RUMSON, N.J. With Wicomico having won the first Division 3 East Regional Pop Warner Football title of the day, and Dorchester taking the next game, the pressure was on the Caroline Cougars Pee Wee team to keep a good thing going for the Eastern Shore.

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EASTON The Talbot County YMCA swim team racked up 405 points on Saturday, outdistancing Mid-Delmarva Family YMCA (Salisbury) by 200 points and Sussex Family YMCA of Rehoboth, Del. by over 300 in a season-opening tri-meet.

MILFORD, Del. The Dorchester Midgets Pop Warner football team defeated the Laurel (Del.) Bulldogs 33-6 on Nov. 12 in the first round of the Eastern Regional playoffs at Milford High.

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EASTON Tori Weems, Brooke Bielecki, Olivia Wojtowicz and Tommy Yoviene each won two individual events and the Talbot County YMCA Stingrays swim team won seven relays Saturday en route to a second-place finish at the 30th annual Opening Gun meet.

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EASTON The members of the Talbot County Senior League All-Stars, the first Maryland team to take the Eastern Regional championship, got accolades, plaques and advice Sunday night at a banquet in their honor.

EASTON - It might be awhile before Ryan Summers plays his next game, but area players will soon have the chance to help the 11-year-old lacrosse fanatic in his ongoing recovery while learning from a professional.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) - The championship game of the Little League World Series has been moved back three hours to noon Sunday with Hurricane Irene expected to hit Pennsylvania.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) Ben Askelson hit a high 0-1 curveball onto the hill beyond the left-field fence to send the boys from Billings, Mont., into the U.S. final of the Little League World Series with a 1-0, seven-inning victory over Huntington Beach, Calif., on Wednesday night.

It's been a long while since I suffered a case of baseball-related separation anxiety. But this year, it's happening again.

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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) Every step around the bases and every swing at the plate made Jake Fromm's back ache.

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BANGOR, Maine A day after blowing a six-run lead in an 8-6 Senior League World Series loss to Southwest champ Tyler, Texas, the Talbot County all-star team appeared on the verge of letting another one slip away.

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BANGOR, Maine In poker, a pair of fours never beats three deuces. But in baseball, two four-run innings will shoot down what gamblers call a "set of ducks" every time.

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EASTON News of the Talbot County all-star Senior League baseball team winning the first-ever Eastern Regional title by a Maryland team and reaching the World Series has local residents at a fever pitch hoping the team can take the world title in Maine this week.

WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The Maryland Junior League softball state champions played perhaps their strongest game of the Eastern Regional tournament Wednesday morning against Pennsylvania. Its reward, elimination from the race for the region semifinals.

WEST HAVEN, Conn. - After its first comeback bid of the day came up short against tournament host Connecticut District 4 Tuesday morning and Connecticut-Black Rock's Rachel Landock pitched four perfect innings to start the second contest, Maryland was looking at the very real possibility of dipping below .500 in pool play for the first time in the Junior League softball Eastern Regional tourney.

EASTON The Bayside Breeze 14-under softball team has scheduled tryouts for the 2011-12 season this Saturday, Aug. 13, at the VFW field at 2 p.m.

ANNAPOLIS Open tryouts for the 2012 season of Chesapeake Club Lacrosse will be held Sept. 10-11 at Bates/Heritage Park in Annapolis. Athletes are encouraged to attend both tryout sessions.

THOROFARE, N. J. -- The state champion Talbot County senior league all-star baseball team won its second straight Senior League Eastern Regional contest by rout rule Sunday night, rolling over Connecticut state champ Edgewood, 10-0 in five innings. at Union Field.

WYE MILLS Chesapeake College will host its third annual Junior Tennis Tournament the weekend of Oct. 8-9, adding boys' and girls' doubles to its previous offerings of boys' and girls' singles and mixed doubles.

EASTON Tryouts for the Talbot County YMCA swim team have been scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 16 and 23, from 6-7 p.m. at the YMCA.

WALDORF - The Caroline County Junior League baseball all-stars had been in sticky situations before, but against Hughesville's pitching carousel the District 6 champions found themselves in a hole they couldn't escape.

HURLOCK After winning its first two games of the state tournament, the Caroline County Junior League all-star softball team had the luxury of a mulligan in case things didn't go as planned in Tuesday evening's final against St. Mary's-American.

MAUGANSVILLE After breezing through the District 6 tournament in four games and outscoring their opponents 41-7, the South Caroline 11-12-year-old Little League baseball all-stars entered the state tournament on an offensive tear.

HURLOCK By the end of the second inning, the buzz in the bleachers had Caroline County tabbed as the team to beat at this year's Junior League softball state tournament.