By Thomas Grant Jr. Add two more Irmo Little League teams who have claimed state championships. On Tuesday, the 9-11 baseball team won its program-record fifth straight title in Greenville. They will advance to the Southeast Region Tournament of Champions in Wilson, N.C. In Florence, the Majors baseball team wonContinue Reading
By Thomas Grant Jr. This weekend finds four Irmo Little League state championship teams competing for a spot in the World Series in three different states. The Irmo juniors and seniors baseball teams and the seniors softball team open Southeast Regional play in three different states. The Irmo baseball seniorsContinue Reading
Irmo, SC – On Saturday, March 16th, Irmo Little League kicked off its 30th season with a grand Opening Day celebration at Friarsgate Park. Originally slated for March 9th, the event was rescheduled due to inclement weather, but the delay only added to the excitement. The festivities commenced with aContinue Reading
By Thomas Grant Jr. The Junior League World Series run for Irmo Little League ended in familiar fashion Saturday in Taylor, Ill. Team Southeast (Irmo) lost 3-2 to host team Michigan District Five in the US championship game. Max LaForest’s walk-off RBI sacrifice fly with one out in the bottomContinue Reading
Irmo Little League will play another day at the Junior League World Series in Taylor, Mich. Team Southeast (Irmo) defeated Team Southwest (Lubbock, Texas) 13-3 in five innings Wednesday in the loser’s bracket game. Cooper Derrick hit the first of two, 3-run homers by Team Southeast as part of aContinue Reading
By Thomas Grant Jr. The summer of Irmo Little League Baseball continues Monday in Taylor, Mich. A week after the senior team reached the Senior League World Series in Easley, the junior program now gets its turn. The team won the Southeast Region in Bridgewater, Va., beating out seven stateContinue Reading
By Thomas Grant Jr. “It’s been surreal.” That was Irmo Little League Seniors team head coach Pete von Ahn’s description of his team’s historic season. This All-Star group of players from Lexington-Richland District Five high schools Chapin, Dutch Fork and Spring Hill reached unchartered territory for the seven-year-old program. NotContinue Reading
By Thomas Grant Jr. The first-ever appearance in the Senior League Baseball World Series for South Carolina Southeast (Irmo) opened in heartbreaking fashion Sunday night in Easley. Grayson Austin’s walkoff RBI single in the bottom of the 7th inning lifted host team South Carolina Post 1 (Easley) past Irmo 3-2Continue Reading
By CT McDonald After winning their recent state tournaments, three Irmo Little League (ILL) teams are now headed for their respective Southeast Regional Tournaments on the road. The ILL Senior Softball, Junior Baseball and Senior Baseball teams each earned state championships and will scatter across the Southeast to compete inContinue Reading
By CT McDonald Irmo Little League (ILL) softball teams will be playing in state tournaments this weekend in Florence and at Friarsgate Park in Irmo. This is in addition to the ILL baseball teams competing in state tournaments this weekend, as reported last week. The 8, 9, and 10-year-old softballContinue Reading
By CT McDonald Irmo Little League baseball teams are headed to state tournaments, and there are more than just a handful of them. Irmo Little League (ILL) will host the 9, 10 and 11-years old Little League Baseball State Tournament at Friarsgate Park next Thursday through Sunday (July 6-9) andContinue Reading