Warner Robins Little League from Georgia Wins Southeast Region, Advances to 2007 Little League Baseball World Series
PrintWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (Aug. 9, 2007) – Kendall Scott was 3-for-3 with
two home runs and earned the mound win in relief for Warner Robins
(Ga.) American Little League, which advanced to the 2007 Little
League Baseball World Series on Thursday with a 10-9 win in the
Southeast Region Championship game at Arnold S. White, Sr. Stadium
in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Warner Robins American Little League built an early 7-1 lead, but
had to rally from a 9-8 deficit to hold off Westside Little League
from Mobile, Ala. Two unearned runs in the top of the fifth inning
provided the winning margin.
After falling behind, Westside Little League answered with two
four-run innings to take the lead. Two solo home runs by Brett
Glover and a three-run home run by Mason McCullough highlighted the
Westside Little League rally.
Warner Robins American Little League finished the eight-team
tournament with a 5-0 record, including two one-run wins over
Westside Little League.
National Little League from East Marietta and Columbus Northern
Little League are the only other teams from Georgia to reach the
Little League Baseball World Series. In 1983, National Little League
defeated Liquito Hernandez Little League from the Dominican
Republic, 3-1, in the world championship game. Last year, Columbus
Northern defeated Kawaguchi Little League from Kawaguchi City,
Japan, 2-1, to win the world championship.
Warner Robins (Ga.) American Little League joins Windmills Apeldoorn
Little League from the Netherlands; Arabian American Little League
from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Pabao Little League of Willemstad,
Curacao; Tokyo Kitasuna Little League of Tokyo, Japan; Seguro Social
Little League of Mexicali, Mexico; Li-Shing Little League of
Taichung, Chinese Taipei; and La Victoria Little League of
Maracaibo, Venezuela, as participants in the 2007 Little League
Baseball World Series.
The World Series championship game can be seen live on ABC
television at 3:30 p.m., on Sunday, Aug. 26. ABC also will televise
the International championship game on Saturday, Aug. 25 at 12:30
p.m., followed by the United States championship at 3:30 p.m.
The 2007 World Series will be the first operated under the new
eight-year television contract agreement with ESPN/ABC. Five games
will be televised on ABC. This will be the second year that all of
the World Series games will be televised in high definition. For the
sixth year since the tournament expanded from eight to 16 teams in
2001, every team will have games on national television.
All 32 games of the World Series are expected to be televised again
this year. Sixteen World Series games will be televised on ESPN and
11 will be televised on ESPN2.
In addition, the ESPN family of networks will carry all eight of the
U.S. Regional Championship finals in the Little League Baseball
division. The U.S. regional finals have been televised by ESPN and
ESPN2 every year since 1997.
The next berth in the Little League Baseball World Series will be
decided on Friday when the Southwest Region Tournament in Waco,
Texas., is due to end. The game will be televised live on ESPN
beginning at 8 p.m.
The remaining U.S. region finals, which will be televised live on
ESPN or ESPN2, are: Southwest (Waco, Texas, Friday, 8 p.m., ESPN);
Midwest (Indianapolis, Saturday, noon, ESPN); Mid-Atlantic (Bristol,
Conn., Saturday, 2 p.m., ESPN); Great Lakes (Indianapolis, Saturday,
7 p.m., ESPN); West (San Bernardino, Calif., Saturday, 9 p.m.,
ESPN); Northwest (San Bernardino, Calif., Sunday, 10 p.m., ESPN2)
and New England (Bristol, Conn., Monday, 8 p.m., ESPN2);. All game
times are Eastern U.S. time. The final International Region
representative will be decided on Saturday when the Canada Region
Tournament in Regina, Saskatchewan, is scheduled to end
Little League Baseball and Softball is the largest organized youth
sports program in the world, with 2.7 million participants in all 50
states and more than 75 other countries.
