Rowan County the State American Legion State Champions of North Carolina, the Southeast Regional Champs will play For the World Series Championship tonight. The World Series started Thursday in Shelby with eight teams playing a round robin three games within their division.
The Stars Division consisted of four teams Cumberland Rhode Island, Leesburg Va, Texarkana Ark and San Mateo Cal. The Stripes Division four teams were Rowan County NC, Rockport In, Omaha Neb and Kennewick Wash. Each day three games were play which will give every team a day off sometime during the weekend.
Rowan County lost their opening game Thursday to Rickport Indiana 6-3. They rebounded Friday sticking Omaha Neb with their first loss 5-2. They had Saturday off and finished up the round robin on Sunday beating Kennewick Washington 12-0. The top seed in the Stripes Division went to Indiana while Rowan County took second.
Over in the Stars Division California took the top seed while the Arkansas team took second. Monday the top seed in the Stars Division California took on the second seed in the Stripes Division Rowan County and the North Carolina State Champions take down California 13-4 sending the Tar Heel team to the World Series championship game.
The other semi final game features top seed from the Stripes Indiana against the second seed from the Stars Division Arkansas. When the sun had set Arkansas had knocked the second number one seed out of the Series winning 4-1. It was only Indiana's second loss on the season.
Tonight at 7pm you can watch the World Series live on ESPNU as all games the entire weekend have been seen. Rowan County North Carolina versus Texarkana Arkansas. The state of North Carolina will be going after the fifth World Series victory in the history of the World Series Which has been going on since 1926. This could be the first ever victory for Arkansas.
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