8th Annual Ukraine Little League Baseball Championships (ages 11-12)
Site: Illichivsk, Ukraine (near Odessa) Dates: June 5 - 10, 2007 Leagues: 8 All star teams participated, most ever. 93 players, and one girl. Tournament Directors:
Basil P. Tarasko, District Administrator of the Little League in Ukraine (1995) Vitaliy Lizogubenko, Assistant District Administrator (2000)
Results:
Teams were placed in Pools of 4 teams, chosen at random.
Kirovograd LL 10 - Donetsk LL 0, Kirovograd finishes in third place
Illichivsk LL 17 - Kyiv LL 16.
Illichivsk LL captures its first Ukraine LL Baseball Championships.
Illichivsk LL now advances to the EMEA Regional Baseball Championships in Kutno, Poland in August of 2007 to represent Ukraine LL.
Michigan: The official name of the Championship is the Junior League (ages 13-14) Baseball World Series held in Taylor, Michigan August 12-18, 2007.
The Kirovograd / Rivne LL all-stars represented Ukraine at the EMEA Junior League Regional Championships in Kutno Poland July 11-19, 2007.
Ukraine defeated undefeated England in the final game (extra innings) by scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning after England scored twice in the top of the ninth.
Ukraine now represents the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Region at the Junior W.S. in a ten team Championships.
EMEA Regional Little League (ages 11-12) Championships Aug 1-9, 2007 (Europe -Middle East - Africa)
10 Countries competed. Illichivsk LL represented Ukraine.
August 2: Ukraine 2 - Poland 12 Aug 3: Ukraine 0 - Belarus 8 Aug 4: Ukraine 0 - Italy 9 Aug 5: Ukraine 8 - Sweden 7
The Netherlands advances to the LL World Series in the USA.
2007 Junior League Baseball EMEA Regional Tournament - 11-19 July - Kutno, Poland
