West Point to face Italian team at Little League Softball World Series
West Point will play its second game of the Little League Softball World Series at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Greenville, N.C.
The elimination bracket game was moved up an hour due to pending weather in the forecast.
It will be shown on ESPN Plus.
West Point needs to defeat Emilia Romagna of Bologna, Italy, the Europe-Africa Region winner, to stay alive in the 12-team bracket.
West Point (11-2) dropped its opener to Wilcox, Ariz., 2-1.
Europe-Africa lost its first World Series game to North Carolina, 16-0, in a run-rule finish.
Bill Beckner Jr. is a TribLive reporter covering local sports in Westmoreland County. He can be reached at bbeckner@triblive.com.
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