Waipio, Hawaii Wins Little League US Championship, Advances to LLWS Final
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
UPDATE: Hawaii falls short against Japan in Little League World Series Game.
Waipio, Hawaii beat Pearland, Texas today for the United States Championship after doing the same to Georgia on Friday. Not only did the team from Hawaii continue its amazing run, it used the mercy rule to defeat the Texas team in only five innings.
Shorthanded with regards to its pitching staff, Hawaii called on their little lefty dynamite Ezra Heleski. Not only did he pitch a great game against a very powerful Texas team, he pitched a five-inning two-hitter. His offensive stats weren’t bad either, as he had two run-scoring singles and also scored the game-ending run on a wild pitch.
With so many people contributing offensively it is hard to name a MVP for the game. In my opinion it has to be Heleski. With their top-three pitchers unavailable to pitch, Heleski pitched a game for the ages. Without that performance they would be going home.
Contributing to the run-scoring onslaught Kaimana Bartolome hit a 2-run double and Noah Shackles added a 2-run homer. Kahoea Akau started the rally with his first of three hits. The final score of the game was 10-0.
Waipio, Hawaii has now won 5 straight elimination games and turns its sights on Japan. Japan came from behind and ended up wining in extra innings against a Chinese Taipei team that was considered to be the best team in the tournament.
If Waipio can win tomorrow it will be the third time that the state of Hawaii has won the LLWS in the last 6-years. Ewa Beach in 2005 and Waipio in 2008 were the other two teams to do it.
The championship game can be seen tomorrow on ABC (KITV 4 for local residents) at 3 PM Eastern Time (9AM Hawaii Time).

Though not scoring another hole-in-one like she did yesterday, Michelle Wie managed to maintain her 3-stroke lead going into the weekend at the Canadian Open. Wie shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to stay 3-strokes ahead of Jiyai Shin of South Korea, who had a second-round 67.
The little league all stars from Waipio Hawaii continued their magical run today by pounding Georgia and advancing to the United States title game against Texas. After 
UPDATE: They’ve done it!! 
UPDATE:
Today, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 is the third consecutive lay day for the 



























