East Side Little League of West Chester met Naamans Little League on Sunday, Aug. 9, in Game 2 of the Little League Baseball Mid-Atlantic Region Tournament in Bristol, Connecticut. The winner moved into the winner's bracket and one step closer to the Little League World Series 2026.
The game was scheduled for 1 p.m. ET and streamed on +, with live scoring available through GameChanger. For a regional bracket that will send one team on to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, that first matchup carried immediate weight because it helped set the path through the Little League Regionals 2026.
There was a second game in the bracket already underway that morning, with Berlin Little League and Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill Little League opening the tournament at 10 a.m. ET on +. The losers of that game were set to meet in an elimination game on Aug. 10, while the winners moved on to the next round on Aug. 11.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C., were the four represented in the 2026 Mid-Atlantic Region Tournament, which ran Aug. 9-14 in Bristol. The regional champion will claim one of 10 U.S. berths in the Little League World Series 2026, which begins Aug. 19 in Williamsport and ends Aug. 30 with the championship game.
What was missing from the early bracket was just as important as what was known: the score and the winner of East Side against Naamans were not yet part of the picture in the information available. That left the immediate question for fans focused on the bracket itself, not the season's bigger stage — which team would keep moving through the winner's side and which would have to fight back later in the tournament.
Lori Comstock, a New Jersey-based reporter with Network's Mid-Atlantic Connect Team, is covering trending news around the tournament. For East Side and Naamans, the first step was simple. Win on Aug. 9, and the road to Williamsport stays open a little longer.
