The first game of the Whalley Little League will take place on Wednesday at 2 p.m. against Taiwan.
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The Whalley Little League of Surrey has secured a spot in the 2024 Little League Baseball World Series and will play its first game on Wednesday.
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Last month, Whalley beat six other British Columbia teams to earn the right to represent the province at the national championships.
Then on August 8, the team beat Medicine Hat Little League in Ontario to become Canadian Little League champions and clinch a spot in the World Series. This is Whalley’s seventh trip to the World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and the 11th time a Surrey team has made the cut.
Whalley’s last appearance was in 2018. The team will play its first game on Wednesday against the Kuei-Shan Little League of the Asia-Pacific Region.
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It will be a tough game for the local boys. Taiwan’s Kuei-Shan Little League returns to get the win they couldn’t get last year. They had the hardest-throwing pitcher and left the tournament in third place, but the team lineup is completely different.
The winner of the Taiwan-Canada match will face Australia, which received a bye in the first round. The loser will go into the elimination round.
Little League is one of several minor baseball organizations in British Columbia and Canada, and teams from British Columbia have dominated the national championship in recent years. When the Whalley Allstars won the 2018 Canadian Little League championship in Quebec and advanced to the World Series, they became the 13th team from the province to do so in 14 years.
No Canadian team has ever won the World Series.
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— With files from The Associated Press
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