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El Segundo All-Stars Advance In Little League World Series
The all-star baseball team from El Segundo awaits its next opponent in the Little World Series today after winning 4-3 on Thursday.
LOS ANGELES -- The all-star baseball team from El Segundo is awaiting its next opponent in the Little World Series today after defeating the Great Lakes all-star team, 4-3, in a rain-shortened four-inning game.
El Segundo advances to the next round of the Little League World Series and will play the winner of today's game between the Southwest all stars and the Midwest all stars.
El Segundo beat the all star team from New Albany, Ohio when the game was called because of inclement weather and curfew regulations on Thursday.
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El Segundo is the second team from Los Angeles County to advance to the event in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania since 1995. The teams qualified for the World Series by defeating the all-star team from the San Ramon-based Bollinger Canyon Little League, 3-1, in the championship game of the West Region Tournament on Aug. 11 at Al Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino.
El Segundo is 14-1 in four tournaments this summer. It lost to the all-star team from the Sherman Oaks Little League, 4-3, in the opening game of the championship series of the Southern California State Tournament July 31, then won the rematch, 3-2, later that day.
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El Segundo is the first Los Angeles County team to win the West Region Tournament since 1994, when the all-star team from the Northridge Little League won and went on to win the U.S. championship with a team including future USC and NFL quarterback Matt Cassel.
One other team from Los Angeles County has qualified for the Little League World Series over that span. The all-star team from the Torrance Little League qualified for the Little League World Series in 2021 when the series was limited to U.S. teams because of the coronavirus and each of the top two teams from the eight U.S. regions advanced to the World Series instead of just the
champion.
Los Angeles County teams have won the Little League World Series three times. The all-star team from the Granada Hills National Little League won in 1963 and teams from the Long Beach Little League won in 1992 and 1993.
-- City News Service
