Mexico eliminates Canada from Little League World Series with 7-1 win

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Victor Juarez and three relievers combined to allow one hit and no earned runs and Mexico beat Canada 7-1 on Tuesday in an elimination game of the Little League World Series.

Juarez threw 37 pitches over three innings and struck out seven. Mexico finished with 11 strikeouts and didn't allow a hit until Loreto Siniscalchi's single to lead off the sixth inning.

Jose Angel Leal hit a two-run homer over the trees behind the centre-field wall to give Mexico, a club from San Nicolas, a 3-0 lead in the third. After two singles, Milton Gonzalez sent a shot off the bottom of the outfield wall to extend Mexico's lead to 5-0.

Siniscalchi scored on a fielder's choice in the fourth to pull Canada, a team from Vancouver, British Columbia, to 5-1. But Alejandro Trevino had a RBI double in the fifth and scored on Eduardo Gael Garcia's single to centre field to make it 7-1.

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  Canada's Stefano Dal Sasso collects himself on the mound after giving up a two-run home run to Mexico's Jose Angel Leal during the third inning of an International elimination baseball game at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)