Louisiana’s team has only had to win two games so far, beating Tulsa and Hallettsville (TX-East) to get to the final. Teams from Louisiana are 5-1 in regional championship games. Since that loss to Sterlington, Oklahoma has won three games in a row, including beating East Texas on Thursday.

Haddonfield was down to its last out when Marco Rocco stepped to the plate Saturday night. The pitch came. Rocco blasted it over the left field fence with a full-circle crescendo to cap a week that brought this 12-year-old boy from the innocence of Little League baseball to a case study on sportsmanship and courtroom polarities.