{"id":50987,"date":"2019-07-24T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/legion-little-league-postseason-action-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:20:00","slug":"legion-little-league-postseason-action-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/legion-little-league-postseason-action-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion, Little League postseason action heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Juneau Post 25 and Juneau Junior All-Stars’ respective postseasons will be on the line in the coming days at state and regional tournament action.<\/p>\n

Juneau Post 25, the capital city’s American Legion baseball team, begins the American Legion Alaska State Tournament Friday.<\/p>\n

Juneau (15-3), who nabbed the second seed after finishing with the second-best league record, plays No. 7 West Post 1 (11-7) at 3:15 p.m at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

The other teams that made the cut for the state tournament include: No. 1 Wasilla (16-2), No. 3 Chugiak (14-4), No. 4 Kenai (13-5), No. 5 South (13-5), No. 6 Palmer (12-6) and No. 8 Dimond (9-9). The Legion state tournament will be livestreamed at meridix.com\/channel\/?liveid=thealliance#\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Juneau Junior All-Stars were the only Gastineau Channel Little League team to make it out of the district and state <\/a>tournaments<\/a>. They now play in the Junior Baseball West Regional Tournament in San Jose, California. First up on the schedule for Juneau is San Jose, the host team, on Friday at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The winner of the regional will advance to the Little League World Series.<\/p>\n


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\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n


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