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By Peter Della Penna
The USACA 2010 Junior Nationals, originally scheduled for November
12-14 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., before being postponed will now take
place from December 28-30 at Woodley Park in Los Angeles. The dates
were confirmed by USACA Vice President of Operations Manaf Mohamed.
Teams representing the New York, North West, South East and South West Regions
will
compete to be the National Champions at the U-19 level for 2010. North
West has already won the Senior Nationals and the U-15 National
Championship this year. They are also the reigning U-19 National
Champions from 2009.
Speaking about the decision to host the tournament in Los Angeles
instead of south Florida, USACA Cricket Committee chairman Krish Prasad
said one reason for the move was that USACA was looking to save money
on travel costs for this tournament by having it in Los Angeles since
two of the teams, North West and South West, are primarily based in
California.
USACA will be using the tournament to help select a team for the
2011 ICC U-19 Americas Qualifier. According to Mohamed, that tournament
will be hosted this year by USA in Florida from February 7-12. Matches
will be held at the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill and
Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City. USA will be competing against
defending champions Canada, as well as Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands
and Argentina.
Should USA finish in the top two at the ICC U-19 Americas
Qualifier like they did in 2009, they will advance to the U-19 World
Cup Global Qualifier. Several Canada-based web sites have reported that
the Global Qualifier is expected to take place in Ireland next July,
but no official announcement has been made by the ICC. Teams at the
Global Qualifier will be competing for spots in the 2012 ICC U-19 World
Cup at a site yet to be determined.