Little League World Series 2018: Saturday Scores, Bracket Results and Highlights

The 2018 Little League World Series reached Day 3 on Saturday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and with it, came four more games featuring teams from around the world.

Friday's action saw the West beat the Southeast in the longest contest (11 innings) in tournament history. And the drama only grew as the action moved into the weekend—even if Mother Nature tried to put a damper on things. 

Heading into Day 3, the stakes grew as teams attempted to keep their championship hopes alive. All four Saturday showdowns were must-win battles. Here's a look at how the action played out.

2018 LLWS Schedule/Results, Aug. 18

Caribbean (1-1) 6, Australia (0-2) 0

Midwest (1-1) 9, New England (0-2) 5

Canada (1-1) 2, Europe-Africa (0-2) 1

Southeast (1-1) 3, Northwest (0-2) 0

2018 LLWS Bracket

Full bracket results available at LittleLeague.org.

Caribbean 6, Australia 0

After a lengthy weather delay to start the day, the team from Guayama, Puerto Rico, pulled out a 6-0 victory over Australia on Saturday.

The squads exchanged scoreless frames for the first two innings, and then Caribbean grabbed control in the top of the third. Behind the power of three hits and the help of an error, it took a 3-0 lead as the game neared its midway point.

Caribbean added an insurance run in the fourth on a leadoff home run by Eric Rodriguez.

That proved to be more than enough for Caribbean pitcher Yadiel Delgado, who held Australia hitless for the first 3.1 innings. He threw four shutout frames, striking out seven while allowing one hit.

In a losing effort, Australia right fielder Matthew White made a nice diving play in the fifth to keep his team within four runs:

Roberto Joubert (1.0 inning, zero hits, two strikeouts), Luis A. Rivera (0.2 innings, zero hits, two strikeouts) and Luis Diaz (0.1 innings, zero hits) closed out the victory for Caribbean. John Lopez (2-for-4, RBI, two run) and Luis D. Rivera (1-for-3, walk, three RBI) also contributed on offense.

Australia will be back in action in the consolation game Monday at 11 a.m. ET, and Caribbean will follow that contest at 1 p.m. ET.

Midwest 9, New England 5

While the Caribbean-Australia game was one-sided, the showdown between Midwest and New England was a back-and-forth affair.

Midwest jumped out to an early 2-0 cushion, thanks to a pair of one-out doubles. It extended the lead to four with two more in the third.

However, a four-run gap would not be enough.

New England struck back with a two-out rally in the bottom of the third, mixing a walk, a hit batsman, a couple of singles and a pair of errors to grab the lead with a five-run frame. 

But Midwest answered with some two-out magic of its own in the fourth. Four consecutive batters reached base, and all four scored. Just like that, a 4-0 lead turned into a 5-4 deficit and then back to an 8-5 lead.

While New England's bats went silent after the third-inning outburst, Midwest added on late. A leadoff single by Maddox O'Connor and a two-out double by Alex Stewart in the sixth pushed the lead back up to four with three outs to go.

Blake Larson pitched five innings for Midwest, and Connor Duong finished the game with a scoreless sixth.

O'Connor (3-for-3, walk, double, four runs), Stewart (2-for-4, four RBI, run) and Larson (2-for-4, RBI, two runs) led the way on offense for Midwest. Tommy Turner (1-for-3, two RBI, run) and Tyler Simon (1-for-2, run) paced the New England offense.

Midwest will resume its tournament play on Monday at 3 p.m. ET, while New England will face Australia in the consolation bracket on Monday at 11 a.m. ET.

Canada 2, Europe-Africa 1

One day after Hawaii and Georgia equaled the longest game in Little League World Series history, Canada and Spain challenged for that title with a 10-inning thriller at Volunteer Stadium. 

Canada got off to a fast start in the first inning thanks to a wild pitch, but its offense stalled over the ensuing eight frames against a strong Spanish pitching staff. 

Thanks to that proficiency on the mound, Spain held steady and knotted the score at one run apiece in the sixth inning when Lucas Iriarte smashed a solo home run: 

That, however, was the height of Spain's day at the plate. 

Canadian aces Jordan Jaramillo, Zaeden Pleasants and Cole Balkovec combined to twirl 10 innings of five-hit ball, and they rang up a staggering 18 strikeouts. 

Then, in the bottom of the 10th, Joey Marino broke through with his second hit of the day and produced a walk-off single to keep Canada's international-title hopes alive. 

Thanks to those heroics, Canada will return to the diamond Monday for a do-or-die tilt with the loser of Sunday's game between Japan and Mexico. 

Southeast 3, Northwest 0 

It would have been understandable if the Little Leaguers from Peachtree City, Georgia, came out a bit tired considering they lost Friday's late-night, 11-inning slog against Hawaii. 

However, that wasn't the case. 

Instead, the Southeast representatives were dialed in as they shut out Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) Little League behind a pair of sterling pitching performances. 

Tai Peete and Connor Riggs-Soper split mound duties down the middle with three innings apiece, and they flustered Coeur d'Alene's batters to the tune of eight strikeouts, one walk and three total hits allowed. 

At the plate, Peachtree City embraced small ball and received RBI from Chase Fralick, Bo Walker and James Hooper in a balanced effort to set up a meeting with the Southwest or Mid-Atlantic in Monday's nightcap.