Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 31 (Xinhua) -- According to the Chinese Softball Association, the finals of the 2022-2023 "Panda Cup" China Slow-pitch Softball Enterprise League ended in Zhongshan, Guangdong on the 31st, and the Chengdu Taiwan Association brothers from the West China Division won the league championship.
This event is guided by the Department of Mass Sports of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and hosted by the Chinese Softball Association. Founded in 2019, the tournament adopts the format of sub-competitions, regional competitions and finals**. After five years of development, the tournament has become the highest level and largest national mass softball event. Affected by the epidemic, the 2022 regional competition and finals will be held together with the 2023 year, and a total of 88 sub-station competitions, 4 regional competitions and 1 finals have been completed in the Slow Pitch Softball Enterprise League in two years. There were 708 teams participating in the sub-competition, with nearly 20,000 participantsThere were 58 teams participating in the regional competition, with more than 1,200 participantsA total of 16 teams participated in the finals, with more than 500 participants.
The finals lasted for two days, and after the group stage and the knockout round, the Chengdu Taiwan Association brothers team won the championship, and the Wuxi Taiwan Association Red Wing team and the Akemi Warthog team won respectively.
Second and third place. Hong Rongjun and Ye Jiancheng of the Chengdu Taiwan Association Brothers won the titles of Most Valuable Players and Excellent Coaches respectively.