Little League World Series 2014

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Little League World Series 2014
Tournament details
host United StatesUnited States United States
Period 14.-24. August
Attendees 16
Defending champion   JapanJapan Japan
Bottom line
gold
winner 		Korea SouthSouth Korea Asia-Pacific (3rd title)
silver
Second 		USA IllinoisIllinois Big lakes
bronze
Third 		JapanJapan Japan
Fourth USA NevadaNevada west
statistics
Games   32
< 2013 2015 >

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

The Little League World Series 2014 was the 68th 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 . In 2014 the Little League Organization celebrated its 75th anniversary.

Attendees

The 16 teams formed a group of eight teams from the United States and a group of eight international teams. The two groups each played a double elimination round, and in the end the winners of the groups played against each other for the world championship title.

United States International
USA IllinoisIllinois Chicago , Illinois
Great Lakes Region 		Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul , South Korea
Asia Pacific and Middle East
USA PennsylvaniaPennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
Region Central Atlantic 		CanadaCanada Vancouver , British Columbia
Canada
USA South DakotaSouth Dakota Rapid City , South Dakota
Midwest Region 		Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Humacao , Puerto Rico
Caribbean
USA Rhode IslandRhode Island Cumberland , Rhode Island
region, New England 		Czech RepublicCzech Republic Brno , Czech Republic
Europe and Africa
USA WashingtonWashington Lynnwood , Washington
Northwest Region 		JapanJapan Tokyo
Japan
USA TennesseeTennessee Nashville , Southeast Tennessee
region 		VenezuelaVenezuela Maracaibo , Venezuela
Latin America
USA TexasTexas Pearland , Texas
Southwest Region 		MexicoMexico Guadalupe , Mexico
Mexico
USA NevadaNevada Las Vegas , West Nevada
Region 		AustraliaAustralia Perth , Western Australia
Australia

Results

The game dates were announced in November 2013. The drawing of the encounters and the setting of the schedule took place on June 11th.

Round United States

  Round 1     round 2     Round 3     US semifinals     US championship
                                               
  Game 1
  USA IllinoisIllinois  Great Lakes (5) 12  
  USA WashingtonWashington  northwest 2     Game 5
      USA IllinoisIllinois  Big lakes 2  
  Game 2     USA NevadaNevada  West (4) 13    
  USA South DakotaSouth Dakota  Middle West 2          
  USA NevadaNevada  West (5) 12         Game 7
  Winning round       USA NevadaNevada  west 8th            
  Game 3       USA PennsylvaniaPennsylvania  Central Atlantic 1              
  USA PennsylvaniaPennsylvania  Central Atlantic 4th              
  USA TennesseeTennessee  Southeast 0     Game 6          
      USA PennsylvaniaPennsylvania  Central Atlantic 7th          
  Game 4     USA TexasTexas  southwest 6th        
  USA TexasTexas  southwest 6th          
  USA Rhode IslandRhode Island  New England 4th         USA NevadaNevada  west 5
      USA IllinoisIllinois  Big lakes 7th
     
     
  USA WashingtonWashington  northwest 7th        
  USA South DakotaSouth Dakota  Middle West 5     USA WashingtonWashington  northwest 4th        
    USA TexasTexas  southwest 11          
  Losers round       USA TexasTexas  southwest 1        
  USA TennesseeTennessee  Southeast 7th         USA IllinoisIllinois  Big lakes 6th     USA IllinoisIllinois  Big lakes 6th    
  USA Rhode IslandRhode Island  New England 8th     USA Rhode IslandRhode Island  New England 7th         USA PennsylvaniaPennsylvania  Central Atlantic 5  
    USA IllinoisIllinois  Big lakes 8th  

International round

  Round 1     round 2     Round 3     Semi-finals international     International championship
                                               
  Game 1
  Korea SouthSouth Korea  Asia Pacific 10  
  Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Europe and Africa 3     Game 5
      Korea SouthSouth Korea  Asia Pacific 8th  
  Game 2     Puerto RicoPuerto Rico  Caribbean 5    
  Puerto RicoPuerto Rico  Caribbean (4) 16          
  AustraliaAustralia  Australia 3         Game 7
  Winning round       Korea SouthSouth Korea  Asia Pacific 4th            
  Game 3       JapanJapan  Japan 2              
  MexicoMexico  Mexico 4th              
  CanadaCanada  Canada 3     Game 6          
      MexicoMexico  Mexico 5          
  Game 4     JapanJapan  Japan 9        
  VenezuelaVenezuela  Latin America 0          
  JapanJapan  Japan 1         Korea SouthSouth Korea  Asia Pacific 12
      JapanJapan  Japan 3
     
     
  Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Europe and Africa 1        
  AustraliaAustralia  Australia 10     AustraliaAustralia  Australia 2        
    MexicoMexico  Mexico 6th          
  Losers round       MexicoMexico  Mexico (5) 11        
  CanadaCanada  Canada 0         VenezuelaVenezuela  Latin America 1     MexicoMexico  Mexico 1    
  VenezuelaVenezuela  Latin America (5) 10     VenezuelaVenezuela  Latin America 2         JapanJapan  Japan (5) 12  
    Puerto RicoPuerto Rico  Caribbean 1  

Crossover game

The teams that lost their first two games played the so-called crossover games against the respective teams of the other round.

date Stadion encounter Result
18th of August Lamade Stadium Czech RepublicCzech Republic Europe and Africa - USA South DakotaSouth Dakota Middle West 3: 5
August 19th Lamade Stadium CanadaCanada Canada - USA TennesseeTennessee Southeast 9:12

Consolation game

The consolation game was played between the loser of the US championship and the loser of the international championship.

date Stadion encounter Result
August 24th Lamade Stadium USA NevadaNevada west - JapanJapan Japan 0: 5

World Championship

date Stadion encounter Result
August 24th Lamade Stadium Korea SouthSouth Korea Asia Pacific - USA IllinoisIllinois Big lakes 8: 4

Trivia

  • With the team from Las Vegas, a team from Nevada took part in the LLWS for the first time.
  • Japan's loss in the third round was the first loss in 13 games since the final defeat in 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2014 DATES SET FOR THE NINE LITTLE LEAGUE® WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENTS. (No longer available online.) Littleleague.org, archived from the original on December 6, 2013 ; accessed on December 20, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.littleleague.org
  2. ↑ Schedule set for the 2014 Little League Baseball World Series ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )