There are also three Aosta Valley players in the Under 17 national team who, from 16 to 19 November, will be in Sofia, Bulgaria, to participate in its first European Baseball Championships5. The manager Maurizio Ballasoul of the Aosta Bugs, has called up 8 players (4 men and 4 women) and, among them, there are the Rossoneri Beatrice Deregibus from Riccardo Sanaboth born in 2005.
“It was quite a difficult choice”, comments Maurizio Balla, “especially for the males, who had a very equal level. In the end we chose our guys for the type of game and for the positions on the pitch. For the girls, we also looked at their performance at serve ”.
Italy is included in poule B together with Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Holland, Romania, while poule A includes Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Latvia, Moldavia, Turkey.
These are the squads: Iacopo Cavedon (Rimini 86 Baseball Club), Beatrice Deregibus (Aosta Bugs), Alessandro Micheli (Baseball Club Pesaro), Giulia Moretto (White Tigers AFB & S. Team / Nuove Pantere Lucca), Chiara Pecorelli (Acli Rivello) , Arianna Ponzi (Collecchio Soft Youth), Filippo Sabatini (Lion’s Baseball Nettuno), Riccardo Sana (Aosta Bugs).
