Naamans Little League exploded for 11 runs in the 5th inning to defeat Berlin, Maryland 12-4 to stay alive in the Little League Mid-Atlantic Regional.<\/p>\n
James Grugan gave the Delaware champions a 1-0 lead in the 4th inning with a 2-out RBI single to center field scoring Declan Soares.<\/p>\n
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BRISTOL Ct.- Delaware defeated Berlin 12-4 in an elimination game of the Little League Mid-Atlantic regional tournament.<\/p>\n
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(VIDEO | Highlights of Naamans’ victory)<\/p>\n
Maryland responded with a four-run 5th inning, but then Delaware’s offense exploded on both sides of a rain delay.<\/p>\n
After an opening strikeout, the next six batters all reached base, including three straight bases loaded walks to Will Santora, Joey DeCaro, and Robert Heisler to tie the game.<\/p>\n
After a fielder’s choice, Matthew Hauber drew another bases-loaded walk to put Naamans up 5-4.<\/p>\n
Naamans then connected with six-straight singles to blow the game open.<\/p>\n
James Grugan’s RBI single was followed by a 2-run version from Kole Dzwilewski. Taj Amobi then had his own RBI single, while Charles Puit singled to load the bases.<\/p>\n
Paul DeDonato’s two-run single was backed up by another RBI single from Brady Winkelspecht to finish off the 11-run inning, as 16 batters came to the plate.<\/p>\n
Jason Pontari picked up the win on the mound, as he had four scoreless innings surrounding the four-run Berlin 4th, he collected seven strikeouts in 5 1\/3 innings before hitting the 85-pitch limit.<\/p>\n
Naamans advances to the second semifinal game, where they will face the loser of Tuesday’s Washington, D.C. vs. West Chester, Pennsylvania game on Thursday at 3 p.m. (ESPN).<\/p>\n
The winner of that game will face the DC\/Pennsylvania winner for the right to go to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania has won the last four Mid-Atlantic Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naamans Little League exploded for 11 runs in the 5th inning to defeat Berlin, Maryland 12-4 to stay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6659,6674,6672,6677,6667,18,29510,52247,52246,52248,6662,6665,6664,25955,6661,25956,2852,6679],"class_list":["post-70194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-berlin","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-delaware","tag-little-league-baseball","tag-little-league-world-series","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-maryland","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}