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SPORTS Tuesday, August 27, 2019 East Oregonian B3 Louisiana wins fi rst LLWS title, beats Curacao 8-0 By TYLER KING Associated Press SOUTH WILLIAMS- PORT, Pa. — For the second straight day, a line drive found the glove of Louisiana short- stop Stan Wiltz and a dog- pile ensued in the infi eld at Lamade Stadium. Stan was fi ne with all that. Nothing seemed to go wrong for the boys from River Ridge over the last week at the Little League World Series, and Stan’s catch ended the game and the tournament Sunday, with Louisiana shut- ting out Curacao 8-0 to win the state’s fi rst LLWS title. “It felt like my glove was a magnet,” said Stan, who got his team into the cham- pionship on Saturday with a game-ending unassisted dou- ble play against Hawaii. The team from subur- ban New Orleans fought its way back through the los- ers’ bracket after dropping its opening game of the tour- nament to Hawaii. Louisiana won six games in eight days, becoming the fi rst team to win the LLWS after dropping its fi rst game since the tourna- ment expanded in 2001. “People from New Orle- ans and Louisiana in general are very resilient type of peo- AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar River Ridge, Louisiana’s Stan Wiltz embraces Peyton Spadoni (6) as they jump on top of Jef- frey Curtis and Conner Perrot (9) on top of the pile as they celebrate their 8-0 win Sunday against Curacao in the Little League World Series Championship game in South Williams- port, Pa. ple,” manager Scott Frazier said. “And this team exempli- fi es the resiliency that we have from the area that we come from.” Frazier said he felt the momentum shift for his team when it won its fi rst game of the tournament against Ore- gon. That win set the club up for victories over some of the tournament’s best teams — New Jersey, Virginia, Hawaii and Curacao. “Once we won that game (against Oregon), it was just a matter of getting on a roll,” Frazier said. Pitcher Egan Prather tossed a two-hit shutout Sun- day, throwing 88 pitches over six innings. His performance in the championship caps off a solid tournament on the mound in which he picked up two victories and struck out 19 batters in 14 1/3 innings. “It makes my job really easy to mix it up pitches when they can execute the pitches,” Frazier said. “Everything worked for him today.” The offensive break- through came in the fi fth inning for Louisiana as the club representing the South- west region scored four runs on four hits to seize control. Reece Roussel smacked an RBI double that was followed by Marshall Louque’s RBI single, his third hit of the day. “We were going to get those guys, it was just a matter of time,” Frazier said. “We’ve been so locked in this whole time.” Curacao, representing the Caribbean region, threatened in the top of the third. The team from Willems- tad loaded the bases with one out. But a sharp ground ball to Marshall at third base resulted in a force-out at the plate and a few pitches later, Jurdrick Profar, the youngest brother of Oakland A’s infi elder Jurick- son Profar, was thrown out trying to score on a wild pitch. “Once I got that out, I knew I was settled in,” Egan said. With Louisiana’s victory, U.S. teams have won back- to-back Little League crowns for the fi rst time since 2009, when a team from Chula Vista, California, capped off a streak of fi ve straight championships for the United States. “I can’t process it,” Fra- zier said. “This tournament started with approximately 7,700 teams, and here we are with the best out of every- body. It’s just surreal.” HITTING RECORDS The Louisiana duo of Reece and Marshall slugged their way into the LLWS record book Sunday. Each smacked a pair doubles to fi n- ish with seven for the tourna- ment and set a record. Reece also added to the LLWS hits record he broke Saturday, fi n- ishing with 17. The previous mark was 14. FEMALE UMPIRE Home plate umpire Kelly Elliott Dine became just the second woman to call balls and strikes for a Little League title game. She is the sixth woman to umpire at the LLWS in the tournament’s 73-year history. JAPAN TAKES THIRD Before the Little Leaguers from Chofu, Japan, even made an out against Hawaii, they had already supplied enough run support to back a stellar outing from Yuto Misaki on the mound. Japan scored three runs in the fi rst and two in the fi fth on its way to a 5-0 vic- tory in the LLWS third-place game. Misaki tossed fi ve shut- out innings, striking out 10 on his way to the win. Patriots’ Chung focuses upon football, not cocaine charge By MARK FARINELLA Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Having played for the New England Patriots for nine of his 10 NFL seasons, Patrick Chung is well-versed in how his team addresses potential controversies. It doesn’t. So it came as no surprise when Chung offered no information about a charge of cocaine possession brought against him in New Hampshire while speaking briefl y with reporters Mon- day inside the Patriots’ Gillette Sta- dium locker room. “Hon- estly, I’ve Chung been just here playing football. We just talk about football. So that’s all I’m going to talk about, talk about the Giants,” the 32-year-old safety said, referring to Thursday night’s preseason fi nale at home against the New York Giants. Earlier Monday, Chung waived a court appearance in Laconia, New Hamp- shire, and a lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Belknap County Attor- ney Andrew Livernois said police in Meredith, New Hampshire, were called to Chung’s home on June 25 “on a call for service” and obtained evidence leading to the felony drug charge. He was indicted on Aug. 8. Chung’s next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 8. Following his indictment, Chung said: COMING SOON in Your East Oregonian! “Just coming to work and I play. I go to the meetings and get into the playbook and I just get back, get over my injuries and get back.” Chung was a sec- ond-round draft pick by the Patriots in 2009 out of Oregon, and he returned to New England in 2014 after playing one season with the Philadelphia Eagles. He has been a major contrib- utor on defense to three of the Patriots’ six Super Bowl championships. Chung suffered a broke n arm late in the Patriots’ 13-3 victory over the Los Ange- les Rams in the last Super Bowl and has yet to play in a preseason game, only recently shedding the red practice jersey signifying his non-contact status. “It feels good,” he said of returning to full-contact status. “It’s a little hard to practice with a red jersey on and with pads. It feels good to be out there and be able to get a little physical and use my body a little bit.” Chung said he did not know if he would play Thursday against the Giants. “That’s not my decision,” he said. “I’m just out here practicing. If Bill (Beli- chick) wants me to play, cool, and if not, cool.” Belichick would not answer a question about Chung’s status last week. The Patriots have not commented on Chung’s indictment beyond a state- ment Thursday that said: “We are aware of the reports regarding Patrick Chung. 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