Pearland West’s Tristan Schwehr, left, celebrates with Isaac Garcia… Through 4 and 2/3 innings, Gottfried held Sweetwater Valley to only one run and three hits as he rallied up seven strikeouts. Pearland won 8-4 and advanced to Wednesday’s national semifinal game. Bonita’s bats did not wake up until the bottom half of the sixth, when a three-run homer made a small dent in the deficit.
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Bonita, California pitcher Antonio Andrade collects himself on the mound after giving up a two-run home run to Pearland, Texas’ Raffi Gross during the third inning of a baseball game at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Sunday, August 23, 2015.
Pearland scored five third-inning runs, four with two outs.
Pearland, Texas manager Andrew Solomon looks on from the third base coaches box during the sixth inning of a baseball game against Bonita at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Sunday, August 23, 2015.
He also scored the team’s first run on a double hit by shortstop Levi Mendez in the third inning.
Sweetwater Valley opened play in the Little League World Series by defeating the team representing Kentucky’s Bowling Green Eastern Little League, the Great Lakes Region champion, 14-2, on Friday in a game called in the top of the fourth inning because of the 10-run rule.
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Sweetwater Valley will play Cranston Western, from Rhode Island, in the losers’ bracket at 5 p.m. Monday.
