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Arabian American Little League from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Qualifies For 61st Little League Baseball World Series
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (July 29, 2007) – A team from Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia, earned a berth in the 2007 Little League Baseball World
Series by winning the Transatlantic Region Tournament on Sunday in
Kutno, Poland.
The Arabian American Little League defeated London Area Youth Little
League from London, England, 7-1, in the championship game. Arabian
American Little League finished the five-team tournament with a 6-0
record.
A team from Saudi Arabia has never won the Little League Baseball
World Series. The first year a Saudi Arabian team qualified for the
Little League Baseball World Series was 1983. Arabian American
Little League has represented the Transatlantic Region at the Little
League Baseball World Series 14 times. This year’s team marks the
league’s eighth consecutive World Series appearance and 13th since
1994.
Arabian American Little League joins 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 berths in the Little League Baseball World Series are
expected to be decided on Aug. 9. The winner of the Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA) Region Tournament in Kutno, Poland, will be
determined, while the first team from the United States will qualify
with the conclusion of the Southeast Region Tournament in St.
Petersburg, Fla.
The U.S. region finals, which will be televised live, are: Thursday,
Aug 9 - Southeast (St. Petersburg, Fla., 8 p.m., ESPN); Friday, Aug.
10 - Southwest (Waco, Texas, 8 p.m., ESPN); Saturday; Aug. 11 -
Midwest (Indianapolis, noon, ESPN); Mid-Atlantic (Bristol, Conn., 2
p.m., ESPN); Great Lakes (Indianapolis, 7 p.m., ESPN); West (San
Bernardino, Calif., 9 p.m., ESPN); Sunday, Aug 12 – Northwest (San
Bernardino, Calif., 10 p.m., ESPN2); Monday, Aug. 13 – New England
(Bristol, Conn., 8 p.m., ESPN2). All game times are Eastern U.S.
time.
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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