Jackson drove in four runs and Ethan Van Belle struck out eight as Michigan beat Ohio 5-2 on Sunday in the championship game of the Little League World Series. The second one, he threw me a high fastball and I went up there and got it.”The team from Taylor North Little League delivered the first LLWS title for the state of Michigan since 1959 when Hamtramck National Little League won it all. Little League allowed two squads from each U.S. region to fill out the 16-team field. The team from West Side Little League in Hamilton, Ohio, juiced the bases again in the third with nobody out. Taylor, Mich.'s Jackson Surma (22) hits a double off Hamilton, Ohio's Chance Retherford, driving in two runs, during the first inning of the Little League World Series Championship baseball game in South Williamsport, Pa., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.

Source: thestar August 29, 2021 21:37 UTC