Kentucky Little League Wins Weather-Delayed Elimination Game to Reach Regional Final

Overview

• North Oldham beat Jasper National (Indiana) 8-5 after a game that stretched roughly seven and a half hours because of at least two long weather delays that began after the first and fourth innings.
• The win saved Kentucky’s season in an elimination matchup that would have ended North Oldham’s tournament run if they had lost.
• Easton Craig pitched the entire contest for North Oldham, throwing 75 pitches over the weather-interrupted day and helping keep the team in the game.
• Kentucky rallied with a four-run fifth inning and added three runs in the sixth to turn a 4-1 deficit into the final 8-5 margin; the game was televised on ESPN.
• North Oldham will face Ohio in the Great Lakes Region championship on Wednesday for the Little League World Series berth, and a Kentucky team has not won the LLWS since 2002.