On the little league front, the boys from Saugus punched their ticket for the next round by defeating Richland, Washington 2-1. It was a pretty exciting game, given that, had the breaks gone their way, Saugus could have scored 6 or 7 runs. However, the most important breaks went their way in the perilous bottom of the sixth, the inning where they gave up their run and had opposing baserunners on second and third.

The Saugusians will round out pool play against Boynton Beach, Florida today. This will determine who wins the group, as both teams are undefeated.

A related shout-out to the team from Guam, who will round out pool play against the team from Mexico today. Guam has been shut out twice, so here's hoping they can break the streak.

I was also a little confused about the meaning of "Transatlantic" for the region that Dhahran, Saudi Arabia qualified from, until I saw some of the other locations and saw that they all have some sort of military connection (I suppose Saudi can have oil connections as well).

In unrelated sports news, our fantasy football draft last night was held captive by technology for most of the evening, as the unreliability of Yahoo Chat and a wonky DSL connection led to some delays, though the large percentage of live drafters helped keep things moving. I got to draft 11th out of 12, which when added to the computer problems and working proxies for two other owners, resulted in what feels like a very sub-par draft. Oh well.