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Flink Sends Fairfield American into New England Regional Semifinals
Flink hits walk-off home run, Fairfield beats Rhode Island to earn No. 1 seed in semifinals.
Jamie Flink hit a walk-off two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to lift the Fairfield American Little League team to a 5-3 victory over Rhode Island and into the New England Regional semifinals as the top seed.
Fairfield American improved to 15-2 overall this summer with Tuesday afternoon’s win at Breen Field in Bristol and also finished 3-1 in the regional pool play.
Fairfield will place again on Thursday at 3 p.m. in the semifinals.
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“I just try to do the right thing in each moment and luckily sometimes I do get it done, sometimes I don’t,” Flink, who has three game-winning home runs this summer, told Mary Albl of the New Haven Register/GameTimeCT. “And usually all the time it’s my teammates that get me into that spot, we do it together and that’s just how we win each game.”
Read the full story at GameTimeCT.com here.
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