Ga., Japan play for Little League title
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The boys from Columbus, Ga., will face a team from Kawaguchi City, Japan, on Monday night for the Little League World Series title. The squads were forced to spend another day far from home because rain washed away their first attempt to play Sunday.
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The Sporting News - The Braves have been going to the postseason for a long time. Who can forget the 1991 worst-to-first World Series between Atlanta and Minnesota? Arguably, it produced the greatest World Series games ever.
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Texas is two steps away from a world championship. Chance Murski hit a grand slam and Randal Grichuk hit a three-run homer to lead Richmond, Texas, to the United States final with an 8-2 win over Morganton, N.C., last night at the Little League World Series.
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Chipper Jones hit a three-run homer and JD Drew also went deep as the Atlanta Braves continued to close in on another division title with an 8-1 win over the Florida Marlins in Miami Friday.
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Akinori Iwamura stepped up to the podium, took a deep breath and smiled. The last time the five-time Japanese League All-Star remembered feeling so nervous, his country was facing the United States on the way to winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic last winter.
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Athens -- Take it from her roommate, Lovieanne Jung isn&#39;t just going to give up. Jung&#39;s 17-pitch at-bat -- 13 fouls, four balls and one significant assist from the sun -- exemplified the patience it took for the US softball team to get by Japan 3-0 in ...
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The Agganis All-Star games mean it's back to work for local high school athletes. Next Sunday four days of competition begin with the softball and baseball games. Both will be held at Fraser Field in Lynn with softball at 5 p.m. followed by baseball at 7.
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The Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros hope Texas will be the swing state in their National League division series after both teams&#39; bats resembled toothpicks for much of Games 1 and 2 in Atlanta.
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Chrissy Givens scored 25 points and Amber Holt had 21 to lead Middle Tennessee past No. 8 Georgia 70-62 Thursday night. The Blue Raiders (6-3) forced Georgia (7-1) into 22 turnovers in beating the Lady Bulldogs for the first time in 12 tries.
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Mike Hampton pitched six solid innings and added a two-run homer to lead Atlanta to a 5-4 win over Chicago in the opener of a three-game series at Wrigley Field.
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The Atlanta Braves celebrated another division title in style. Shawn Green powered Los Angeles past San Francisco in an NL West showdown. Roger Clemens helped the Houston Astros keep pace in the wild-card race with another vintage pitching performance.
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Chipper Jones hit a three-run homer and J.D. Drew also went deep as the Atlanta Braves continued to close in on another division title with an 8-1 win over the Florida Marlins in Miami Friday.
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After 10 games defending the nets of a Danish club, Japanese goalie Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi is heading home next month to join Japan&#39;s J-League club Jubilo Iwata and focus on his national team, Denmark club FC Nordsjaelland said
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Atlanta Braves locked up their 13th consecutive division title with an 8-7 victory over the defending World Series champion Florida Marlins on Friday.
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The Sudbury Senior Babe Ruth baseball team won the Central Massachusetts championship earlier this month, finishing first in the North Division and winding up with a 20-4 overall record. The team, which has players 16 to 18 years old, won six of seven playoff games, including its final six post-season games, finishing with a 7-4 victory against South champion Bellingham ...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fred Gibson promised Georgia fans a really big game. He didn&#39;t deliver. The Bulldogs will have to settle for the biggest catch of Saturday&#39;s 31-24 win over Florida.
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Itâs risky to call a series in late September that neither team really has to win a playoff preview. Just the same, the three-game series between the Twins and Yankees that concludes Thursday is as compelling as such series get.