Jason Rasa scattered 12 hits in a workmanlike performance and Pearl City scored two runs in the top of the 10th inning to defeat Agana, Guam, 5-3, yesterday in the opening round of the Little League Senior (ages 14-16) World Series at Bangor, Maine.

Rasa, who also had two hits and an RBI, threw 136 pitches in going the distance. He struck out three, walked one and gave up three unearned runs.

Shannon Liu and Chad Quillopo hit run-scoring singles in the 10th.

Ryne Acosta's sacrifice fly in the seventh tied the score at 3 and Pearl City threatened in the ninth, loading the bases with no outs. But two runners were thrown out at home and the final batter struck out.

Jeffrey Domingo batted 3 for 4, and Quillopo and Rorry Nakayama each contributed two hits for Pearl City, which plays Clarksville, Ga., today.

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KALANI IN LEGION FINAL

Kalani held off Arizona, 5-3, yesterday to advance to today's championship game of the American Legion (ages 18-under) Western Regional in Las Vegas.

Kalani (4-0) took advantage of Arizona miscues to score three unearned runs, and reliever Eric Muraoka pitched out of ninth-inning trouble.

Kalani scored three runs in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead. One run scored on a wild pitch, another on a throwing error and the third on Marc Factora's single.

Kasey Ko, who hit an RBI double in the third, scored on a passed ball in the eighth to make it 5-2.

Muraoka replaced starter Allen Komori with the bases-loaded on no outs in the top of the ninth. He got one batter to hit into a fielder's choice grounder with a run scoring, a second to fly out and a third to hit into a game-ending fielder's choice grounder.

California and Nevada-Host, whose game was rained out yesterday, will play today with the winner advancing to the final. Kalani would need to win just once to earn a World Series berth.

O'AHU 2-0 AT RUTH

Pinch-hitter Evan Yamamoto's two-run single capped a four-run sixth inning that lifted O'ahu to a 5-4 victory over Effingham, Ill., yesterday in the Babe Ruth (ages 13-15) World Series at Abbeville, La.

Joshua Bninski started the sixth-inning rally with a homer. Two outs later, Harrison Ishida Jr. singled to left with the bases loaded to score a run. Yamamoto followed with his clutch hit on a 2-2 count.

Matthew Suiter batted 2 for 3 and Reece Kiriu worked six innings to earn the victory. Ishida pitched a scoreless seventh for the save.

O'ahu (2-0) plays Phoenix, Ore., today.

O'AHU 2-0 AT RIPKEN

Ryan Cortez and Kewby Meyer hit home runs, Kalani Lagoc-Crawford batted 4 for 4 and Timothy Arakawa drove in five runs as O'ahu routed Marblehead, Mass., 21-3, yesterday in the Cal Ripken World Series (ages 12-under) at Aberdeen, Md.

Meyer added three RBIs and scored four runs in a game that was called after 3 1/2 innings by the mercy rule.

O'ahu (2-0) plays Meridian, Miss., tomorrow.

TRIATHLON

SEYMOUR, ROLLES FASTEST

Chad Seymour was the first male finisher and Ingrid Rolles the fastest female in the 7th Jamba Juice MountainMan Triathlon at Kualoa Ranch yesterday.

Seymour finished the 750-meter ocean swim, 20-kilometer bike race and 6-kilometer trail run in 1 hour, 20 minutes, 8 seconds. Rolles finished in 1:33:58.

Stewart Naylor, Beau Miller and Matt Pitts won male team competition in 1:32:43.

Susan Burr, Jennifer Raams and Tanya Bettis led the women's team event in 2:20:26. Missy Capone, Ray Brust and Christian Friis captured the mixed division in 1:20:41.

In the companion 6K trail run, Tim Marr was the male overall winner in 23:19 and Nicole Balderson led the women in 32:43.