Southern California And Arizona Get The Wins At The Little League West Regional
Its that time of the year again, kids playing the game they love, while their families and friends cheer and watch from the stands. As a group of fourteen young talented children ages 11 and 12 compete to represent their district, city, and state for the Little League World Series.
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Today the journey starts for the Sweetwater Valley Little League, and the other five teams in the West Regional tournament. Who will be looking for their opportunity to represent the West Region at the Little League World Series Tournament, which starts next week in Williamsport, Pennsylvania (August 20-30).
The West Regional Tournament is being held for the 44th time in the beautiful Al Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino, California. The Stadium itself holds up to 8,000 people, but an extra 2,000 people could sit behind the outfield fence to watch the game.
The teams participating in the Little League West Regionals consist of six teams from Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Northern California, Southern California, and Utah.
These six teams are:
Chandler National North Little League – Chandler, Arizona
Waipio Little League – Waipahu, Hawaii
Paseo Verde Little League – Henderson, Nevada
Cambrian Park Little League – San Jose, California
Sweetwater Valley Little League – Bonita, California
Snow Canyon Little League – Santa Clara, Utah
The Western Regional started this morning with Arizona beating the No. California team 1-0, and will continue until next Saturday. With the above six teams participating in a double elimination tournament, giving each team a fair shot to represent the West Region.
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Arizona topped No. Cal with the bat of Ethan Linn (went 2-2), and great pitching from Brock Selvidge, striking out nine of the No. Cal players.
No. Cal on the other hand had great pitching as well with Griffin Allen striking out ten of the Arizona players, but gave up the only run of the game in the fourth inning.
Ethan Linn was the only player in the game with a RBI, as he scored the first, and last run of the entire game as he brought in Christian Reynard from first to home.
Christian Reynard lead off the inning being hit by a pitch, and was followed up with Ethan Linn hitting a triple to right field.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, No. Cal failed to bring in a run, as they had men on second and third with only one out. The Arizona’s starter Brock Selvidge then got himself out of jam striking out the next two batters he faced.
The fourth inning would be the only chance No. Cal had to bring in any run as they’re bats were limited to great pitching.
The second game of the West Regional, got out of hand earlier as So. Cal opened the game with an explosive first inning, going through the whole batting order and bringing in six runs.
Levi Mendez kicked off the explosive offense with a 2-run homer, which was followed up with a solo home run from Walker Lannom, and an inside the ballpark home run from Isaac Artalejo, to take a 6-0 lead.
Hawaii responded by re-taking the lead in the bottom of the first, loading the bases early with no outs. Vincent Ogasawara then doubled to left field to bring in two runs (player left on first and second).
Trey Apana-Purcell then got hit by a pitch to load the bases back up. So. Cal leads 6-2.
Sage-Manuel Koahou then ended up hitting a single to right field for another run, and was immediately followed up with Joshua Reis getting hit by a pitch for two more runs. So. Cal leads 6-4.
Charles Winchester then doubled to center field to tie the game at six, and took the lead with a sacrifice bunt fromVance Oshiro for the second out. Hawaii leads 7-6.
Walker Lannom in the top of the second inning re-took the lead for So. Cal with a 2 out, 2-run homer (Walker’s 2nd homer of the game).
So. Cal then loaded the bases for Isaac Artalejo who doubled to right, to bring in another three runs. So. Cal leads 11-7.
Levi Mendez again went deep with a solo homerun to right field in the third inning to increase the So. Cal lead to 12-7.
In the top of the fourth inning, So. Cal continued to pile on the runs increasing the lead from 12 to 14 with back to back homeruns from Braiz Ramirez and Nicholas Maldonado. So. Cal leads 14-7
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Hawaii finally got back on the board in the bottom of the fourth with a single from Vincent Ogasawara, to bring in Louis Holt (singled to short-stop) from third.
Hunter Sasaki continued the scoring for Hawaii with a single to the short-stop, to bring in Alexander Armenti (reached on error by 1B). So. Cal leads 14-9.
So. Cal leadoff the sixth inning with back to back hits, which lead to two insurance runs, to increase the lead to 16-9, which ended up being the last action of the game.
As Hawaii couldn’t do anything in the bottom of the sixth, but get one player on base from a walk.
With Arizona beating the No. Cal team earlier today, and So. Cal beating Hawaii.
Arizona will play Utah tomorrow at 11:30 AM, and So. Cal will play Nevada tomorrow at 4:30 PM in the winning bracket.
As for No. Cal, and Hawaii. They won’t play until Tuesday.
No. Cal will play the loser of the So. Cal vs. Nevada game at 11 AM. Hawaii will play the Loser of the Arizona vs. Utah game at 4:30 PM.