Baseball at the Australian University Games has been part of the
Australian University Games program since the 2004 games. The games are held in the last week of September during mid-Semester break. The reigning champions and most successful team is
The University of Sydney who are members of the
Sydney Uni Baseball Club.
History
The first university baseball was established by the
Sydney Uni Baseball Club when it formed in 1899. By 1904, it was playing in the New South Wales Baseball Association Second Grade.[1] The next earliest reports of university baseball was the
University of Melbourne playing in the Victorian league in 1908.[2] Inter-varsity baseball started in Australia in 1923 when
Sydney,
Adelaide and
Melbourne played a triangular inter-varsity series.[3]
The 1994
Australian University Games were hosted by the
University of Wollongong. The baseball was held at Fred Finch Reserve at Berkeley, Wollongong. A massive 16 teams from around Australia participated.
The finals were contested with –
The 2007 Australian University Games was hosted on the
Gold Coast, Queensland.
Griffith University were the overall winners, while the
University of Western Australia won the baseball sports program. The baseball program was split into two divisions.
The 2013 Australian University Games were hosted on the
Gold Coast, Queensland from 29 September to 4 October 2013. A total of 12 teams competed, the most since 2007, with
University of Melbourne defeating
Monash University 9–5 to win their second consecutive gold.
Griffith University won the bronze.
The 2016 Australian University Games will be held in
Perth, Western Australia from 26 to 30 September 2016. A total of 9 teams will compete in the tournament being held at Kingsway Regional Sporting Complex, the home of the Wanneroo Giants Baseball Club.