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Lubbock Western Little League from Texas Wins Southwest Region, Advances to 2007 Little League Baseball World Series
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (Aug. 10, 2007) – Texas West representative
Lubbock Western Little League rode the one-hit, 15-strikeout
performance of Garrett Williams to a 6-0 win over Noon Optimist
Little League from Roswell, N.M., in the Southwest Region
championship game played Friday night at Marvin Norcross Stadium in
Waco, Texas.
Through two innings, Lubbock Western Little League was locked in a
pitcher’s duel with Noon Optimist Little League’s Austin Rader.
Rader pitched a complete game, allowing six hits and striking out
14, but a four-run third inning proved to be too much to overcome.
Bryndan Arredondo’s two-run home run and a two-run double by
Williams highlighted the fourth-inning rally that proved to be the
difference in the game. In his compete-game effort, Williams threw
61 of his 81 pitches for strikes.
Lubbock Western Little League finished the eight-team tournament
with a 5-0 record, while Noon Optimist Little League was 4-1 in
regional play.
A team from Lubbock, Texas, has never played in the Little League
Baseball World Series. Texas has been represented 15 times in the
World Series, placing second on five occasions and winning one World
Series championship. National Little League from Houston defeated
Bridgeport, Conn., 2-1, to win the 1950 Little League Baseball World
Series. The most recent runner-up finish was in 2000 when a team
from Bellaire lost to Kitasuna Little League from Tokyo, Japan, 2-1.
Lubbock Western Little League joins Warner Robins American Little
League from Warner Robins, Ga.; 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 remaining U.S. region finals, which will be televised live on
ESPN or ESPN2, are: 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.
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