QUEENSLAND BASEBALL UMPIRES ASSOCIATION

21/12/2025

🎌 Kookaburra Cup 2025 🇦🇺

Queensland Women’s Squad vs Kobe Koryo – Friendship Series

Game 1 is officially underway at All Stars Baseball Club as the Queensland Women’s Squad takes on Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School in the 2025 Kookaburra Cup Friendship Series.

This three-game international series highlights the strong connection between Baseball Queensland and the Japanese baseball community.

Follow the series live on GameChanger: Link in the comments

19/12/2025

JUNIORS GIVING BACK 😍

Congratulations to Padres Juniors Henry and Tyler who umpired at the LL Girls State Titles this week. By all accounts they did a fabulous job. We’re very proud of you both. Thank you for giving back to our baseball community. 🙌

Thanks also go out to Ana and Cass who officiated at the tournament too. We might be biased but we think Padres people are the best type of people. 🤩

14/12/2025

Congratulations to the following umpires on their medal appointments for the 2025 Queensland Women’s State Titles.

Gold Medal 🥇
PU: Cassandra Hall
U1: Michael Florence
U3: Casey Saade

Bronze Medal 🥉
PU: Aaron Shepherd
U1: Casey Saade
U3: Tiffany Robertson

11/12/2025

Congratulations to our SDU Paul Latta

🤘PAUL LATTA - 250 GAMES🤘

Congratulations to Paul Latta who became the fourth umpire to reach 250 games in the modern ABL last weekend in Adelaide.

The Lismore native is one of a handful of umpires who played in the ABL and last year was named the League's Umpire of the Year.

28/11/2025

Last Friday the Sunshine Coast Baseball Association held a QBUA Umpire Program evening at our club rooms.

It was great to see some of our umpires attend and a huge thank you to Brian for organising 👏🏻⚾️🙌🏻

If you missed this event but are interested in finding out more about umpiring, please let us know!

26/11/2025

The QSport awards are happening this Thursday night!

Two of our own are represented in the nominations for the Sports Administrator and Sports Officials categories for the 2025 QSport awards. These nominees were recognised at our Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner and have made exemplary contributions to the sport. Tickets are still available, so organise a table and show your support for our fellow baseball volunteers. 🏅

https://www.baseballqueensland.com.au/2025-qsport-awards/

13/11/2025

Before the ABL kicks off tonight, we’d like to recognise the efforts of Tom West, Ben Nash and David Brodie who umpired a very smoothly run U23 World Cup Qualifiers last week between Australia and Guam. They were ably supervised by Trent Thomas.

12/11/2025

QBUA UMPIRE PROGRAM

The Sunshine Coast Baseball Club will be holding a QBUA Umpire Program on the evening of Friday 21st November 2025 followed with practical sessions on Saturday 22nd November 2025.

The cost of this event will be covered by the club and we encourage anyone who is interested in umpiring to attend.

To register your interest in attending or to find out more information, please speak to Brian or email: [email protected]

QUEENSLAND BASEBALL UMPIRES ASSOCIATION

11/11/2025

⚾ Expression of Interest – Women’s State Titles Umpires ⚾

The 2025 Women’s State Titles are coming up, and we’re looking for umpires to help across the following tournaments 👇

👩‍🦰 Women’s Div 1 & Div 2
📍 Indians Baseball Club
📅 Fri 12 – Sun 14 Dec
🕐 Note: Games will run all day Friday (not just Friday night this year).

👧 Youth Women & Little League Girls
📍 Narangba Baseball Club
📅 Mon 15 – Wed 17 Dec

If you’re available to umpire, please email your availability to Barry Foat at [email protected] and which divisions you’re interested in:
1️⃣ Women’s Div 1
2️⃣ Women’s Div 2
3️⃣ Youth Women
4️⃣ Little League Girls

If you’ve already been appointed to a regional team, please let Barry Foat know which region or team has accepted you.

Those willing to be placed on a general list for regions needing extra umpires are also encouraged to get in touch.

Thanks as always for supporting women’s baseball and helping make these titles a success! 🙌

11/11/2025

31/10/2025

In light of the tragic news of a 21 year old woman being killed by lightning at a Sunshine Coast sports facility yesterday, it is a good time to be reminded that Little League rules dictate that if lightning is seen or thunder heard, play should be suspended for thirty (30) minutes from the last lightning strike.

Although our regional senior competitions don't have a specific lightning rule, electricity doesn't discriminate based off age - so we highly recommend umpires use this same basis for deeming further play to be unsafe.

Here's to hoping for a safe and dry weekend.

Each year across the United States, thunderstorms produce an estimated 25 million cloud-to-ground flashes of lightning – each one of those flashes is a potential killer. According to the National […]