
Mountain
View Little League repeated as Arizona State Senior Little League Champions
(ages 14-16) with a hard fought 8-5 victory over a determined Casa Grande
Little League team Thursday night in Tucson at the Kino Sports Complex.
Dylan Cozens hit a 2-run homer in the 1st inning, and 5 Mountain View pitchers
limited Casa Grande to 7 hits as MVLL moves on to face Hawaii's state champion
next Tuesday at the Western Regional Tournament in Ontario, California.
Matt Lewis got the win on the mound for MVLL while Cozens (3 hits), Lucas
Jacobi (2 hits) and Greg Hopkins (2 hits) led the offense. It was
Mountain View's 3rd Senior Division championship in the last 5 years.
MVLL will now
represent ARIZONA in the Western Regionals in Ontario, California. MVLL
will open up against it's rival Hawaii on Tuesday, August 3rd at 7:00
PM. MVLL will play in pool A, with Northern Calif, Hawaii, Idaho,
and Alaska. The winner of the Regionals moves on to the Senior Little
League World Series in Bangor, Maine.
MVLL has claimed
a total of 7 Little League State Championshps in the past 12 Years, and 1
Little League World Series.
Stay tuned for
updates and live blogs. Congrats to Coach Erickson and his staff,
and again we want to thank all of our Parents, sponsors, and volunteers that
make this experience possible for the kids.
LET'S GO MVLL