By Daniel Etchells Saturday, 2 April 2016
The 2016 WBSC Junior Men’s Softball World Championship is due to take place in Midland, Michigan in July ©WBSC
Two-time defending champions Argentina have been drawn in the same pool as hosts United States for the 2016 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Junior Men’s Softball World Championship in Midland, Michigan.
The South American nation, which captured the gold medals in the Canadian city of Whitehorse in 2014 and on home soil in Paraná in 2012, are also joined in Pool A by Australia, Botswana, Czech Republic, Denmark and Venezuela.
World number one ranked nation and 2014 silver medallists New Zealand headline Pool B, which features Canada, Israel, Mexico, South Africa and Japan – the 2012 runners-up and 2014 bronze medallists.
Competition is scheduled to take place from July 24 to 30 at the Currie Stadium in Emerson Park.
The top four teams from each round-robin pool will advance into a double-page play-off system.
As the home nation, the US will be hoping to improve on their fifth-place finishes at the last two editions of the event.