Tiverton Youth Baseball Team Advances to Autumn League World Series

A team of players from Tiverton Little League made it to the World Series of the Autumn Baseball League and will compete in the 10-year-old division finals against Taunton Independent. The series is best of three, beginning with a double header this Saturday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m., at the Fairhaven Little League Complex on Shaw Road in Fairhaven, MA.

The games are free admission. If needed, a third game will be played on Sunday.

After finishing the regular season with a record of 9-5, Tiverton advanced to the playoffs last weekend against number one seed Greater New Bedford Computer Guys. Despite adverse weather and hard fought games on their opponent’s home field, Tiverton used two complete-game pitching performances, clutch hitting and flawless defense to sweep the first round of the playoffs with a 6–1 win on Saturday and a 7–6 nail biter victory on Sunday.

“It’s been like this all year with this group of kids,” Tiverton manager Steve Schneider said. “This team just keeps on fighting and it’s impossible to count them out.”

He added that Tiverton Little League produces great players, and this is just more proof of that.

"We couldn’t be prouder of the way these kids have represented their community," Schneider added.

Their opponent, Taunton Independent, finished the regular season with a 10 and 4 record and advanced to the World Series with a two-game sweep over SouthCoast Explosion.

The Autumn Baseball League is an independent fall baseball league formed in 2000. This season it features 49 teams in six divisions. Tiverton is the only team from Rhode Island in the 10-year old division, along with teams from Fall River, Taunton, New Bedford, Fairhaven and Swansea.