The road to the LLWS U.S. Championship has brought Paseo Verde Little League and West Side Little League right back to where their Williamsport journeys began — against each other.

Nevada won the first meeting 6–5, rallying from a 5–2 deficit before Hudson Cowley delivered a walk-off single in the sixth inning. 

Since then, both teams have taken very different paths back to one another.

Nevada has stayed unbeaten. They shut out Washington 5–0 behind Brooks McFarland’s five strikeouts, then exploded for nine runs in the sixth inning to defeat Iowa 14–6 and punch its ticket directly to the U.S. title game. 

Ohio took the long road — and caught fire. Since losing to Nevada, Hamilton has won four straight elimination games, outscoring its opponents 39–6. On Thursday, Walker Osborne tossed a complete game as Ohio defeated Iowa 7–1 to earn the rematch. 

Now there’s only one game separating either team from playing for a Little League World Series championship.

🏔️ Mountain — Nevada

🌊 Great Lakes — Ohio

🏆 United States Championship

📅 Saturday, August 29

⏰ 3:30 PM ET — Lamade Stadium 

Nevada is unbeaten. Ohio is battle-tested. The first meeting came down to the final at-bat. Now they run it back with the U.S. Championship on the line.

Who you got?

April 9, 2026

This summer, there won’t be a Little League District 21 baseball tournament.

Instead, there will be a District 30 baseball tournament that will now include Bensalem, Bristol Borough, Falls, Levittown United, Middletown-Neshaminy, and Morrisville Little Leagues. Council Rock Newtown, Lenape Valley, Northampton Township, Plumstead, Solebury, and Warwick Township Little Leagues are original members of District 30.

For 67 years, District 21 oversaw the Little League summer baseball tournament in central and lower Bucks County. Originally created in 1958 to serve the lower half of the county, the district eventually lost its Central Bucks membership following a realignment in 1997 to the newly created District 30. Before that, District 21 thrived in an era when participation numbers were strong and local leagues were plentiful. Over time, however, demographic shifts and structural changes in youth baseball slowly reshaped the landscape.

Population decreases, league mergers, the introduction of Cal Ripken Baseball in 1999, and the evolution of travel baseball all impacted participation rates in District 21, especially over the past twenty-five years. Add in the availability of off-season competing sports, and participation declined even further. Twenty years ago, 10 teams made up the District 21 tournament. Ten years ago, that number dropped to seven. Last year, there were four.

Before the first pitch is thrown this weekend during Little League Opening Day festivities, let’s take a look at some District 21 history.

Before the creation of District 21, the 1955 Morrisville Little League team won it all in Williamsport. Then, just five years later, the 1960 Levittown American Little League team did the same. Both of these teams and their players have become local legends.

For the first 17 years District 21 was operational, a Levittown Little League team won the championship every year except one. From 1960 until 1974, Levittown American won eight championships.

During the mid-1980s, Council Rock Newtown went on a run. They were crowned champions in 1983, 1984, 1986, and again in 1987. Beginning in 1989, it was Middletown’s turn. They became the first Little League to win the district in four consecutive seasons (1989–1992). They returned as champions five more times through 2015. In 2006, the Bensalem Ramblers emerged as champions and repeated in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The Ramblers also won again in 2013.

Over the past 10 years, Morrisville has won the district seven times, including the last five consecutive years. Prior to that, they won championships in 1976, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2012, and 2014.

District 21 is gone—but its legacy isn’t. For nearly seven decades, it was the stage where lower Bucks County baseball grew up. And no realignment will ever take that away.