The USA Baseball Junior National Team was...
From Staff and Wire Reports
The USA Baseball Junior National Team was defeated for the first time in the 1999 Junior Pan Am Games, losing Friday to Panama, 8-4, in a semifinal game at Universitario Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela.
The loss puts Team USA into the bronze-medal game today against either Cuba or Venezuela. Team USA has already qualified for the 1999 IBA World Championships Aug. 6-15 in Taiwan by finishing in the top four of this tournament.
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