Kentucky avoids elimination
Eli Burwash scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning then earned the save pitching as Bowling Green, Kentucky, avoided elimination Monday at the Little League World Series by beating Taylors, South Carolina, 4-3.
Bowling Green will play Tuesday night against the winner of Monday night’s game between Cranston, Rhode Island and Bonita, California.
Burwash struck out two batters and allowed only a walk during the sixth inning to preserve the win. He hit a leadoff double in the bottom of the fifth inning and scored the go-ahead run on Maddox Burr’s infield single with two outs. Burwash also hit a leadoff home run in the first inning as Bowling Green built a 3-0 lead.
Taylors is the first South Carolina team to win a game at the series. Braden Golinski led the team with a two-run home run.
Bowling Green has won four straight elimination games since regionals.
Mexico 14, Australia 3, 4 inn.: Mexico scored nine runs in the first inning to eliminate Australia from the Little League World Series, winning 14-3 in four innings.
Gerardo Lujano and Andres Villa each hit 2-run doubles in the first inning. Damian Garcia, Jorge Armenta and Alberto Bustos added home runs for Mexicali, which advances to play Tuesday vs. the winner of Monday’s game between Taiwan and Uganda.
Armenta finished 3-for-3 with 4 RBI. Garcia was 2-for-2. Derik Lopez and Gerardo Lujano scored twice each. Mexicali scored at least once in each inning to end the game via the 10-run mercy rule.
Dominican Republic 7, Portland, Ore., 3: Emmanuel Rodriguez hit two home runs to lead the Dominican Republic to a 7-3 win over Portland, Oregon, in a Little League World Series consolation game.
Both teams both were eliminated from the Series on Saturday, but the Dominican Republic ended its all-star season by winning a game in which it never trailed.
Rodriguez led off the first inning with a home run then hit another in the fifth inning to make it 7-3.
He went 4-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs. Jose Marte earned the win, striking out six batters in 3 2/3 innings.
Oregon tied the game in the second inning on an RBI double by Samuel Stuhr, but the Dominican Republic scored four runs in the bottom of the inning.