
The Taiwan team defeated Mexico 2:1 and challenged the team's first youth five-a-side baseball gold medal.
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Taiwan's five-a-side baseball team defeated Senegal, Türkiye and Cuba in the group stage and advanced to the semi-finals with three consecutive wins.
Taiwan's five-a-side baseball team defeated Mexico 2:1 in the semi-finals of the Dhaka Youth Olympic Five-a-side Baseball Tournament held in Senegal, advancing to the gold medal match and will face off against the "Red Lightning" Cuba team again to challenge for the team's first Youth Olympic gold medal.
The Taiwan 5-a-side baseball team defeated hosts Senegal and Turkey in the group stage, and defeated "Red Lightning" Cuba for the first time. It advanced to the group stage with 3 consecutive wins. It also continued its good performance in the semi-finals today, relying on consecutive hits in the first set. They defeated Mexico 12:2 in advance. Although they conceded the second set 2:8 and were at the disadvantage of losing points in the final set, they launched a counterattack in the second set and scored 14 hits in the game. They finally won 7:2 and successfully won the gold medal match.
Taiwan's current Youth Olympics futsal baseball team consists of 8 players including An Weijie, Zhang Wenting, Xu Ziyi, Hsu Shaoting, Chen Yuen, Chen Wanzi, Liu Enhao and Pan Yufan. Next, they will face the strong enemy Cuba again. The game will start at 0:30 tomorrow morning to compete for the first Youth Olympics futsal baseball gold medal in the team's history.

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