51.   Last year, they met in the regional final, and Illinois won easily.

52.   Kentucky and North Carolina carry too much history to slug it out in a regional final.

53.   Last year, Tennessee won in a regional final and won the national title.

54.   Last year, they went down to the last half-hour of the last match at Barbados to even make it to the regional finals.

55.   Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras and Jamaica have already qualified for the regional finals.

56.   No other Little League team from State College has ever made it to a regional final.

57.   Next up will be North Carolina in the regional final in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

58.   Not once, not twice, but three times, which means that he will find himself in the regional final.

59.   One regional is in San Diego and the regional finals are in Anaheim.

60.   Providence, which lost to Arizona in a regional final last season, challenged the Utes into the final minutes with one returning starter.