Canadian clubbers
Sargent hits 2 of Langley's 5 HRs to power past Japan
Posted: Tuesday August 25, 1998 03:35 PM
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Canada's Mike Erickson rounds the bases after his second home run in an earlier game against team Latin America AP |
WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Sean Sargent hit two home runs,
including a three-run shot to cap a five-run seventh inning, as Langley,
Canada, beat Kashima, Japan, 10-5 on Tuesday in the Little League World
Series.
Langley went into the sixth inning trailing 5-1 before scoring four
runs in the sixth and five more in the seventh on four of its five home
runs in the game.
The Canadians have hit eight homers in the series.
With Monday's 4-3 win over Guadalupe, Mexico, Langley is 2-0. Kashima
is 2-1 and Dhahran 0-1.
Langley's win eliminated the defending champions from Guadalupe -- 0-2
before Tuesday's game -- from the international pool championship on
Thursday.
Mike Erickson led off the sixth with a solo home run, his third of the
series, and Jeff Duda followed two walks with a three-run shot to tie it
5-5. Langley starter Jordan Lennerton followed Sargent's seventh-inning
shot with a two-run homer of his own.
Kashima starter Takeshi Kato gave up one run -- Sargent's first homer
-- on four hits over five innings before manager Atsushi Ohkawa pulled him
before the final inning and the trouble started.
Tetsuya Furukawa continued his hot World Series hitting for Kashima,
going 2-for-4 with a grand slam, a double and five RBIs. He had a triple
and an RBI double in his first game and a homer in the second.
In later games Tuesday, Greenville, North Carolina, faces Toms River,
New Jersey; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, plays Guadalupe, Mexico; and Cypress,
California, meets Jenison, Michigan. The winners of the U.S. and
international pool championships advance to Saturday's final.
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