Little League World Series 2001

Little League World Series 2001
Tournament details
host	United States
Period	17.-26. August
Attendees	16
Defending champion	Latin America region
Bottom line
winner	Asia (5th title)
Second	Southeast
Third	Caribbean
Fourth	Central Atlantic
statistics
Games	32
< 2000	2002 >

Coordinates: 41 ° 13 ′ 45 ″  N , 77 ° 0 ′ 2 ″  W.

The Little League World Series 2001 was the 55th edition of the Little League Baseball World Series , an international baseball tournament for boys between 11 and 12 years of age. Like every year, the game was played in South Williamsport , Pennsylvania .

Compared to the previous year, the field of participants was increased, the game for third place was reintroduced and the new Little League Volunteer Stadium opened.

The team from New York was disqualified because the player Danny Almonte was two years over the maximum age. All games of the LLWS and the qualification were retrospectively rated forfait for the opponent.

New regions

A total of 16 teams (eight international and eight US) were able to qualify for the tournament. For this purpose, the regions were divided as follows:

USA old	USA new	International old	Internationally new
East region	Central Atlantic region New England region	Europe region	Europe, Middle East and Africa Region (EMEA) Transatlantic region
South region	Southeast region Gulf States region	Far East region	Asia region Pacific region
West region	Northwest region West region	Canada region	Canada region (unchanged)
Central region	Great Lakes region Midwest region	Latin America region	Caribbean region Latin America region Mexico region

Attendees

The 16 teams play in four groups of four teams each against each other . The two best teams then play for the title in qualifying games.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Rhode Island , Rhode Island Region, New England	Bronx , New York Region, Central Atlantic	Santiago de Veraguas , Panama Latin America	Agana , Guam Pacific
Oceanside , California West Region	Bainbridge Island , Northwest Washington Region	Willemstad , Netherlands Antilles Caribbean	Calgary , Alberta Canada
Brownsburg , Indiana Great Lakes region	Davenport , Iowa Midwest Region	Dhahran , Saudi Arabia Transatlantic	Moscow , Russia Europe, Middle East and Africa
Lake Charles , Louisiana Region, Gulf States	Apopka , Southeast Florida Region	Tokyo , Japan Asia	Matamoros , Tamaulipas Mexico

Results

United States

Group A

space	region	W.	L.	%
1.	Big lakes	3	0	1,000
2.	west	2	1	0.667
3.	Gulf States	1	2	0.333
4th	New England	0	3	0,000

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
17th August	16:00	Volunteer Stadium	New England	-	west	0: 8
17th August	19:00	Volunteer Stadium	Big lakes	-	Gulf States	2-0
18th of August	19:00	Volunteer Stadium	New England	-	Big lakes	1: 5
August 19th	15:00	Lamade Stadium	west	-	Gulf States	5: 2
20th of August	14:00	Lamade Stadium	New England	-	Gulf States	2: 5
20th of August	19:00	Lamade Stadium	Big lakes	-	west	2: 1

Group B

space	region	W.	L.	%
DSQ	Central Atlantic	disqualified
2.	Southeast	2	1	0.667
3.	northwest	1	2	0.333
4th	Middle West	0	3	0,000

Since the team from New York was only subsequently disqualified, the results are still shown in the table. They had won all of the group stage games.

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
18th of August	13:00	Volunteer Stadium	Central Atlantic	-	Southeast	5: 0 0: 6
18th of August	16:00	Volunteer Stadium	northwest	-	Middle West	4: 3
August 19th	13:00	Volunteer Stadium	Southeast	-	northwest	2-0
August 20, 1	11:00	Lamade Stadium	Middle West	-	Central Atlantic	4: 7 6: 0
August 21	14:00	Lamade Stadium	northwest	-	Central Atlantic	0: 5 6: 0
August 21	19:00	Lamade Stadium	Southeast	-	Middle West	10: 3

¹ The game Iowa against New York was canceled from August 19th to 20th due to rain. postponed.

International

Group C

space	region	W.	L.	%
1.	Asia	2	1	0.667
2.	Caribbean	2	1	0.667
3.	Transatlantic	1	2	0.333
4th	Latin America	1	2	0.333

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
17th August	17:30	Lamade Stadium	Transatlantic	-	Asia	2: 4
18th of August	15:00	Lamade Stadium	Caribbean	-	Latin America	3: 2
August 19th	17:00	Volunteer Stadium	Transatlantic	-	Caribbean	3:10
20th of August	20:00	Volunteer Stadium	Asia	-	Latin America	1: 6
August 21	15:00	Volunteer Stadium	Asia	-	Caribbean	4: 2
August 21	18:00	Volunteer Stadium	Transatlantic	-	Latin America	11: 0 (5)

Group D

space	region	W.	L.	%
1.	Pacific	3	0	1,000
2.	Mexico	2	1	0.667
3.	Canada	1	2	0.333
4th	EMEA	0	3	0,000

date	time	Stadion	encounter			Result
18th of August	11:00	Lamade Stadium	Mexico	-	Pacific	5: 6
18th of August	18:00	Lamade Stadium	EMEA	-	Canada	1: 5
20th of August	13:00	Volunteer Stadium	Canada	-	Mexico	5: 6
20th of August	16:00	Volunteer Stadium	EMEA	-	Pacific	0: 5
August 21	11:00	Lamade Stadium	Pacific	-	Canada	6: 5
August 21, 2	12:00	Volunteer Stadium	Mexico	-	EMEA	2-0

² The match between Mexico and Russia was canceled from August 19th to 21st due to rain. postponed.

Championship games

	Semifinals				US and Intern. final				World Championship
	August 22nd, 16:00 Lamade Stadium
	C1 Asia	15th
					August 25, 8:00 p.m. Lamade Stadium
	D2 Mexico	5
					Asia	2
	August 23, 16:00 Lamade Stadium
					Caribbean	1
	D1 Pacific	3
									August 26th 6:30 pm Lamade Stadium
	C2 Caribbean	4th
									Asia	2
	August 22, 8:00 p.m. Lamade Stadium
									Southeast	1
	A1 Great Lakes	1
					August 25, 4:30 p.m. Lamade Stadium
	B2 southeast	6th
					Southeast	8 6			Consolation game
	August 22, 8:00 p.m. Lamade Stadium
					Central Atlantic	2 0
	B1 Central Atlantic	1 0							Caribbean	1 6
	A2 West	0 6							Central Atlantic	9 0
									August 26th 1:00 p.m. Lamade Stadium

Web link

• Official website of the Little League World Series 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} The games of the Rolando Paulino LL had to be rated forfait afterwards because it was found that Danny Almonte was too old. This also applies to qualifications.
2. ↑ Tournament schedule, results and Rosters LLWS 2001. (No longer available online.) Littleleague.org, archived from the original on September 13, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2013 (eng). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.