Little League World Series Scores:- The Mid-Atlantic Regional champions used the same old script -- brilliant pitching from Angelo Navetta, big power from Nick Pucciarelli and consistent hitting up and down the lineup -- in a 10-2 runaway win Friday over Northwest Regional champion Mercer Island from Washington state. It was a scoreless game for two innings, but then SSN put together one of its trademark big innings, although this one started with an error.
Joe Ruggirello reached on an error to start the top of the third and Navetta followed by smoking a ball to right field that was hit so hard, shallow-playing Northwest right-fielder Brandon Lawler threw Navetta out at first. Ruggirello, though, moved to second on the play and scored on James Morisano's RBI single.
Joe Ruggirello reached on an error to start the top of the third and Navetta followed by smoking a ball to right field that was hit so hard, shallow-playing Northwest right-fielder Brandon Lawler threw Navetta out at first. Ruggirello, though, moved to second on the play and scored on James Morisano's RBI single.
Michael Bantle's RBI double to score David Emanuels in the bottom of the fifth kept the 10-run mercy rule from taking effect and Navetta reached the pitch count with one out in the sixth.
"He pitched a great game. He was just nailing the strike zone," said Stenberg. "We pride ourselves on being patient hitters, but, patience works well when you can get ahead in the count. But he got himself in a favorable position, 70, 80 percent of the time it felt like."
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