Catching Up on Old News...

*The President Lions have signed 4 players to multi-year deals: RHP Yueh-Ping Lin will make 10.8 million NT ($327 K) over the next 3 years. OF Wu-Hsiung Pan, DH Lien-Hung Chen, and C Chih-Kang Kao also agreed to multi-year deals as well.


*In the championship game of the Chu-Lo Cup, Kyoto - Japan won 4-0 behind their SP who was clocked at nearly 80 mph! He threw a no-hitter, K'ing 13.


*Rong-Hao Hsieh threw 1 inning of relief for NTCPE (TSU-Taichung) as it won 18-0 on the 25th. Hsieh gave up a hit, K'd 2 and was clocked at 91 mph. After the game, he stated that he still hopes to play overseas as a pitcher.
Teammate Chia-Hang Lee (who played in the ABL with the Oilers this past summer) helped his team clinch their group's top seed. TSU-Taichung won 5-2 on the 26th behind Lee's 7 K's in 6 innings of work (clocked at a high of 89, Lee stands only 5'7").


*The children's NT (12 and under) won the 5th Asian "A" Championships held in Hong Kong. The team defeated Japan in the championship game, thus earning bragging rights for the 4th straight competition ('02, '04, '06 Asian champs). The team came back after being upset in pool play, losing 9-5 to China in the opening game. The team then reeled off 4 straight wins (15-1 vs. Indonesia, 23-0 vs. Hong Kong, 7-1 vs. South Korea, 9-1 vs. Japan). P Shao-Wei Liu was instrumental in shutting down the bats of Japan and South Korea, while Che-Chung Yeh helped power the team to a few W's with 5 HR's in the 5 games played.

Team's roster:

1	林俊杰	LIN CHUN-CHIEH	M	LF	1996/08/31	165	60
2	陳譽亞	CHEN, YU-YA	M	CF	1996/05/07	167	58
3	鄧賀元	TENG, HO-YUAN	M	1B	1996/07/03	160	57
4	胡玉龍	HU, YU- LUNG	M	3B	1996/06/13	155	54
5	陳子軒	CHEN, TZU- HSUAN	M	RF	1996/11/01	155	53
6	游政揚	YU, CHENG-YANG	M	P	1996/08/11	160	60
7	何 軍	HO, CHUN	M	2B	1996/05/19	158	54
8	張書豪	CHANG, SHU-HAO	M	C	1996/04/21	160	61
9	王挺亦	WANG, TANG-YI	M	1B	1996/07/20	170	64
10	林晏君	LIN, YEN-CHUN	M	3B	1996/01/26	168	63
11	陳秉吾	CHEN, PING-WU	M	LF	1996/02/25	160	55
12	黃皓偉	HUANG, HAO-WEI	M	P	1996/07/02	174	64
13	葉哲榮	YEH, CHE-JUNG	M	P	1996/01/31	178	60
14	劉劭威	LIU, SHAO-WEI	M	P
15	謝育宏	HSIEN, YU-HUNG	M	RF	1996/02/04	175	70