BANGOR – The scoreboard pretty much told the story for Monday night’s Senior League World Series game between South regional champ Yorktown, Va., and West champ Pearl City, Hawaii.

After the third inning, Yorktown was outhitting Pearl City 4-2 but was trailing 3-1.

Pearl City used the small-ball attack in textbook fashion, taking advantage of nine walks, three wild pitches, and an error to fashion an 8-2 victory over Yorktown.

“It seemed like through state and region play, we didn’t make any mistakes. Our fielding was great. Our hitting was great… pitching, baserunning, everything,” said Yorktown manager Tommy Bayse. “Tonight, it seemed like we made all our mistakes in one game and you can’t do that against a quality team like Hawaii.”

No, you can’t… Especially when Hawaii is one of those teams that takes what you give it and capitalizes on it. Ironically, none of Pearl City’s runs were unearned and the hits total was even with nine for each team.

“They have good pitching and threw the ball hard. Luckily, we got the walks and that helped us with the small ball,” said Pearl City manager Gary Nakamoto, whose unbeaten club is now 2-0 in the Series and 13-0 overall. “We always try to manufacture some runs.”

The construction started in the first inning. After spotting Yorktown a 1-0 lead courtesy of an unearned run on two errors in the first inning, Hawaii reached on back-to-back walks to start its half of the inning. Bryan Nakamura delivered a one-out RBI single to left and the other run came via two wild pitches.

Hawaii never trailed again as they scored another run without a hit in the second (two walks, a wild pitch, two steals, and an RBI fielder’s choice), two in the fourth (one-out error followed by a single, walk, hit batter, and two-out RBI single by Jeffrey Domingo), one in the fifth (Kurt Poentis leadoff single, steal, and two-out RBI single by catcher Carlton Tanabe), and two more in the sixth (two-run, two-out double by Rorry Nakayama after a one-out single by Nainoa Tampos and walk to Duane Kiyota).

Yorktown (0-1) takes on the Makati City, Philippines, today at 5 p.m. and Hawaii meets Regina, Saskatchewan, at 8 p.m.

Nakamura shook off his team’s early defensive miscues (three errors in the first two innings) to go the distance and allow just one earned run.

“Early on his pitches were higher and he was hanging a lot of stuff, but once he got the balls down, it was harder for them to hit,” said Tanabe.

Nakamura had four strikeouts and just one walk while throwing 87 pitches.

“We got nine hits on him, but it seemed like we couldn’t get that big hit on him,” said Bayse.

Cody Brown led Yorktown with three singles in three at-bats while Adam McConnell (two singles) and Evan Yeo (triple, single) had two hits apiece.

“We have some battlers on this team and now we’ve got to bounce back and show the heart of a champion,” said Bayse. “I think we’ll step it up and win the next three games. I really do.”

U.S. WEST 8, U.S. SOUTH 2

Yorktown, Va. (0-1) Pearl City, Hawaii (2-0)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Wagner 3 1 1 0 Nakayama, cf 3 1 2

McConnel, ss 4 0 2 1 Acosta, ss-1b 4 2 0

Guy, 1b 3 0 1 0 Tanabe, c 4 1 2

Hawkins, rf 3 0 0 0 Nakamura, p 3 0 1

Dent, rf 0 0 0 0 Casarez, 2b 2 0 1

Everhart, c 3 0 0 0 Abreu, 3b-ss 2 0 0

Brown, 3b-p 3 0 3 0 Sugitaya, 3b-2b 1 0 0

Hornsby, p 0 0 0 0 Domingo, 1b 2 0 1

Bayse, p-3b 3 0 0 0 Tampos, 1b-3b 1 1 0

Yeo, lf 3 1 2 0 Kiyota, rf 3 1 0

Maldonado, cf 3 0 0 0 Poentis, lf 1 0

Namba 2 0 0 0

Totals 28 2 9 1 Totals 28 8 9 7

Virginia 100 000 1 – 2

Hawaii 210 212 x – 8

E-Wagner; Nakayama, Casarez 2; LOB-Virginia 7, Hawaii 12; 2B-Nakayama; 3B-Yeo; S-Guy; SB-Nakayama; Poentis 2

Virginia IP H R ER BB SO

Bayse (L, 0-1) 1 1 3 3 5 0

Brown 5 8 5 3 4 5

Hawaii IP H R ER BB SO

Nakamura (W, 1-0) 7 9 2 1 1 4

Bayse faced one batter in 2nd

HBP-Casarez (by Brown); WP-Brown; Bayse 2; T-2:09; ATT-500