A listing of the teams that have advanced to one of the eight World Series Tournaments of Little League Baseball and Softball

By Communications Division
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
July 20, 2009

Little League Softball World Series at Portland, Oregon on August 13 thru 19
Asia-Pacific: Guam Little League of Guam
Canada
EMEA: Lombardia Little League of Milano, Italy
Host
Latin America: Soraida Juliana Little League of Willemstad, Curacao, NA
Puerto Rico
U.S. Central
U.S. East
U.S. Southeast
U.S. Southwest
U.S. West

By Tim Hipps
Special to American Forces Press Service

CHULA VISTA, Calif., July 22, 2009 – Army Sgt. Jerrod Fields hasn\’t just learned to adapt as an amputee since hitting a roadside bomb in Iraq. He is on his way to becoming a record-holding sprinter.

Fields capped his track and field season by winning a gold medal at the 2009 Endeavor Games and setting his sights on the 2012 Paralympics.
A below-the-knee amputee sprinter in the Army World Class Athlete Program, Fields won the 100 meters with a time of 12.15 seconds June 13 in Edmond, Okla., site of the Endeavor Games for athletes with physical disabilities.
This spring, he finished second against an able-bodied field of collegiate sprinters with a 12.0 clocking in the 100 meters at the Occidental Invitational in Los Angeles.
Fields\’ coach, Al Joyner, said he believes his sprinter will flirt with world records on the road to London for the 2012 Paralympics.
\”I think he\’s a potential world record-holder,\” Joyner said in early February. \”I would put my money on him in both the 100 and 200.\” 

There\’s little reason to doubt Joyner, an Olympic gold medalist and Jim Thorpe Award winner who helped his late wife, Florence Griffith-Joyner, and sister, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, sprint and jump for Olympic gold during their illustrious careers.
Joyner, Team USA\’s sprint and high jump performance coach, began working with Fields in November at the U.S. Olympic Training Center here. 

Bridgeport took the first game thanks to a complete (7-inning) game from Esteban Yan, who struggled a bit with control, but gave up just two runs in seven strong. The win improved his record to 8-3 on the year. Josh Newman (1-3) threw four innings in his second start of the season for the \’sharks, and was saddled with the loss.

Collecting RBI in the first game for Camden were Vito Chiaravalloti, who drove home Brett Bonvechio in the second inning, and Bryant Nelson, who blasted a solo home run to right centerfield in the third.