WACO — The Boerne Little League team, or Texas West, just won the Southwest Region Tournament by defeating Louisiana, 4-1, Monday in Waco.
Boerne advances to the Little League World Series for the second time in three years after the 2024 team also made it and finished second in the nation and fourth internationally. This year’s LLWS begins Aug. 19 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Boerne and Louisiana were scheduled to play Monday in the semifinals game and the winner was going to play Oklahoma on Tuesday, but the Oklahoma team was disqualified for using an ineligible player. That left the winner of Monday’s game as the SW Region champ.
Boerne had a fast start on Monday and scored all four runs in the first inning off five hits.
Louisiana loaded the bases twice in the game, but Boerne’s defense held and took a shutout in the top of the sixth. Louisiana had two runners on and a double brought in one run, but the other runner tried to score from first and was tagged out at the plate to stem the rally.
Louisiana never threatened after that and Boerne closed it out from there to punch their ticket to Williamsport.
For more, see this weekend’s Boerne Star.
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