Roundup: MOT reaches Intermediate baseball East finals

MOT left no doubt that it is the team to beat in the Intermediate baseball East Regional this morning.

The Middletown area squad posted an 11-0 victory over Pennsylvania to remain unbeaten and advance to the East championship game.

Now 4-0, MOT will play in the finals on Thursday at 9 a.m. at Dover Little League. If the Middletown squad loses, a second title game would follow at noon.

The East champion earns a trip to the Intermediate World Series in Livermore, Calif.

In today’s victory, Mason Guth allowed just two hits with eight strikeouts in five and a third innings. Kai Johnson went 3-for-3 with a two-run single in MOT’s six-run fifth inning.

Keystone, Pa. is now 3-1 and plays in the losers’ bracket finals on Wednesday at 1 p.m.

Junior League

Pennsylvania 3, Laurel 2: The Delaware state champions suffered their first loss in the East Regional today in DuBois, Pa.

Now 2-1, Laurel is slated to play again today at 8 p.m. against Massachusetts in an elimination game.

Softball

Major League

MOT 15, Washington, D.C. 0: The Delaware state champions stayed alive in the East Regional with the shutout win today.

MOT is now 1-1 in the tournament being played in Bristol, Conn. It plays again on Wednesday at 1 p.m.

Already leading 10-0, the Middletiown all-stars capped off the victory five runs in the fourth. They finished with nine hits in the contest.

Lower Sussex in Series: The Lower Sussex softball all-stars won’t have far to go to play in the World Series.

Lower Sussex earned the District II title and a berth in the Senior League softball World Series with two wins over Upper Sussex on Monday night.

Lower Sussex won by scores of 3-1 and 8-6 in the best-of-three series in Little League’s age division for 13-16 year olds.

The World Series, which is being played at the Lower Sussex complex, begins on Monday. The tourney includes 10 teams and is being played at Roxana for the 19th straight year.

MOT, which plays in the East Regional semifinals later today, could give Delaware a second team in the tourney.