Northern Nevada will have two representatives, a boy and a girl, on the national stage in the Little League Home Run Derby on Friday afternoon.

The Little League Home Run Derby will be televised on ESPN at 4 p.m. Pacific.

Aubrey Frederito, who plays softball with Washoe Little League in Reno, and Landon Parise, who plays baseball in Centennial Little League in Sparks, each advanced to the finals in the Little League Home Run Derby Championship by being in the top four finishers in their respective Regional Finals during the MLB All-Star Weekend Festivities in Atlanta.

Parise will be in seventh grade at Mendive Middle School and Frederito will be in eighth grade at Marce Herz. She plans to play softball at Galena.

Her mother, Jenny Frederito, said Aubrey, 12, is good at every sport she

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