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Darien National Shines in Cooperstown Tournament
Darien posts an 8-1 record in a Little League tournament that featured 104 teams from around the country.
The Darien National Little League team, which advanced to the semifinals of the district one playoffs last month before losing to North Stamford, recently put on an impressive performance while competing in a 104-team tournament at historic Dreams Park in Cooperstown, New York.
The squad posted an overall record of 8-1 record in the American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame Week 9 tournament, which featured teams from all over the country. Participants came from as far as California, Arizona and Texas.
Darien was seeded fifth in the tournament based on its 6-0 record during the "regular games" played earlier in the week. Those games began last Sunday, with tournament contests getting under way on Wednesday.
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Led by the pitching and hitting of Charlie Travers and Casey Brown, Darien National impressed again against mainly All-Star teams during the competition.
It won eight straight games before falling in the quarterfinals. Darien beat Loudon, Virginia, 12-9, and Blackstone Valley, Massachusetts, 5-4, in the playoffsbefore losing to Swansea, Massachusetts, 13-1, in the round of eight.
Darien National was the last single-town team standing in a tournament that included a number of select teams. The tournament was won by a squad from Missouri, The Rawlings Junior Prospects, who defeated the P.B.I. Eagles from New Jersey, 15-6, in the final.
