2002 Little League World Series

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2002 Little League World Series
Start date	August 16
End date	August 25
Teams participating	16
Champion	Valley Sports American Little League Louisville, Kentucky
Runner-up	Sendai Hagashi Little League Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

The 2002 Little League World Series took place between August 16 and August 25 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Valley Sports American Little League of Louisville, Kentucky defeated Sendai Hagashi Little League of sendai, Japan in the championship game of the 56th Little League World Series.

[edit] Qualification

Between five and twelve teams take part in 16 regional qualification tournaments, which vary in format depending on region. In the United States, the qualification tournaments are in the same format as the Little League World Series itself: a round-robin tournament followed by an elimination round to determine the regional champion.

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Fort Worth, TX Southwest Westside	New York City Mid-Atlantic Harlem	Valencia, Venezuela Latin America Los Leones	Sendai, Miyagi Asia Sendai Hagashi
Worcester, MA New England Jesse Burkett	Louisville, KY Great Lakes Valley Sports American	Regina, Saskatchewan Canada North Regina	Willemstad, Curaçao Caribbean Pariba
Webb City, MO Midwest Webb City	Aptos, CA West Aptos	Hagåtña Pacific Central	Monterrey Mexico Contry de Monterrey
Waipio, HI Northwest Waipio	Clemmons, NC Southeast Southwest Forsyth	Dharan Transatlantic Arabian-American	Moscow Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Khovrino

[edit] Pool play

The top two teams in each pool move on to their respective semifinals. The winners of each met on August 25 to play for the Little League world championship.

Pool A

Region	Record
Southeast	2-1
New England	2-1
Northwest	2-1
Midwest	0-3

Pool B

Region	Record
Great Lakes	3-0
Mid-Atlantic	2-1
West	1-2
Southeast	0-3

August 16

New England	2-3	Northwest
Midwest	0-1	Southwest

August 17

West	1-4	Great Lakes
Mid-Atlantic	9-3	West
New England	2-1	Midwest

August 18

Southwest	8-11	West
West	10-4	Southwest
Northwest	0-8	Southwest
Great Lakes	2-0	Mid-Atlantic

August 19

New England	6-0	Southwest
Midwest	1-2	Northwest

August 20

West	2-5	Mid-Atlantic
Southeast	2-4	Great Lakes

[edit] International

Pool C

Region	Record
Latin America	2-1
Pacific	2-1
Transatlantic	2-1
Canada	0-3

Pool D

Region	Record
Asia	3-0
Caribbean	2-1
Mexico	1-2
EMEA	0-3

August 16

Transatlantic

3-2

Canada

August 17

Pacific	1-11	Latin America
Mexico	1-10	Caribbean
EMEA	0-7	Asia

August 18

Transatlantic	6-9	Pacific
Mexico	4-3	Pacific

August 19

EMEA	0-13† (4 innings)	Caribbean
Asia	11-0† (4 innings)	Mexico
Canada	3-9	Latin America

August 20

'Asia	5-0	Caribbean
Canada	7-12	Pacific
Transatlantic	6-5	Latin America

[edit] Elimination rounds

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	August 21 - Lamade (Game ended by mercy rule)
	Sendai, Japan	10
					August 24 - Lamade
	Hagåtña, Guam	0
					Sendai, Japan	4
	August 22 - Lamade
					Willemstad, Curaçao	1
	Valencia, Venezuela	0
									August 25 - Lamade
	Willemstad, Curaçao	3
									Sendai, Japan	0
	August 21 - Lamade (11 innings)
									Louisville, Kentucky	1
	Louisville, Kentucky	2
					August 24 - Lamade
	Richmond, Texas	1
					Louisville, Kentucky	4			Third place
	Augsut 22 - Lamade
					Worcester, Massachusetts	0
	Worcester, Massachusetts	5							Worcester, Massachusetts	1
	New York City	2							Willemstad, Curaçao	9
									August 25 - Volunteer

2002 Little League World Series Champions
Valley Sports American Little League Louisville, Kentucky

[edit] Notes

• † Game ended by "mercy rule" (at least 10-run difference through 5 innings)

[edit] External links

• Official tournament page
• Review of championship game

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