Baseball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

Baseball – Women's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Baseball – Women's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark
Dates	July 20–26, 2015
Competitors	90 from 5 nations
Medalists
	United States
	Canada
	Venezuela

The women's baseball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, was held at the President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark in Ajax, from July 20 to 26.^[1] Women's baseball was making its Pan American Games debut, after being added to the program at the 2013 Pan American Sports Organization's general assembly.^[2] All women's matches happened on the main field.

For these Games, the women competed in a 5-team tournament. The teams were grouped into one single pool and all teams played each other in a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams after the round robin played for gold, and teams ranked third and fourth contested the bronze-medal match.^[3]

Qualification

A total of five women's team qualified to compete at the games. Canada as host nation qualified automatically, along with the top four nations at the qualification event held in March 2015.^[3] Women's rosters can have a maximum of 18 athletes.^[3]^[4]

Summary

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Canada
2015 Pan American Women's Baseball Championships^[5]	March 8–15	Concepción de la Vega	4	United States Venezuela Cuba Puerto Rico
Total			5

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's tournament	United States^[6]^[7] Veronica Alvarez Ryleigh Buck Samantha Cobb Alex Fulmer Veronica Gajownik Brittany Gomez Jade Gortarez Tamara Holmes Sarah Hudek Anna Kimbrell Jenna Marston Stacy Piagno Nicole Rivera Cydnee Sanders Marti Sementelli Michelle Snyder Malaika Underwood Kelsie Whitmore	Canada^[8] Melissa Armstrong Amanda Asay Jessica Bérubé Veronika Boyd Claire Eccles Jenna Flannigan Jennifer Gilroy Rebecca Hartley Kelsey Lalor Nicole Luchanski Daniella Matteucci Autumn Mills Heidi Northcott Katherine Psota Vanessa Riopel Stéphanie Savoie Ashley Stephenson Bradi Wall	Venezuela^[9] Migreily Ángulo Ofelia Arrieche Sor Brito Dayvis Cazorla Giddelys Cumana Ingrid Escobar Osmari Garcia Daily Gimenez Lelis Gomez Oriannys Hernandez Kerlys Pérez Marianne Pérez Esquia Rengel Leonela Reyes Maria Rincon Astrid Rodriguez Patricia Segovia Maigleth Torres

Rosters

At the start of tournament, all five participating countries had up to 18 players on their rosters.^[3]

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on April 20, 2015.^[10]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

The Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, was the venue for the women's baseball competition

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	United States	4	4	0	33	7	+26	1.000	—	Advanced to the Gold medal match
2	Canada	4	3	1	26	9	+17	.750	1	Advance to the Bronze medal match
3	Venezuela	4	2	2	32	30	+2	.500	2	Advance to the Bronze medal match
4	Puerto Rico	4	1	3	17	27	−10	.250	3
5	Cuba	4	0	4	8	43	−35	.000	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

20 July 2015 15:00	United States	10–6	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 847
		Boxscore

20 July 2015 19:00	Cuba	1–13	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,602
		Boxscore

21 July 2015 15:00	Cuba	5–6	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 975
		Boxscore

21 July 2015 19:00	Venezuela	3–9	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,375
		Boxscore

22 July 2015 15:00	Canada	3–2	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,775
		Boxscore

22 July 2015 19:00	United States	11–0	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 773
		Boxscore

23 July 2015 15:00	Cuba	2–13	Venezuela	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 977
		Boxscore

23 July 2015 19:00	Puerto Rico	0–9	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 547
		Boxscore

24 July 2015 15:00	Venezuela	10–9	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,803
		Boxscore

24 July 2015 19:00	Canada	1–3	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 3,469
		Boxscore

Medal round

Bronze medal			Gold medal

			1	Canada	3
2	Venezuela	1		United States	11
3	Canada	6

Bronze medal match

25 July 2015 19:00	Venezuela	1–6	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,847
		Boxscore

Gold medal match

26 July 2015 12:00	Canada	3–11	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 5,224
		Boxscore

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	United States	5–0
	Canada	4–2
	Venezuela	2–3
4	Puerto Rico	1–3
5	Cuba	0–4

References

^ "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. September 15, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 18, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
^ "2015 Pan Am Games to include women's baseball". baseball.ca/. Baseball Canada. February 11, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sport Technical Manual Baseball". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
^ Morosi, Jon Paul (January 21, 2014). "Sources: MLB to allow minor leaguers to play in Pan American Games". foxsports.com/. FOX Sports. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
^ "USA wins Women's Baseball Pan Am Qualifier". ibaf.org/. International Baseball Federation (IBAF). March 12, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
^ "2015 Women's Pan American Games Roster". USAbaseball.com. USA Baseball. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^ "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: USA - United States" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. July 19, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^ "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: CAN - Canada" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. July 19, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^ "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: VEN - Venezuela" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. July 19, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^ Kennedy, Brendan (April 20, 2015). "Pan Am Games baseball schedule announced". Toronto Star. Toronto, Canada. Retrieved April 25, 2015.

[1] "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. September 15, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 18, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2014.

[a-2] "2015 Pan Am Games to include women's baseball". baseball.ca/. Baseball Canada. February 11, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

[roster-3] "Sport Technical Manual Baseball". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved June 13, 2015.

[4] Morosi, Jon Paul (January 21, 2014). "Sources: MLB to allow minor leaguers to play in Pan American Games". foxsports.com/. FOX Sports. Retrieved January 22, 2014.

[5] "USA wins Women's Baseball Pan Am Qualifier". ibaf.org/. International Baseball Federation (IBAF). March 12, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.

[6] "2015 Women's Pan American Games Roster". USAbaseball.com. USA Baseball. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2016.

[7] "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: USA - United States" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. July 19, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2016.

[8] "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: CAN - Canada" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. July 19, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.

[9] "Baseball: Women: Team Roster: VEN - Venezuela" (PDF). Toronto2015.org. Pan American Games. July 19, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.

[10] Kennedy, Brendan (April 20, 2015). "Pan Am Games baseball schedule announced". Toronto Star. Toronto, Canada. Retrieved April 25, 2015.

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