ESPN announced Monday that the network will exclusively present 81 Little League Softball Region Tournament games this summer.
ESPN announced Monday that the network will exclusively present 81 Little League Softball Region Tournament games this summer with 65 games available on ESPN+, 12 on ESPN and two on ESPN2.
, the final two days of the Regionals - featuring semifinal action and all championship matchups - will air live on ESPN and ESPN2. From Regionals through the World Series, 36 Little League Softball games will be presented across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC - the most in event history," a press release from ESPN stated.
A new feature being introduced this year, which is familiar to fans who view the NCAA Softball Regionals, ESPN will airThe show will air on ESPN+ on July 19 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and again on July 20 during the same times. ESPN set a new viewership record with an average of 1.44 million viewers and a peak viewership of 2.98 million. The amount represented a 139 percent increase versus the 2024 championship game.
The network also saw a 66 percent increase year-over-year across all games with an average viewership of 347,000. The Little League games are slated to begin on Friday, July 17 and continue until July 23 with the regional winners earning a trip to the Little League Softball World Series held in Greenville, North Carolina.
The Little League Softball World Series will feature eight teams from the United States, representing the Region Tournament winners, as well as a host team from North Carolina. Four international teams representing Asia-Pacific, Canada, Europe-Africa and Latin America will participate as well. International regionals are nearly complete with Japan, Italy and Puerto Rico qualifying so far. Thomas Carey was born and raised in Delaware and is a graduate of both the University of Delaware and Wilmington University.
He has spent his career as a legal writer. He played competitive modified softball for ten years and has been an assistant coach for girls fastpitch since 2017. For the past several years, he served as a recruiting coordinator at the 18-and-under travel ball level.
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