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Little League World Series

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ScriptOhio;244048; said:
Congratulations Hawaii!!!

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Hawaii captured its first Little League World Series title.



Hawaiian Punch
One swing of the bat made Hawaii's dreams come true. Hawaii capped a furious comeback against Curacao with a game-ending home run in the seventh inning to win the Little League World Series 7-6 on Sunday.
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Another one in 2008:

Hawaii crushes Mexico in LLWS final, wins 4th straight title for U.S.


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Caleb Duhay and his Waipahu teammates secured Hawaii's first LLWS title since 2005.


SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Hawaii's coaches lay sprawled on the field as their happy players trotted around showing off their new championship banner.
Winning the Little League World Series can be exhausting.
Tanner Tokunaga hit two homers, Iolana Akau added a solo blast and Waipahu, Hawaii, took advantage of several miscues by Matamoros, Mexico, in 12-3 victory Sunday that sealed the fourth straight Little League title for the United States.
"I know I'm tired," manager Timo Donahue said. "I'll probably catch up on a lot of sleep the next few days."
His pint-sized players wore out Mexico, too. It was just the second time in series history that a team scored in each inning in the title game, with the 1974 team from Taiwan the only other squad to accomplish the feat.
Two Hawaii runs Sunday scored on passed balls, and another run came home on a bases-loaded walk. Mexico committed three errors.
Still, Mexico's lineup is loaded with dangerous hitters, so the lead wasn't safe until reliever Christian Donahue, the manager's son, got Fernando Villegas to ground out to Tokunaga at shortstop.
Then the celebration started.
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Entire article: ESPN - Hawaii crushes Mexico in LLWS final, wins 4th straight title for U.S. - Sports
 
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I saw almost none of the final game, but I did see Hawaii's comeback in the U.S. final - they scored 6 times in the top of the last inning to win 7-5.

It was only possible because Hawaii is south of Louisiana.
 
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Anyone else watching this? Watching a team from Hamilton Ohio playing a team from Toms River New Jersey and I swear they had an OH-IO chant going. :banger:

Anyone else hear this? I am a little hung over
 
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I missed the first inning, but I did see a successful use of a replay challenge by the Hamilton manager on a badly blown call at first base. The runner was out by half a step but was called safe. The manager calmly came out, asked the umpires to confer to see it they wanted to change the call and if not, he'd use his challenge. In less than a minute, the call was discussed, then reviewed and overturned. No screaming, no dirt-kicking, and no reason to eject a bitching manager.

The manager gets 1 challenge in the game, but if he wins it he retains it. If the game goes extra innings, a challenge is restored. It can't be used for balls/strikes, but it's OK for fair/foul, HR/not, and base path calls.

What a concept.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1753100; said:
Ohio was up 4-0 on Hawaii in the bottom of the 4th with 2 outs on Hawaii and left the inning down 6-4. Hawaii got 6 runs with only 1 hit in the game.
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Yep - a bobbled double play ball could have gotten them out of the inning up 4-1.
 
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Slow season for sports, but I've generally always enjoyed watching this event in August.

Heck of a game between Pennsylvania and South Carolina. SC came back from 6-0 to lead 8-6, but PA comes back with 3 in 6th to win. The Pennsylvania team can rake.
 
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