Photo:Charlin Chang, Education Director at TECO-NY, presents the youth baseball players from Taiwan with a certificate from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-Wen, congratulating them on their victory in the 2016 PONY World Series championship.
 
The PONY 14U™ League is a baseball series specifically designed for players in their formative early-teen years, and the games are played on an appropriately sized field.

The final game of the 2016 PONY World Series 14U™ League was held on August 10, 2016 at Lew Hays Pony Field at Washington Park in Pennsylvania in the US, and the Chinese Taipei baseball team from Taiwan claimed the championship and successfully defended their title.

The defending champions advanced to this year’s final against the Maui team from Hawaii on August 10, by defeating Los Mochis from Mexico 5-0 on August 6, and then Chesterfield from Virginia 9-2 on August 9. Taiwan's youth baseball team then won a convincing 12-2 victory over their Maui opponents to claim Taiwan’s 8th Pony League world title since 1993.

President Tsai Ing-wen sent her warmest congratulations to the team on hearing the news, and Charlin Chang, Director of the Education Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York presented congratulation certificates from President Tsai Ing-wen, from Vice President Chen Chien-jen, from Executive Yuan Premier Lin Chuan, and from Education Minister Pan Wen-chung to the team to celebrate their victory in the 2016 PONY World Series championship.

The members of the Chinese Taipei team were the players (and their player number): Chang Hung-Chieh (15), Chen Yen-Kai (3), Ho Heng-Yu (10), Huang Kai (5), Lee Yi-We (12), Li Han-Sheng (4), Lin Chen-Hsun (2), Lin Kuan-Ting (8), Lin Tzu-Wei (1), Shen:Po-Yu (7), Tsai Yao-Yu (6), Tsai Yu-Cheng (11), Wang Hao-Che (9), Wei You-Bo (14), and Yang Li-Wei (13), and manager Chiu Shih-Teng, and coaches Yang Kuan-Yi, and Su Wei-Chieh.

The final match at Lew Hays Pony Field at Washington Park drew huge attention from Pittsburg’s Taiwanese community, and local Taiwanese people organized a cheer group to spur on the Chinese Taipei baseball team. The team performed outstandingly and the spectators present at the field all praised their wonderful teamwork.