OSCAR Saggus has been chosen to represent his country.<\/p>\n
The Coffs Coast baseball player has been selected to represent Australia as part of the Australia Expos team on an upcoming tour to the United States.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old will take his place in the Australian junior side for the tour in June and July, which will see the national team take on high-level American teams in Hawaii and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The young gun currently plays for the Sawtell Dodgers in the Coffs Harbour Baseball Association A-grade competition, as both a catcher and infielder.<\/p>\n
The Australian junior selectee was looking forward to mixing it against the top-class American talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough competition, and I\u2019m going to give it my all and hopefully learn a lot from them, and try to help make myself a better player,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd hopefully catch the eye of the scouts as I hope to play college baseball one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
A current Sawtell Dodgers teammate will be accompanying him on the US trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael Crossland will be taking me over as he\u2019s the Expos team manager,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been a good mentor for me, as have my other Dodgers teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n
The St Louis Cardinals fan explained why he loved playing the pivotal position of catcher.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get to control the field and tell everyone what to do, it\u2019s like being a captain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Before heading to the US, Oscar will line up for the Far North Coast side at next month\u2019s Junior League State Championships in Sydney.<\/p>\n
To help support the costs of the trip, Oscar\u2019s family and local community have been organising a number of fundraisers.<\/p>\n
By Aiden BURGESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCAR Saggus has been chosen to represent his country. The Coffs Coast baseball player has been selected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-566337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}