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    Well, I must have gotten some bad info, because Middleboro, Ma. did in 
    fact play yesterday, beating Oakland, Md. 18-6!  In other Eastern
    Regional action:
    
    	Bangor, Me.  12			Salem, N.H.  3
        Milburn-Short Hills, N.J.  6    Brattleboro, Vt.  3
        Orchard Park, N.Y.  3		Bear, Del.  1
    
    Like I said previously, Middleboro, Ma. is a powerhouse.
    
    					Steve

    
    North Scottsdale LL (where I live) is on to San Bernadino and the
    Western US Finals.  Don't know anyone on the team, don't know that I've
    ever seen anyone on the team, so in the finest JoJ tradition:
    
    Congrats!
    
    brews

    where is middleboro ?  North or South of Boston?  I'm thinking
    somewhere south on way to cape

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>    where is middleboro ?  North or South of Boston?  I'm thinking
>    somewhere south on way to cape

  From Metro West, take 495 south. It's about half way between Route 24
and the Bourn Bridge (Cape Cod). Route 495 may be called state route 25
at that point.

  From Plymouth take 44 west about 10 miles.

  George

    Yesterday's East Regional action:
    
    Canal, Del.   9	East Greenwich, R.I.  6
    	(East Greenwich eliminated)
    Franklin, Pa. 14	Salem, N.H.  3
    	(Salem eliminated)
    Trumbull, Ct. 10	Brattleboro, Vt.  1
    	(Brattleboro eliminated)

    Yesterday's East Regional action:
    
    	New Jersey  6	Mass.  5
    	Deleware   10	Maine  4
    
    That's the first loss for Mass.  They had won on Friday 12-0.  One of
    the twins pitched a no-hitter and also helped himself by hitting two 
    homers.  I would imagine they'll be playing again tomorrow.
    
    					Steve

    Delaware plays Maryland (I think) from the loser's bracket today.
    The winner plays Middleboro tomorrow, and the winner of that must
    beat New Jersey twice to win the title.
    
    NAZZ

    Oakland, Md. beat Bear, Del., 8-4 yesterday and will play Middleboro
    today.  The winner will then play Millburn-Short Hills, N.J. who beat
    Middleboro on Sunday 6-5.
    
    					Steve

    I remember short hills from my jersey days; I think they had a tennis
    tournement in the days when payment was all qt;
    
    I think that's a fairly well-to-do section; lets see if those blue
    collar middleboro kids can out hustle 'em.
    
    Short Hills was on the train line I took which had the bar car after
    9pm

    Middleboro won yesterday 9-4 over Oakland, Md.  They now must beat
    Millburn-Short Hills, N.J. today and tomorrow to win the East
    Regionals and advance to the Little League World Series next week.
    
    Toby Upton hit a grand slam in the first inning for Oakland. 
    Unfortunatley for them, it was their last hit.  Brandon Soule hit a two
    run blast in the third to key a four run rally.  Kevin Brower (one of
    the twin studs) had a two-out run scoring double in the fourth and a
    two-run homer in the sixth.
    
    I noticed a different name of a pitcher who got the win in relief, Joe
    Moles.  This would mean that the twin brothers that normally alternate
    between pitching and short will probably pitch today and tomorrow.  The
    one that started yesterday wouldn't be able to pitch today, but if he
    pitched three innings or less yesterday, can pitch tomorrow (only up to 
    6 innings / week though).
    
    					Steve

    So who won the Eastern Regional?
    
    Redmen Phil
    

	I heard last night that the MA team beat the NJ team yesterday.
	Since MA is coming out of the looser's bracket the two teams
	will square off today to decide the Eastern Champ


	billl

    
    
       Yup they won 8-4. 1 of the twins had a dinger. They were down 4-1 at
    one point.
    
    
    
    Chap

    Actually Chap, one of the twins (Kevin Brower -  remember that name)
    had two dingers.  They're supposed to play today at 2:00, but I'd
    imagine it's raining like hell in Connecticut too, so they'll most
    likely play tomorrow.
    
    					Steve

>    imagine it's raining like hell in Connecticut too, so they'll most
>    likely play tomorrow.
    
Sun's trying awfully hard to come out, not raining now.

I would think that field condition will be the deciding factor at this point...


'Saw

    
    
    They played... and won...

    7-1.  On to Williamsport to face the South on Monday.  I've been to the
    World Series twice as a spectator.  This, my friends, is what baseball
    is really all about.  The best Little Leaguers in the world playing
    baseball all day, every day.  It's quite a take.
    
    					Steve

    The  East (Middleboro) and South (Virginia) are tied up 1-1 in the 5th
    inning.  Kevin Brower's still pitching.
    
    					Steve

Big article in yesterday's Hartford Courant about the Trumbull champs
5 years later.  It was interesting.  In the intervening years, the two
smallest kids on the team put on 85 and 90 pounds respectively, and have
gotten quite tall.

The only one who'll probably be a professional athlete is Chris Drury, the
pitcher, who's been drafted by the Quebec Nordiques.

Some of the others don't play baseball any more, some do.   


It was a great article......

    SI had an article too I think...
    

    Middleboro lost by a run in extra innings.

    Middleboro lost to Calif. yesterday, 6-4.  They play a team from
    Minnesota today, and although their chances of advancing are very
    remote, it is still possible.
    
    A kid from Venezuela struck out the first 12 Taiwanese batters he faced
    yesterday, and ended up with 15 strikeouts (out of a possible 18 outs)!
    Considering he wasn't exactly facing chopped liver, this is an amazing
    feat.
    
    					Steve

The team from Massachusetts was beating the team from Minnesota 5-2 after
three full innings.

It was 2-0, but Mass scored a run in the top of the 3rd, loaded the bases
and then this big tall lanky kid hit a grand slam.

We were watching in this pizza place and when the kid hit the slam a bunch
of folks jumped up from their seats!  Who says little league ain't fun.


The catcher for the Minnesota team is a girl....


'Saw

    Middleboro won 11-5, which eliminated Minnesota.  To advance to the
    American Final, Virginia must beat California and score at least six
    runs doing it.  Here's how the standings wil look if Virginia wins:
    
    	Virginia 	3-0
    	Middleboro	1-2
    	Minnesota	1-2
    	California	1-2
    
    First tiebreaker is head to head - each team is 1-1 against the other
    two.  Second tiebreaker is fewest runs allowed.  That's why Minnesota
    is already out.  They allowed 17, and Middleboro has allowed 13. 
    California has allowed 8 runs in their first two games, so that's why
    Virginia needs to score at least 6.
    
    NAZZ
    

    I've seen a couple of features (SI, SportsCenter...) about the 5th
    anniversary of the Trumbull CT. Team.  They talk about Drury being
    drafted, one kid living in Aussieland, and others.  What happened to
    Matt the Moocher?  

>    Matt the Moocher?  


Matt hasn't played much ball in High School.  Instead, he's an Academic
Whiz Kid.  His GPA was like 4.05 and he's gathered up all these academic
honors...

I didn't save the paper, so I can't give you specifics....


'Saw

    
    	Drury doesn't play baseball anymore, he plays hockey. He got
    drafted as a hockey player. I believe he will be attending BU
    this fall on a hockey scholorship.
    
    Ron

    Yup... gave up baseball after he broke his wrist lasted year.
    

    Venezuela won the Little League World Series on Saturday, beating
    Northbridge, Ca. 4-3.  The kid that pitched for Venezuela was throwing
    77 mph from 46 feet away.  A two hour rain delay seemed to have an
    effect on both pitchers, but there's nothing you can do about it.
    
    The town of Middleboro, Ma. had a parade and celebration for their
    team on Sunday.
    
    					Steve
                                                         

Slight correction to the preceding:  the US rep was from Northridge (no 'b'),
which (among other things) was the epicenter of the recent Los Angeles
earthquake.  I understand that a couple of the kids on the team still
are not back into their homes.  Making it to the final is quite an
accomplishment.

Good to see a Latin American rep interrupt the Far East's dominance (amazing
what happens when you enforce the rules!).

Wish I could have seen it.

Steve

    
       In the meantime the kids from Middleboro met with Mass.
      Governor Weld in a little statehouse ceremony. Seems the
      state is developing quite an affinity for also-rans like
      the kids from Middleboro and Nancy Kerrigan. Weld should
      have snubbed the little brats and told them that at a time
      when New England baseball fans were depressed because of
      the strike, they could have provided a little light but in-
      stead they let themselves and a whole six state region down.
      You don't deserve a ceremony. Beat it.
    
      BTW - I tuned in to watch the LLWS final but because of the rain
            delay I only managed to catch a little bit of the Trumbull
            replay. Pretty tacky of the fans to be chanting "USA! USA!"
            Is that what Little League is all about? Us and them? Later
            on I asked someone who won the 1994 game and the reply was, 
           "We lost." We, of course, being the kids from Northridge, Ca.
            "We." Us and them.

	Whatsa matta, Tommy?  Got no one to trade shots with this week?

	Now you go picking on the po' kids from Middleboro.


	btw, any good jazz concert this weekend?



	billl

    Saw a great double bill at Boarding House Park in Lowell Saturday
    night - Bill Morrissey and Patty Larkin.
    
    NAZZ

> 2) Ever drive in Mass.?  The attitude of the drivers mirrors the attitude
> of the people.

And it looks like Groaner has adopted this with a vengeance.

The Crazy Met

    
    	Oh give it a rest Ice.  I mailed that thing at least a week
    	ago....
    
    Claybone

>
>Failure to hand over the crown will result in a greater frequency of
>note entry!
>

And if they're wasting space like this one, it'll either result in deletion
or me shutting down the conference.


Or don't you listen?

    
     I haven't seen the Taiwan team play yet. Do our boys from Spring Texas
     have a chance? Anybody know the pitching matchup? How many times will
     they show Justin Domborski's (sp?) dad tomorrow????????
    
     mike

>     they show Justin Domborski's (sp?) dad tomorrow????????
    
Is this a case of "Bubby's Mom" or does the guy have like massive cancer
with tubes and shit hanging out of him and they're playing the human interest
story?

    Mike, I've been told that Taiwan is heavily favored.  I'm not that
    familiar with the Texas team, so I don't know if they have their #1
    pitcher lined up for tomorrow or not.  I would imagine they do.
    
    That little 2nd baseman for Texas made one helluva play yesterday in
    about the 5th inning or so, on a play up the middle.  He and the
    shortstop look very strong in the field.
    
    Hopefully, we'll see a good game anyway.
    
    					Steve

    
     Same idea as the Bubster, Saw. The hook being that the Dad also played
     in the Little league World Series. They're believed to be the only
     father and son team to pull off the feat........
    
     mike

Oh.

Well, better than than tubes and shit  86)