Curacao advances to LLWS final

Reangelo Decaster threw 42⁄3 innings of shutout ball and Jaydion Louisa knocked in a run with a pinch-hit dribbler to lead Curacao to a 1-0 win over Taiwan to move on to the Little League World Series championship.

Curacao will play Sunday against either Hawaii or Tennessee, who were to play later in the day.

A Caribbean island with just over 150,000 people, Curacao has one tournament title, coming in 2004. But Curacao also was the last international team to play in the LLWS championship, in 2019, when it fell to Louisiana. The 2020 tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus and last year only U.S. teams played because of travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.

Taiwan is historically one of the best international teams in the LLWS, winning 17 titles. But its last championship came in 1996.

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