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WILKES-BARRE -- The West Suburban 14U team captured the 2026 Little League Juniors East Regional Softball Tournament title on Monday.
West Suburban won two games Monday -- after officials changed the schedule in order to finish the tournament due to rain in the forecast -- to wrap up a dominating 4-0 tourney performance (outscoring its opponents 63-4) and punch its ticket to the Junior League Softball World Series in Kirkland, Wash., from Aug. 2-8.
West Suburban defeated New Jersey Ridgewood, 15-0, in four innings in the first game, and then, after Ridgewood eliminated Delaware Camden Wyoming, 5-4, West Suburban won the title with a 12-0 six-inning victory over Ridgewood in the championship game.
In the final, West Suburban's Olivia O'Roark gave up one hit and struck out 10 in five innings of work before Kylie Ferguson tossed a scoreless sixth inning.
On offense, Jerzy Bopp went 3-for-3 to lead a 14-hit attack and also scored three runs. Ferguson, Kylie Sweeney and Bryn Roberts each collected two hits, and O'Roark smacked a home run.
Earlier, West Suburban pounded out 19 hits in four innings in blowing past Ridgewood.
O'Roark went 3-for-3 with two doubles and four RBIs, Sweeney went 3-for-3 with two RBIs, Irelyn Scott had two hits and two RBIs, Roberts drove in two runs, and Adalyn Hines smacked a home run.
Scott and Camdyn Westover combined on a three-hitter.
West Suburban, managed by Rick Roberts, has two players -- Hines and Reagan Bills -- who played on last year's West Suburban 12U team that won the World Series. Most of the players are from the Johnstown area, but five are from the Mirror coverage area -- Bills (Cambria Heights), Westover and Reese Pinizzotto (Portage), and Ferguson and Abigail Claar (Central Cambria).
FIRST GAME
WEST SUBURBAN (15): Mash 2b 232, Roberts 3b 201, O'Roark 1b 303, Pinizzotto rf 200, Bills ss 300, Westover p 311, Hines c 322, Sweeney rf 323, Claar lf 322, Bopp cf 311, Ferguson 1b 222, Scott p 222. Totals -- 31-15-19.
RIDGEWOOD (0): Axisa cf 200, Ferrigno ss 200, Roiz c 201, Miller 2b 100, Ryan 1b 101, Lieberman p 100, Higgins lf 000, Pengitore rf 100, McCarren c 100, Osarchuk 1b 100, Masseria 3b 100, Semeniak lf-p 101. Totals -- 14-0-3.
SCORE BY INNINGS
West Suburban 168 0XX X--15 19 1
Ridgewood 000 0XX X-- 0 3 1
2B--O'Roark 2, Westover, Sweeney, Roiz. HR--Hines. RBI--O'Roark 4, Roberts 2, Sweeney 2, Scott 2, Mash, Hines, Claar, Bopp, Ferguson. WP--Scott. LP--Lieberman. SO--Westover 3, Lieberman 4. BB--Lieberman 1, Semeniak 1.
CHAMPIONSHIP
WEST SUBURBAN (12): Mash 2b 311, Roberts c 312, O'Roark p 311, Hines lf 301, Bills ss 210, Westover 1b 311, Sweeney rf 322, Claar 3b 300, Pinizzotto rf 211, Bopp cf 333, Ferguson 1b-p 302, Scott lf 210. Totals -- 33-12-14.
RIDGEWOOD (0): Avisa lf 100, Ferrigno ss 100, Roiz c 200, Miller 2b 200, Ryan 1b 200, Lieberman p 200, Higgins 200, Pengitore rf 200, McCarren c 201, Osarchuk cf 100, Masseria 3b 100, Semeniak p 100. Totals -- 19-0-1.
SCORE BY INNINGS
West Suburban 221 016 X--12 14 0
Ridgewood 000 000 X-- 0 1 5
2B--Sheeney. 3B--Bopp. HR--O'Roark. RBI--Roberts, O'Roark, Bills, Sweeney, Pinizzotto. WP--O'Roark. LP--Lieberman. SO--O'Roark 10, Lieberman 1. BB--O'Roark 2, Lieberman 1, Semeniak 2.
Records: West Suburban (4-0); Ridgewood (4-2).