With three days off between games, the St. James/Smithtown 12U baseball team has had plenty of time to prepare for Friday’s Little League World Series Metro Region championship game.

The team spent a couple of hours on Wednesday at Breen Field in Bristol, Connecticut, watching as its opponent was determined. Fairfield National (Connecticut) defeated Jackson Holbrook (New Jersey), 3-0, in seven innings and will face St. James/Smithtown at 7 p.m. on Friday. The winner of that game, which will be broadcast on ESPN, will advance to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, beginning on Wednesday.

“That was a crazy game,” manager Scott Santelli said of the Connecticut-New Jersey game. “That was one of the best baseball games I’ve watched. A really good game by two rea

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