Whalley Little League Defends Canada Region Championship, Advances to 2006 Little League Baseball World Series
PrintWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (Aug. 12, 2006) – Whalley Little League from
Surrey, B.C., repeated as Canada Region Champion on Saturday in
Vancouver, B.C., and became the 10th team to earn a berth in the
2006 Little League Baseball World Series.
Whalley Little League finished the six-team tournament with a 7-0
record, and defended its Canada Region title, topping East Nepean
Little League from Ottawa, Ontario, 10-0.
Teams representing Canada have participated in 49 Little League
Baseball World Series since 1952, but have never won the
championship. The country’s only appearance in the World Series
championship game came in 1965 when Windsor Locks, Conn., defeated a
team from Stoney Creek, Ontario, 3-1.
Whalley Little League, which has represented Canada at the Little
League Baseball World Series on four occasions (1973, ’78, ’97 and
2005), joins South Lake Charles Little League of Lake Charles, La.;
Columbus Northern Little League of Columbus, Ga.; Arabian American
Little League of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Brateevo Little League of
Moscow, Russia; Cardenales Little League of Barquisimeto, Lara,
Venezuela; Pabao Little League of Willemstad, Curacao; Matamoros
Little League of Taumalipas, Mexico; Kawaguchi City Little League of
Kawaguchi City, Japan; and Saipan Little League from Saipan,
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), as participants in
the 2006 Little League Baseball World Series.
The Little League Baseball World Series for 11-12-year-olds will be
played in Williamsport, Aug. 18-27. Sixteen teams from around the
world will take part.
ABC will televise the Little League Baseball World Series U.S.
championship game on Aug. 26, at 3:30 p.m. The world championship
game of the Little League Baseball World Series can be seen live on
ABC at 3:30 p.m., on Aug. 27. Twenty-seven other World Series games
will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2 for a total of 29 games on
national television. Eleven World Series games also will be
televised on ESPN Deportes. For the second straight year, all 32
games of the Little League Baseball World Series tournament will be
on television.
The next berths in the 60th Little League Baseball World Series will
be decided on Saturday when the Midwest Region and West Region
Tournaments are scheduled to end.
The remaining U.S. region finals, which will be televised live on
ESPN or ESPN2, are: Midwest (Indianapolis, Saturday, 7 p.m., ESPN);
West (San Bernardino, Calif., Saturday, 9 p.m., ESPN); New England
(Bristol, Conn., Sunday, 1 p.m., ESPN); Great Lakes (Indianapolis,
Sunday, 3 p.m., ESPN); Northwest (San Bernardino, Calif., Sunday, 10
p.m., ESPN2) and Mid-Atlantic (Bristol, Conn., Monday, 8 p.m.,
ESPN2);. All game times are Eastern U.S. time.
For more information on the 2006 Little League Baseball World Series
log on to: www.littleleagueworldseriesonline.org
