Canada earns 1st win at Little League World Series

Team Canada finally hit the win column in its final game of the Little League World Series.

Justin Atkinson singled in the decisive run in the bottom of the sixth inning as Canada rallied to beat Saipan 2-1 in a clash of winless teams Tuesday at Williamsport, Penn.

Canada, represented by the Whalley Little League all-stars from Surrey, B.C., improved its record to 1-2; Saipan fell to 0-3.

Trailing 1-0, Braeden Smith led off the sixth with a single and scooted to second base on a wild pitch before taking third on Mitchell Comeau's bunt single.

"When I got up, every part of my body was shaking," Smith said. "This was my first and last World Series, so I didn't want us to go out 0-3."

Smith tallied on a fielding error on a ball hit by Brody Hawkins, but Comeau was thrown out at home plate trying to score the go-ahead run.

Hawkins advanced to second on the play and hustled home with the winning run on Atkinson's single to right field.

Saipan notched its lone run in the third, when Richard Dela Cruz was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.