, as a pre-lude to the Tradestaff Men's Softball World Cup. Competing International Federations include current world champions Argentina (1), Japan (2), Canada (3), Australia (4) Czech Republic (5), and hosts the Golden Homes New Zealand Black Sox (6).

Over 3 days the world's best men's softball teams will compete in round robin play before the top two teams will battle it out in the final on Sunday.

The Series will be the highest ranked tournament to have ever been staged outside of a world cup. For the first time anywhere on the globe the current top 6 ranked teams will compete at the same tournament.

Tradestaff International Invitational Series

Team Rosters

SCHEDULE

18 - 20 NOVEMBER 2022

Date Time Teams Diamond Result Streaming
Saturday 19 November 9am New Zealand vs Canada 1 2 - 4 Click
Saturday 19 November 10am Argentina vs Australia 2 2 - 3  
Saturday 19 November 11am Japan vs Czech Republic 1 3 - 0  Click
Saturday 19 November 12pm Canada vs Argentina 2 3 - 0  
Saturday 19 November 12pm New Zealand vs Japan 1 0 - 6 Click
Saturday 19 November  2.30pm Australia vs Czech Republic 1 1 - 8 Click
Saturday 19 November 5pm Canada vs Czech Republic 2 5 - 1  
Saturday 19 November  5pm Australia v Japan 1 5 - 4 Click
Saturday 20 November 7.30pm New Zealand vs Argentina 1 3 - 2 Click
Sunday 20 November 9.30am Canada vs Japan 1 1 - 7 Click
Sunday 20 November 12pm New Zealand vs Australia 1 6 - 5 Click
Sunday 20 November  12pm Argentina vs Czech Republic 2 8 - 0  
Sunday 20 November 2.30pm New Zealand vs Czech Republic 1 2 - 3 Click
Sunday 20 November 2.30pm Argentina vs Japan 2 0 - 6  
Sunday 20 November 5.00pm Canada vs Australia 1 0 - 2 Click
Sunday 20 November 7.30pm Australia vs Japan (FINAL) 1 4 - 0 Click

STANDINGS

 

MENS ROUND ROBIN 1

ARGENTINA
AUSTRALIA
CANADA
CZECH REPUBLIC
JAPAN
NEW ZEALAND
POINTS
PLACING
ARGENTINA   2-3 0-3 8-0 0-6 2-3 2 5TH
AUSTRALIA 3-2   2-0 8-1 5-4 5-6 8 1ST
CANADA 3-0 0-2   5-1 1-7 4-2 6 3RD
CZECH REPUBLIC 0-8 1-8 1-5   0-3 3-2 2 6TH
JAPAN 6-0 4-5 7-1 3-0   6-0 8 2ND
NEW ZEALAND 3-2 6-5 2-4 2-3 0-6   4 4TH

LEADER BOARD

BATTERS - Final results

 
NAME TEAM PA AB HITS BA
Hikaru Matsuda Japan 14 10 6 .600
Gonzalo Augusto Ojeda Argentina 9 7 4 .571
Vojtech Buchner Czech Republic 9 6 3 .500
Tane Mumu New Zealand 24 20 9 .450
Connor Peden New Zealand 27 22 9 .409
Ben Enoka New Zealand 30 21 8 .381
Justin Laskowski Canada 13 8 3 .357
Scott Patterson Australia 19 14 5 .357
Callum Beashell Australia 16 14 5 .357
Rhys Evans New Zealand 23 20 7 .350

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LEADER BOARD

HOMERUNS - Final results

 
NAME TEAM HOME RUNS
Nicholas Shalles Australia 2
Hikaru Matsuda Japan 2
Connor Peden New Zealand 2
Scott Patterson Australia 1
Lucio Retamar Argentina 1
Joshua McGovern Australia 1
Ryoyu Une Japan 1
Hayden Mathew Australia 1
Seii Kuroiwa Japan 1
Jerome Raemaki New Zealand 1
Bradley Bennett New Zealand 1
Keisuke Kitazawa Japan 1
Marek Maly       Czech Republic 1
Tomas Klein Czech Republic 1
Cameron Watts New Zealand 1
Julian Jemmott            Australia 1
Bradley Ezekiel           Canada 1

LEADER BOARD

PITCHERS - Final results

 
RANK NAME TEAM BATTERS FACED INNINGS PITCHED EARNED RUNS EARNED RUN AVERAGE
1 Marshall Kronk Australia 74 19 0 0.00
2 Reo Koyama Japan 27 7 0 0.00
3 Justin Schofield Canada 15 4 0 0.00
4 Jonas Hajny Czech Republic 16 4 0 0.00
5 Ty Sebastian Canada 11 3 0 0.00

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LEADER BOARD

RBI'S - Final results

 
RANK NAME TEAM RBI'S
1 Tane Mumu New Zealand 11
2 Connor Peden New Zealand 10
3 Jerome Raemaki New Zealand 8
4 Hikaru Matsuda Japan 7
5 Seii Kuroiwa Japan 4
5 Callum Beashell Australia 4
5 Justin Laskowski Canada 4

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