Li Hsing Elementary School in Greater Taichung is to represent Taiwan at this year’s Asia-Pacific regional Little League Baseball (LLB) tournament, replacing Taipei Municipal Ming Dao Elementary School, the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association said yesterday.
After winning the championship title at the C.K. Hsieh Cup Baseball Tournament (謝國城盃) in April, Ming Dao had been in the running to represent the nation in the tournament.
However, the school was disqualified by the Chinese Taipei Student Baseball Federation on Friday last week after it was found that a transfer student on the team fell short of the federation’s requirements to compete.
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Both the team coach Wu Shih-hsien (吳世賢) and the school are now banned from competition for two years from Sept. 1, the Sports Affairs Administration said.
The federation’s rules stipulate that transfer students can only compete in tournaments two years after entering new schools.
The federation’s disciplinary committee yesterday said the runner-up, Chung Ping Elementary School in Taoyuan County, and the fourth-place holder, Chung Cheng Elementary School in Greater Kaohsiung also fell foul of the rule.
The performance of all three schools in the C.K. Hsieh Cup are to be struck from the record, with the schools and coaches from Chung Ping and Chung Cheng to be banned from competition for a year.
The federation’s technical committee decided yesterday afternoon that Li Hsing Elementary School, which took third place in the C.K. Hsieh Cup, would instead represent Taiwan at the LLB Asia-Pacific Tournament in the Philippines.
Ming Dao received a harsher punishment than the other two schools for the same violation because it was not the first time that the school had broken the rules, said Yeh Chih-hsien (葉志仙), a member of the Student Baseball Federation’s disciplinary committee.
Lin Hua-wei (林華韋), convener of the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association’s technical committee, said this year’s C.K. Hsieh Cup championship is to be given to Li Hsing Elementary School, adding that this was the first time that such a situation had ever happened.
Assocation secretary-general Lin Tsung-cheng (林宗成) said that the association hoped there would be no repeats of the incidents.
“Children should not have to bear the mistakes that adults make,” Lin Tsung-cheng said. “We will that the qualifications of the players are carefully reviewed.”
The federation said that it would find ways to let the players affected by the incidents play baseball again.
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