PHL baseball team likely to play in 2011 SEA Games

Source: gmanews.tv

It looks like the Philippine baseball team can get the chance to play in the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia after the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) decided to handle the affairs of the National squad for the meantime.

Philippine team SEA Games deputy chief of mission Julian Camacho said the POC will assign a person that will handle and manage the team until a new president is elected.

The Philippine Amateur Baseball Association (PABA) will hold an election on September 14 at the POC office in Philsports complex, Pasig City to replace Hector Navasero, who will step aside after leading the association for two decades.

"Mr. (Hector) Navasero (PABA president) said that he is willing to give way to the POC and put someone that will handle the team so that we can compete in the SEA Games. But right now, it's still 50-50 on whether they will compete in the SEA Games," said Camacho.

But so far, the national baseball team is on the freezer as they are not in the payroll of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC).

The baseball team has a chance of regaining the SEA Games gold medal it won in 2005 after being dethroned by Thailand in 2007.