LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES: Southeast 12, West 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
What went down: Sweetwater Valley is out of the Little League World Series after a 12-2 loss to Phenix City, Ala., on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Bonita-based team scored first in the second inning on a single to left field by Sebastian Pino that brought Tempe Tran home. But the Southeast team responded with three runs in the bottom of the second inning and four more in the bottom of the third, including a home run by Cam Lee.<\/p>\n
In the fourth inning, Tran hit a triple, scoring Isaac Ram\u00edrez. But the comeback effort fell short.<\/p>\n
Southeast Region scored four more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, ending the game on the Little League 10-run rule.<\/p>\n
Turning point: Lee\u2019s home run scored Casen Smith in the bottom of the third inning.<\/p>\n
Stats that matter: Sweetwater Valley\u2019s Tran scored a run and had one hit and an RBI. Pino and Teagen Cochran each had a hit, and Ram\u00edrez a hit and a run.<\/p>\n
He said it: \u201cGetting to coach that group of boys, that was special. I hope that I get to coach them in the future again at some point, but coaching them this season was by far the highlight of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously it\u2019s not the result we wanted. I told them it wasn\u2019t our best baseball playing out here, it was actually probably our worst baseball of the entire All-Star season. But the overarching theme I told them was we could talk about all the mistakes we made today, but the overarching theme was how proud I am of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super proud of them. To accomplishing this, to be in the top 20 in the world, to go on this run.<\/p>\n
\u201c(I told them) So many kids in your city, in your state, in the United States, and in the world, that wanna be in your position, and you guys should be super proud of that.\u201d \u2014 Sweetwater Valley coach Steve Winnick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES: Southeast 12, West 2\u00a0 What went down: Sweetwater Valley is out of the Little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-440939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}