Rain had pushed the semifinals to the tournament's final day. Instead of there being an evening between the semifinal matchup and the medal stage, now the final four national softball teams at the World Games -- USA,

Santa Cruz, Aruba manager Max Arendsz never had his team looking too far down the road or get too high of expectations. Once they were in South Williamsport for the Little League World Series, the goal was to hopefully make it to the International semifinals.

Connecticut beat Nevada on Wednesday to reach the U.S. championship game. Nevada could still make the U.S. title game if it beats South Carolina, which rallied from five runs down to beat South Dakota in extra innings in Wednesday night's elimination game.

Lin Chin-Tse is a 12-year-old little leaguer who is currently playing for Chinese Taipei in the Little League World Series. Chin-Tse plays both pitcher and outfield, but he went viral earlier in the tournament for his impressive fastball velocity as a pitcher in a game.

Lin’s coach says Olympic champion, who was embroiled in a gender row at 2024 Paris Games, will ‘go by the rules’ of the World Boxing event.

It then defeated No. 4 Chinese Taipei later that day by a score of 5-0 in the gold medal game. OU alum Tiare Jennings was named the Most Valuable Player for the World Games. The star infielder recorded seven runs,

12-Year-Old Wows LLWS With Pitch Speed MLB Stars Would Envy originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Chinese Taipei pitcher Lin Chin-Tse has some advice for those watching the 2025 Little League World Series and thinking that they could easily manage a hit off pre-teen pitchers.

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