Henderson's Maddox Brian (14) celebrates with teammates aft driving successful the game-winning tally disconnected Hamilton, Ohio's Leo Feltner, foreground right, during the 5th inning of the United States Championship shot crippled astatine the Little League World Series tourney successful South Williamsport, Pa., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. Photo by: Gene J. Puskar / Associated Press
By Owen Cameros, Associated Press
Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026 | 7:08 p.m.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Carsynn Meyer had played successful Lamade Stadium before. The lights weren’t rather arsenic agleam then.
Now, Meyer and the remainder of her Nevada teammates person a accidental to marque much past connected the world’s biggest Little League stage.
Meyer, the archetypal miss to play successful the U.S. championship, had an RBI azygous to assistance Nevada bushed Ohio 12-2 connected Saturday and beforehand to the Little League World Baseball Series rubric game.
Meyer, who had played successful an all-girls tourney astatine Lamade earlier successful June, stepped to the batter’s container successful the 2nd inning to a roar of applause from the 20,000 fans. She proved she could play with the boys, delivering a azygous up the mediate with the bases loaded to widen Nevada’s pb to three.
“It’s awesome, particularly getting a hit,” Meyer said. “So, like, the archetypal miss to get a deed successful the U.S. championship? Awesome.”
Starting pitcher Owen Guzman had 3 hits, scored doubly and pitched solidly for 3 2/3 innings to pb Nevada.
Defensively, the squad from Henderson turned 3 treble plays to assistance Guzman and reliever Payton Hinsen, tying an LLBWS record.
“I deliberation we should person four,” Nevada manager Cory Edwards said. “I’m ace arrogant of the gait that they enactment with. We enactment connected that each the time, infield, outfield each day. I cognize we’re a pitching and defence team.”
It’s the second-straight finals quality for a Nevada squad aft a squad from Las Vegas won the U.S. title a twelvemonth ago. That squad mislaid successful the finals. This squad volition look planetary champ Curaçao successful Sunday’s finale.
“This close present feels beauteous surreal,” Edwards said. “Somebody asked maine earlier the game, ‘How are you feeling?’ I was conscionable like, ‘just different day.’ I deliberation erstwhile they started chanting my sanction is erstwhile I felt the value of it, of what we conscionable accomplished.”
Guzman opened the crippled with a triple and scored soon thereafter, but Nevada broke the crippled unfastened successful the 2nd inning. It scored 5 runs connected 4 singles, 2 walks and a deed batter. Guzman was portion of the cascade of runs, hitting a crushed shot up the mediate which scored Michael Guerrero.
Guzman’s 3rd deed came successful the bottommost of the fifth, an infield azygous to 2nd base. Three batters later, Brooks McFarland doubled to near field, scoring Guzman.
Bob Frazier led Ohio with 2 hits and an RBI.
Having played 3 other games to get to the championship, the Great Lakes determination champions from Hamilton, Ohio felt they ran retired of state aft outscoring their opponents by a combined people of 44-12 earlier moving into Nevada.
“Maybe my squad needed to play yesterday. We were benignant of connected a rotation and past they outhit us, they enactment the shot successful play, they moved the ball, and 3 treble plays didn’t assistance america either,” Ohio manager Timothy Nichting said. “In my eyes, it conscionable looked similar cipher had immoderate zip connected our fastballs.”
After Guzman scored, Nevada added 2 much runs successful the 5th and finished disconnected the 10-run regularisation win.
Meyer had a feeling this was imaginable erstwhile she near her squad successful June to play successful the all-girls tourney successful Lamade.
“I decidedly thought we could get present due to the fact that during the practices we had earlier I near for Williamsport I conscionable knew that we were a peculiar radical of players and we could marque it precise far,” Meyer said.
Ohio volition play Japan successful the consolation crippled astatine 10 a.m.
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Owen Cameros is simply a pupil successful the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism astatine Penn State.
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