{"id":784424,"date":"2026-08-21T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784424\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:09:14","slug":"west-chester-plays-in-2026-little-league-baseball-world-series-tonight-heres-what-to-know-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784424\/","title":{"rendered":"West Chester plays in 2026 Little League Baseball World Series tonight. Here&#8217;s what to know and more."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another team from the Philadelphia region will have a chance to make a run in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/east-side-west-chester-little-league-world-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Little League Baseball World Series<\/a>. This time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/east-side-little-league-west-chester\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">East Side Little League of West Chester<\/a> will try to become the first Pennsylvania team since 1960 to win the annual tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 12-and-under team from Chester County went 3-0 in the Mid-Atlantic regional tournament to secure a spot in the LLBWS.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to know about the West Chester team and more as the LLBWS begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>East Side Little League of West Chester roster<\/p>\n<p>Here are the players and coaches on East Side Little League&#8217;s roster:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paul Cowperthwait, LF\/C\/3BPatrick Corliss, SS\/2BAdam Gazonas, LFJames Martin, 3BCole Warner, CF\/PRyan Donnelly, SS\/PJack Cassidy, 3BColton DiGrazio, CDarren Molineux, 2B, RFDillon DiGiulio, 1B\/PMike Nolan, 1B\/DH<\/p>\n<p>Coaches<\/p>\n<p>Manager: Robert HennesseyCoach: Brian DonnellyCoach: Matthew DiGiulioHow to watch West Chester team in 2026 Little League Baseball World Series<\/p>\n<p>East Side Little League will play a team from Bayonne, New Jersey (Metro region) in the United States bracket Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The game will air at 7 p.m. on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>East Side is latest team from Philadelphia region heading to Little League Baseball World Series<\/p>\n<p>East Side Little League of West Chester is the latest Pennsylvania team that will represent the Mid-Atlantic region in the LLBWS. It&#8217;s the fourth straight year a team from the Philly region made the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a team from Media, Delaware County, made the LLBWS. Teams from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/council-rock-newtown-little-league-world-series-hawaii\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Council Rock Newtown<\/a>\u00a0in Bucks County and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/glenmoore-eagle-little-league-world-series-2025-south-dakota\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Upper Uwchlan Township in Chester County<\/a>\u00a0each made the tournament the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>The West Chester team will try to become the first Pennsylvania team to win the LLBWS since 1960, when a Levittown team won the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How does the Little League Baseball World Series bracket work?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>East Side Little League will be among 20 teams \u2014 10 United States regional champions and 10 international champions \u2014 competing to win the 2026 LLBWS in Williamsport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is double-elimination, so once a team loses twice, they&#8217;ll be eliminated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The LLBWS championship, which will feature the winner from the U.S. and International brackets, will take place on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another team from the Philadelphia region will have a chance to make a run in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,20383,27004,3838,96450],"class_list":["post-784424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-chester-county","tag-little-league-world-series","tag-pennsylvania","tag-west-chester-pa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117132719798022882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}