The U-18 Women’s National Team (WNT) defeated Chinese Taipei on a walk-off 1-0 to win the 2021 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) U-18 World Championship last weekend in Lima, Peru. The win marks the fourth-straight World Championship Gold Medal from the USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team (JWNT) program, having won the previous three World Championships in 2015, 2017 and 2019. Team USA dominated with an 8-0 record on the way to the gold led by stellar pitching with a 0.46 ERA with 78 K’s.