Team Taiwan on Saturday lost 2-1 to Ohio Valley in the Cal Ripken Major/70 World Series world championship game, finishing second in the tournament in Branson, Missouri.
In the neck-and-neck game, Taiwan scored first in the top of the fourth inning with Tsao Ge-an’s RBI-single to center field
The US team representing Southeastern Lexington quickly overcame the deficit with Eli Hammons’ two-run RBI double in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Photo: courtesy of the Taiwan Babe Ruth League via CNA
Taiwan attempted to launch a late comeback in the sixth inning, but were unable to advance despite their batter reaching first base with only one out.
The team is represented by Yilan County’s Perng-Lai Elementary School.
The Cal Ripken Major/70 World Series is an extension of the Babe Ruth League, which brings together players aged 12 or younger from around the world.
This year’s tournament featured 34 teams, including 10 from outside the US: Taiwan, Australia, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico and South Korea.
Taiwan advanced to Saturday’s championship game after beating Mexico, the Caribbean, Australia, South Korea and Japan.
Inter’s defense of their Italian Serie A title was hit with a setback on Sunday as they lost 1-0 at home to AS Roma, while Scott McTominay netted a brace as SSC Napoli beat Torino 2-0 to go top of the table. No fixtures were played on Friday or Saturday because of the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome, meaning the full round of Serie A matches took place on Sunday and yesterday. Matias Soule’s first-half strike for Roma knocked Inter off top spot earlier in the day before new Napoli opened up a three-point buffer with victory in Sunday’s
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa yesterday set a women’s only world record of 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds as she won the London Marathon, while Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe put a star-studded men’s field to the sword. For 28-year-old Assefa it was ample compensation for finishing runner-up in London and the Paris Olympics last year — especially as bitter Dutch rival, the Ethiopia-born Sifan Hassan, finished third. Assefa dropped Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei as the race, played out in blazing sunshine and with thousands lining the route, entered its business end. She came home almost three minutes clear of the Kenyan. Hassan, who beat her in
FOCUS: ‘We came out here with a goal in mind ... to keep our foot on their throat and on their neck, and continue to play 48 minutes of basketball,’ Donovan Mitchell said The Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday thrashed the Miami Heat to cruise into the next round of the NBA playoffs as the Golden State Warriors battled past the Houston Rockets 109-106 to move to the brink of a series victory. After pounding Miami 124-87 in game three on Saturday, No.1 Eastern Conference seeds Cleveland once again piled on the misery for their outclassed opponents with a crushing 138-83 victory to complete a 4-0 series win. The 55-point drubbing was the largest series-clinching victory in NBA playoff history and sets up a series against either the Indiana Pacers or Milwaukee Bucks in
Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds said it felt like an “impossible dream” when fellow Hollywood A-lister Rob McElhenney first floated the idea of buying soccer club Wrexham, along with a pitch for a documentary. The ultimate goal was reaching the Premier League. Four years after they purchased the north Wales outfit, Wrexham are one league away from achieving their lofty goal after a 3-0 win over Charlton Athletic on Saturday saw them promoted for a record third consecutive time. “We were standing there doing a press conference four years ago, and said our goal is to make it to the Premier League, and
RSS