The 12th Blacktown Junior International Challenge has come and gone for other year with yet another wonderful tournament.

Featuring a boys’ team and a girls’ team from the Japan All Elementary Schools and a boys’ team from New Zealand take on teams representing NSW Metro and NSW Country teams across 28 games of great Softball.

The international squads proved too strong, winning with the Princess Japan side winning the girls competition again, while the ISA NZ team won the boys competition for the fourth year.

The weather played its part with the several regular events such as the BBQ on the Diamond and the coaches Teeball game washed out.

However, the All-Star games still went ahead with the Japanese boys team winning 7-5 and the Japanese girls winning 7-0 over the All-Star girls.

The Japanese teams will also get to sight see, going to Featherdale this morning before travelling to the Opera House and a Darling Harbour cruise before flying out tonight.

Nippon Travel Agency has been part of the program for all 12 years it has been running and was the major sponsor of the event. Softball NSW would like to thank NTA for their support and look forward to an ongoing partnership.

Thank you to the many volunteers who assisted throughout the weekend – it was greatly appreciated and made the event such a great success.

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