We interrupt this blog of music, poetry and musings to bring you late-breaking sports news of a Little League nature. Matt's Little League All-star team played in a division final game last night against last year's state-championship team. They weren't expected to win the regional pool, and they did! Now they advance to the next bracket -- further on into the series than any area team in the past four years (our league is only four years young).
Anyway, near the end of this brief TV news clip below, Matt catches the right field fly out to end the game with two guys on base, score 3-2, two outs. They erroneously credit relief pitcher Dylan Brown with catching the final out, but it was our Matt! (He is also the guy earlier in the video, at about :38 seconds, who slides home to try to tie the score and is tagged out by the opposing catcher. What I really love is seeing all the boys hopping into the cheering mix to swarm their teammate who hit the game winning home run. It was very exciting.
Click HERE to watch the news clip.
A funny side story on this 3-game tournament is that our guys were playing teams from a bigger Syracuse city region, from more established leagues, and they felt at times a bit out of their element. They nicknamed themselves the Crown City Woodchucks because they figured that is what the opposing players took them for . . . smaller town woodchucks. They had some good laughs, and before the game yesterday, a woodchuck was seen emerging from the ground nearby their dugout. One of them said, "it's a SIGN." Ha ha! The woodchuck RISES! And these young woodchucks certainly rose to the occasion.
5 comments:
Congratulations to Matt!
Very cool!
Thanks Chris and Jean! The exciting update tonight is that we traveled to Oswego for the next bracket, and the guys came from behind 6-0 in the 2nd inning to defeat Liverpool 7-6 in extra innings. Matt came in as relief pitcher with the winning run on base for the opposition, and struck out the final two batters to get the win. They advance (back to Oswego again tomorrow) to play North Syracuse. Each game is win and advance or lose and done . . .
Thursday night update: CCLL defeated N. Syracuse 10-2 in the semi-final game and now advances to the District 8 Championship game on Saturday. What a ride!
The grand run came to an end on Saturday, 7/16, with a mercy rule 10-0 loss to Fayetteville-Manlius (a team that went on to beat their next two opponents 23-3 and a mercy rule win... and they are still rolling!) Very exciting season - and perhaps another tournament or two before fall ball begins.
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