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10-0 loss in semifinal against eventual series champ Hilo L.L., Hilo, Hawaii, was in five innings via the 10-run rule, as Friuli Venezia Giulia became only the second team to lose a semifinal via the 10-run rule. In 2006, York County L.L., Yorktown, Va., lost 11-1 in six innings to eventual series champ Paraguana L.L., Falcon, Venezuela... Took advantage of five errors to score four first-inning runs against Brewer/Orrington L.L., Brewer, before falling behind 6-4 in the sixth inning and then rallying to win on a two-out, game-winning double by Alessandro Tonzar with two outs in the bottom of the seventh... Rain postponed its game against Notre-Dame-de-Grace L.L., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Aug. 16... The team traveled to Boston on its regularly scheduled off-day on Aug. 17 to see the Tampa Bay Rays take on the Boston Red Sox, as assistant coach Marcello Massa knew Rays pitching coach Jim Hickey and was able to get tickets for the entire team... Needed to defeat Notre-Dame-de-Grace in a 9 a.m. game the next day and Easton/Home Run Baker L.L., Talbot County, Md., in an 8 p.m. game to clinch a semifinal berth. This was the first Europe-Middle East-Africa team ever to reach the semifinals in the Senior League Baseball World Series... The team’s ERA of 7.79 was the highest of any team to qualify for the semifinals in a Bangor World Series to date... Opponents were successful on all 30 stolen-base attempts... Tonzar was 11-for-19 at the plate (.579)... Daniele Furlan tied a Bangor World Series record for most stolen bases in a game by a player, when he swiped three in the 13-7 win over Notre-Dame-de-Grace. He shares the record with eight other players...
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