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The Greenville News Published 6:07 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2017 | Updated 10 hours ago <\/p>\n
A scene from the 2016 Big League Baseball World Series in Easley.(Photo: BART BOATWRIGHT\/Staff)Buy Photo <\/p>\n
There will be a little Down Under in the Upstate this summer. <\/p>\n
Little League Baseball announced Thursday that Australia has received a direct entry into its Senior League Baseball World Series, scheduled for July 29 to Aug. 5 at the J.B. \"Red\" Owens Complex in Easley. <\/p>\n
Players ages 13 to 16 are eligible to compete in the Senior League. Australia Baseball offered Senior League competition for the first time in 2016, when a team from Melbourne reached the World Series as champion of the Asia-Pacific Region and finished as runner-up. This season, the Australia champion will advance to the World Series without having to play in a regional. <\/p>\n
Little League said in a news release that its decision was based in large part because of the rapid growth of the organization since its arrival in Australia in 2008. Australia has 1,000 Little League teams, and participation has increased 50 percent in the past three years, according to the release. <\/p>\n
Easley hosted Little League Baseball's Big League World Series from 2001 to 2016. Little League announced last year that it was discontinuing its Big League division, for players ages 16 to 18. It also decided to moveits Senior League World Series to Easley from Bangor, Maine, which had hosted the Senior League World Series since 2002. <\/p>\n
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