A Little League Softball World Series title is on the line when West Suburban battles Floyds Knobs, Indiana, at 3 p.m. Sunday on ABC in Greenville, North Carolina.

West Suburban brings a 4-0 record during the event into Sunday’s championship clash, which includes three straight shutouts. The Cambria County all-stars beat Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the second time in three days with a 4-0 victory during Saturday’s Purple Bracket title game. West Suburban also defeated Tulsa 1-0 Thursday. The local squad has won 14 straight games since losing the opening game of the state tournament July 9.

Floyds Knobs (4-1 in Greenville) edged 2024 world series champion North Carolina 2-0 in seven innings Saturday to earn the Orange Bracket crown. A pair of groundouts in the seventh inning put Indiana ahead to stay.

Ace Briley Mercer went five innings and is eligible to pitch Sunday. If a hurler throws just one pitch in the seventh inning, that pitcher needs one day of rest. Facing the bottom of North Carolina’s order in the sixth inning Saturday, Grace Fiore entered the circle from second base and tossed two shutout frames. Fiore has thrown five innings in Greenville. 

During West Suburban’s win Saturday, pitcher Reagan Bills struck out 10 batters. Through four games and 24 innings, the right-hander from Patton has fanned 44 batters without allowing an earned run. She has tossed three straight shutouts. 

Bills provided an RBI single in the third inning Saturday. Mid-Atlantic added to its lead in the fifth, starting with Leilah Schilling-Mansour’s RBI double to right. Mara Keefe followed with an RBI infield single, and Sadie Divido added a run-scoring hit to make it 3-0. In the sixth, Kennedy Fees singled and came all the way around on a wild pitch and Mallory Bailor’s RBI single to right.

West Suburban finished with nine hits, including Camilla Gaunt’s double on the first pitch of the game. 

The Mid-Atlantic champions beat New England (2-1), West (9-0) and Southwest (1-0 and 4-0). 

Indiana dropped its opener 5-3 to North Carolina Monday, then defeated Europe-Africa (4-0), Latin America (2-0), Asia-Pacific (1-0) and North Carolina (2-0 in seven innings) to earn a shot at gold Sunday. Floyds Knobs went 5-1 in the Central Region. A combined no-hitter from Mercer and Fiore started the regional tournament. Mercer followed that with 15 strikeouts in a win over Michigan. 

West Suburban is seeking Pennsylvania’s first Little League Softball World Series title since Shippensburg won in 1978. Pennsylvania’s Tunkhannock lost in the 2018 final and Warrington fell in the 1997 title game. 

A team from Indiana has never won the Little League Softball World Series.Â