{"id":7404,"date":"2013-08-10T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:53:44","slug":"virginia-little-league-loses-in-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7404","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Little League loses in Regional Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7414\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1010276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7414\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7414\" alt=\"P1010276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1010276-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The LLWS slogan on one of the fields in Williamsport. Photo my own circa Oct 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Virginia State champ Tuckahoe American Little League from Henrico (West Richmond) made it to the Southeast regional final before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechanger.io\/game-51cb19e5907bee4771c16433\/recap-story\">losing to Tennessee 5-3<\/a> in the championship game on ESPN last night 8\/9\/13. \u00a0 A disappointing loss for Virginia, who had beaten the same team in pool play earlier in the regional.\u00a0\u00a0 Tennessee will now represent the region in the 2013 Little League World Series (LLWS) in Williamsport, PA.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve never seen the facilities in Williamsport, they are fantastic and a worthy place to watch a baseball game, youngsters or not.<\/p>\n<p>Tuckahoe had <a href=\"http:\/\/leagueathletics.com\/Brackets.asp?print=yes&amp;division=18610&amp;MySeason=9527&amp;org=lynchburglittleleague.com\">cruised through the Virginia State tournament<\/a>, beating West Springfield in the final and outscoring opponents 35-3 along the way.\u00a0\u00a0 They also cruised relatively unscathed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleleague.org\/worldseries\/series\/llbb\/qualify\/southeast.htm\">regional championship<\/a> before Tennessee got their revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia has not placed a team in the LLWS 1994, when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1994_Little_League_World_Series\">South Central Springfield<\/a> made it to Williamsport and lost in the US final.<\/p>\n<p>Tuckahoe is quite a Virginia Little League powerhouse; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_League_World_Series_(Southeast_Region)\">4 state championships since 2001<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Region_(Little_League_World_Series)\">3 time regional champion<\/a>\/Little League World Series participant.<\/p>\n<p>My own quasi-personal connection\/interest to Little League right now stems from my 12-year old alumni year in 1983, when my home Vienna Little League all-star team handily won the state and then lost in the regional final to eventual LLWS champs Marietta, Georgia. \u00a0Our home-team lost on an error in the bottom of the 6th, letting in two runs to turn a 3-2 lead into a 4-3 loss.\u00a0 Vienna has made one LLWS appearance back in the early 70s but is still a great program and I hope one day my own child can play in the system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia State champ Tuckahoe American Little League from Henrico (West Richmond) made it to the Southeast regional final before losing to Tennessee 5-3 in the championship game on ESPN last night 8\/9\/13. \u00a0 A disappointing loss for Virginia, who had beaten the same team in pool play earlier in the regional.\u00a0\u00a0 Tennessee will now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2411],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-baseball","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7415,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}