The Nationals and Phillies will play in Williamsport, Pa., next weekend in the Little League Classic…and they’ll be joined by a team from the Phils’ neck of the woods, and not the Nats’, representing the Mid-Atlantic Region in the actual Little League World Series.
That’s because the Media Little League of Media, Pa., a southwestern suburb of Philly, walked off the Northwest Washington Little League in Friday’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Final in Bristol, Conn., winning a 2-0 game in seven innings…that saw them get just one hit?
Indeed, it was a pitchers’ duel that was scoreless headed into extras, and Media, which had beaten DC 16-3 earlier this week in the first semifinal of the four-team, modified double-elimination tournament, was hitless through 6 2/3 innings.
However, on the final pitch of the game, Trevor Skowronek blasted a two-run shot over the right-center field wall, his second home run of the regional tournament and the only hit Media got and needed on Friday.
Northwest Washington Little League defeated a team from Middletown, Delaware on Thursday to advance back to the winner-take-all final, but they were unable to make it to Williamsport.
The local area had two chances in the Mid-Atlantic and three overall, but unfortunately, the DMV was completely shut out. The Maryland state champions, the Montgomery County Little League based in Germantown (about 30 miles northwest of the District’s limits), were also in the Mid-Atlantic tourney, but went 0-2, losing 6-2 to Media in their first game and then 12-6 to Delaware in the first elimination game.
Virginia is in Little League’s Southeast region with eight states, but their rep, the Vienna Little League from Fairfax County, finished fourth in that double-elimination group, losing to eventual champion Tennessee in the elimination bracket semifinals.
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