Clarendon Hills team guaranteed it would not come home from the Little League World Series without a victory by defeating the Mid-Atlantic Region/Pennsylvania State champion 3-2 Saturday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

An estimated 20,000 people were in attendance, many to support the team from their home state.

The pressure was on both teams, as losses in the opening round meant Saturday’s game was an elimination contest in the double-elimination tournament.

Clarendon Hills scored all three of its runs in the bottom of the third inning. Pennsylvania came back with two runs in the top of the fourth, but Brody Herold, who pitched the entire game for Clarendon Hills, shut the door the rest of the way.

Pennsylvania made things especially interesting in the top of the sixth when it used a

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