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Country | Belarus |
Dates | 28 June - 2 July |
Teams | 8 |
The 2011 European Juveniles Baseball Championship was an under-12 international baseball competition held in Brest, Belarus from June 28 to July 2, 2011. It featured teams from Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. [1]
Teams | W | L | Pct. | GB | R | RA |
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Austria | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Belarus | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Russia | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Ukraine | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Teams | W | L | Pct. | GB | R | RA |
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Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Lithuania | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Poland | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
Romania | 0 | 0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0 |
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