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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- As Ryan Harlost stepped to the mound on Sunday, he took it all in.Chants of U-S-A, U-S-A! droned over his left shoulder as he dipped it to deliver a warm-up pitch. South Korean arms and flags waved furiously to his right. Little kids who asked for his autograph earlier in the week used makeshift sleds to slide down the hill toward most of the 22,000-plus fans who packed Lamade Stadium.The Endwell, New York, pitcher admitted it made him uneasy. He sure didnt show it.Harlost led New York to the Little League World Series title, striking out eight and limiting South Korea to five hits in six innings in a 2-1 victory. He scored the deciding run on a passed ball in the fourth inning.I was a little nervous at first in front of a lot of people but its just another game and I felt confident going in, Harlost said.But it was more than just another game.Endwell snapped a five-year championship drought for U.S. teams on Little Leagues biggest stage and gave New York its first title since 1964. Huntington Beach, California, won in 2011 and Mid Island from Staten Island won New Yorks last World Series championship.Conner Rush had the New York teams only RBI to give Endwell a lead it wouldnt relinquish in the bottom of the fourth. Harlost (2-0) scored the deciding run on a passed ball a batter later.I was just thinking get it in play any way you can, Rush said. Once that happens, you never know what can happen.For a while, it didnt look like New York hitters would be able to hit anything.Junho Jeong (1-2) gave up two runs on four hits and struck out nine for South Korea (4-2). He was unflappable for most of the afternoon, working the outside of the plate masterfully for 3 1/3 innings of no-hit ball before Jude Abbadessa broke through in the fourth.Waking to the plate as Endwell fans along the first base side bellowed Juuude! Abbadessa broke up the rightys no-hit bid with a single to center. Harlost followed with a liner to the same spot and Rush plated the go-ahead run with a hit that fell in behind the shortstop. Harlost raced home to give New York a 2-0 lead one batter later.Its just been amazing, Abbadessa said. Just coming here would be amazing and then our team doing well is even more amazing. Its been fun the whole week and were glad that it turned out this way.Yoomin Lee homered for the Asia-Pacific champs from Seoul to halve New Yorks lead in the fifth. Harlosts precision and a stingy New York defense prevented further damage.In the second, right fielder James Fellows made a running grab at the warning track to rob Sangheon Park of an extra base hit. With a runner on first an inning later, Harlost snagged a hard-hit liner at the mound, tossed to first to get the putout and escape the third unscathed.Later in the fifth after Yoomins blast halved the score, Abbadessa scooped up a grounder that took an awkward bounce and threw to first for final out of the inning.The Mid-Atlantic team is a really good defensive team, South Korean manager Heesu Ji said. Im really proud of my team.Minho Choi struck out with runners on first and second to end the game.Harlost turned toward his dugout on the first-base side but didnt make it there as his teammates rushed out to dogpile on him near the base line.Most of New Yorks players had been on other teams together before. More than half of them were on the team that fell to last years World Series runner-up Red Land in the Mid-Atlantic Region Championship, leaving them one win shy of qualifying for a trip to South Williamsport.It was all of our last years of Little League, Rush said. So its just awesome to know that we all came together to be the best team in the world. Aaron Brooks Jersey . Fellow centre Pavel Datsyuk remains out because of a concussion. Zetterberg has 11 goals and 19 assists for a team-high 30 points, and Datsyuk has a team-high 12 goals and 11 assists. Reggie Miller Jersey . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. http://www.pa... . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. 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Ben Simmons needed advice.Hurting - both physically and emotionally - the Australian phenom craved some reassurance that the Oct. 4 surgery for a Jones fracture of his fifth metatarsal was something he could overcome. So who better to ask about triumphing over similar injury adversity than an NBA MVP and one of the purest scorers in todays game?First guy I did speak to was KD [Kevin Durant], Simmons told media before the 76ers home opener against Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night. He had something similar [and] he just said, Listen, get advice from everybody and [youll] be good. Its good to reach out to people like that that have gone through it.Durant, then with Oklahoma City Thunder, suffered the injury to his right foot just before the start of the 2014-15 NBA season, but he required three surgeries in six months before he returned to full health.The Sixers hope that wont be the case with Simmons. Since the injury, there has been much speculation that Simmons may miss the entire season, and just last Friday at Sixers practice head coach Brett Brown intimated that Simmons would return in January - that would mark three months since the injury - but later backtracked on his statement.I was just getting excited about how soon he might be able to come back, Brown said. There is so much speculation and dates as a coach you sort of want to hear what you want to hear at a time. I did mention a January hopeful return. That is premature. [...] That is a coach doing a lot more wishing than receiving instruction. So we will play this out. Everything is on track with his rehabilitation.Simmons, too, maintained he has no return schedule yet. Ill come back when Im ready, he said.Theres no timetable to getting healthy. Im just working hard to get back and as soon as they tell me I can play, Ill get out there.Simmons absence from the Sixers linneup clouded an otherwise optimistic beginning to 2016-17 for a franchise that has struggled in recent years.ddddddddddddCenter Joel Embiid made his debut against the Thunder, and there is hope that a young core consisting of Simmons, Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor could blossom into a force in the Eastern Conference.Simmons feels the team can do well this season.I think we can still be good, he said.Obviously those guys, theyre losing a player, but theyre still players themselves. Theyve still got to go out there [and compete]. Weve got a young team, and I think we can do well.A best-case scenario for Simmons is a January return; in the meantime he is looking at the positive side of things, saying he will use his time on the sidelines to absorb how the NBA game is played and how he can adjust his game to the professional level.Its not the best start to my NBA career, but now Im looking at it as a positive, Simmons said.It gives me time to learn about the game; the systems; offence; defence. Its a good time for me to work on my shooting, plays, everything about the game, and work on [learning] the scouting reports.It gives me time to work on my body, flexibility. Theres a lot of things Im looking at as a positive.Given he wont be cleared to resume basketball activities for some time, Simmons is focused on rehab, and being around the team as much as possible. He says hes at the practice facility daily, and its important to him for his teammates to see him putting in the work coming back from the injury.Im still a part of the team. Im in there every day rehabbing; my teammates see me in there putting in the work and theyre doing the same. The only thing I can do is rehab, and thats what Im willing to do. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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