The all-star team from El Segundo advanced to Saturday's U.S. championship game of the Little League World Series with a 2-1 victory over its counterpart from the Northeast Seattle Little League tonight in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Declan McRoberts limited Northeast Seattle to one run over the first four innings and singled in El Segundo's first run, and Brody Brooks pitched two hitless innings for the save as El Segundo fended off elimination for the third game in three days. Northeast Seattle had the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the sixth and final inning after Owen Luke reached first on a dropped third strike that was ruled a wild pitch.
El Segundo will face the all-star team from the Needville Little League, the Southwest Region champion, in the U.S. championship. McRoberts singled in Jaxon Kalish, who singled, with two outs in the top of the first at Howard J. Lamade Stadium. El Segundo combined Quinn Boehle's single, a passed ball, wild pitch and Finley Green's one-out single for a run in the second. Northeast Seattle scored its lone run in the fourth.
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