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Port Washington is looking to win the N.Y. State final on Friday in hopes of getting one step closer to reaching the Little League World Series. Getty Images<\/p>\nThe tide is turning for Port Washington Little League.<\/p>\n
The Nassau County boys of summer are now a game away from being crowned New York champs after a heartbreaking semifinal exit in last year\u2019s state tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a true team,\u201d manager David Gabriel told The Post. \u201cEvery kid is contributing to where we are today. It\u2019s really just something special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday night\u2019s finals at 7 p.m. in West Nyack will be a duel between Long Island and Staten Island. <\/p>\n
Port Washington takes on Mid-Island Little League to climb one step closer to the Little League World Series.<\/p>\n
The victor represents the Empire State in the LLWS regional tournament, where they will travel to Bristol, Conn., and face the best teams from New Jersey, Rhode Island and the Constitution State in games televised on ESPN.<\/p>\n
That winner represents the Metro region for the big show in Williamsport, Pa.<\/p>\n
A five-run third inning sailed Port Washington to a 6-1 semifinal victory over Twin Town, NY, while Mid-Island showed mightiness in defeating Florida, NY, 11-1 in a five-inning game.<\/p>\n
Port Washington is looking to win the N.Y. State final on Friday in hopes of getting one step closer to reaching the Little League World Series. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Both squads are evenly matched at 2-1 in tournament play. Port has allowed 10 runs overall and Mid-Island nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re playing up against a really good Staten Island team,\u201d Gabriel said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to play our best baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isles streetball<\/p>\n
The Islanders and the KP21 Foundation of Kyle Palmieri (below) will be inviting several dozen children of military families for a free streetball clinic at Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow on Wednesday from 5-7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tide is turning for Port Washington Little League. The Nassau County boys of summer are now a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113697,776,9,11,10,49,51,50,319],"class_list":["post-310540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-little-league","tag-long-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}