Whalley Little League will play their first game on Wednesday at 2 p.m. against Taiwan
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Whalley Little League from Surrey have clinched a spot in the 2024 Little League Baseball World Series and will play their first game on Wednesday.
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Last month, Whalley beat six other British Columbian teams to win the right to represent the province at the national championships.
Then, on Aug. 8, the team beat Medicine Hat Little League in Ontario to become Canadian Little League Champions and earned a spot in the World Series. This will be Whalley’s seventh trip to Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the World Series and the 11th time a Surrey team has made the cut.
Whalley’s last appearance was in 2018. The team will play its first game on Wednesday against the Kuei-Shan Little League of the Asia-Pacific Region.
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It will be a tough game for the local lads. Taiwan’s Kuei-Shan Little League is returning to find the win they couldn’t clinch last year. They had the hardest-throwing pitcher and left with third place in the tournament but the roster is drastically different.
The winner of the Taiwan-Canada game will face Australia, which received an opening-round bye. The loser falls to the elimination bracket.
Little League is among several minor baseball organizations in B.C. and Canada, and teams from British Columbia have dominated the national championship in recent years. When Whalley Allstars won the 2018 Canadian Little League championship in Quebec to advance to the World Series, they became the 13th team from the province to do so in 14 years.
No Canadian team has ever won the World Series.
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— With files from The Associated Press
dcarrigg@postmedia.com
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