Delaware champs fall to Maryland team in bid to make championship game
Delaware’s Little League baseball champs’ bid for a World Series berth ended Aug. 7.
Middletown-Odessa Townsend fell 8-4 to the Maryland champs in the Mid-Atlantic Regionals at the A. Bartlett Giamatti Little League Leadership Training Center in Bristol, Connecticut.
MOT was hoping to join Naamans in 2003 and Newark National in 2013 as Delaware’s only teams to make the trip to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the Little League World Series.
Down 2-0 in their nationally televised bout with Montgomery County, MOT got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third inning when Ryan Mazurak, who’d walked and been sacrificed to second by Miles Boggus, scored on a passed ball. Back-to-back singles by Trevor Abbott and Maddox Day allowed MOT to tie it.
A walk and error put MOT runners on base in the fourth inning. Mazurak singled in S.J. Foster with the go-ahead run and Blake Bransfield scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-2.
Montgomery County regained the lead 8-4 with six runs in the top of the fifth.
MOT couldn’t reprise its remarkable rally after it opened the tournament Aug. 3 beating Capitol Hill League of Washington, D.C., 8-7 after scoring seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. The team then lost 7-3 to Pennsylvania champion Glenmoore Eagle 7-3 on Aug. 5.
That set the stage for the Aug. 7 elimination game with the Maryland champ, which now advances to play Glenmoore Eagle in the championship game at 3 p.m. Aug. 8 on ESPN.
MOT won the District 1 (central Delaware) title and then beat Lewes 3-2, Brandywine 5-4 and Brandywine again 7-3 to secure the state championship and regional berth. It was MOT’s third-straight state title and the organization’s eighth since state championship competition debuted in 1957.
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This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: MOT's Little League World Series bid falls short in regionals
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