Two baseball teams in the Whitefish Bay Little League program saw their seasons end in some lofty places.
The Whitefish Bay Little League 12-year-old baseball team dropped a heartbreaker in Whitestown, Indiana, on Aug. 4, falling 2-1 to a team from Eldridge, Iowa, ending their bid for a trip to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Eldridge scored the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the sixth and final inning for a 2-1 victory to stay alive in the Midwest Regional tournament. Bay also lost to a team from Fargo, North Dakota, 3-2, and defeated a team from Kearney, Nebraska, 13-5.
The Midwest Region features teams from eight states. The state of Wisconsin has never sent a team to the 12-year-old Little League World Series. It was the first time a 12-year-old team from Whitefish Bay had reached the regional level.
Wisconsin had never sent a team to the 13-year-old Intermediate World Series either … until this year.
The Whitefish Bay 13-year-old team that made that showcase in Livermore, California, went 1-3 overall, starting with a 7-0 win over a team from Freehold, New Jersey, on July 27.
But Whitefish Bay's rally fell short in a 5-4 loss to a team from New Orleans on July 27, and then a squad from Irmo, South Carolina, handed the Blue Dukes a 10-3 loss on July 29.
The Flor Amarillo Little League team from Valencia, Venezuela, eventually won the title, defeating the U.S.-winning Central East Maui program from Wailuku, Hawaii, in the final, 12-7.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Whitefish Bay Little League falls short in bids to make more history
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