Wednesday night's victory allows El Segundo to face its counterpart from the Northeast Seattle Little League Thursday in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The game will be televised on ESPN at 4 p.m.
Wednesday night's must-win game for El Segundo to remain in the Little League World Series was a win for the team, leaving the West Region champs with one more game Thursday night to conquer in order to move onto Saturday's U.S. championship game.
El Segundo fended off elimination for the second consecutive game Wednesday with a 5-3 victory over the all-star team from the Nolensville, Tennessee Little League, with Louis Lappe hitting a tie-breaking two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning in the six-inning game. El Segundo had been relegated to the elimination bracket of the double-elimination tournament with a 3-1 loss to the all-star team from the Needville Little League, the Southwest Region champion, on Monday.
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