LIttle League: Walpole Nationals roll past foes into District 11 title game
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Kelley Field in Norwood was not named for Andrew Kelley, but it might as well have been.
In two games in which the Walpole National 12-year-old Little League team dominated both Hopkinton and the Norwood Americans this week, Kelley was completely dominant.
He started the tourney by cruising on the mound through a 9-1 shellacking of Hopkinton in the District 11 tourney opener, adding a two-one homer as an exclamation point to his performance.
While the Major League home run derby ended Monday night in St. Louis, Kelley’s didn’t. He helped put the Nationals in the title game against the Walpole Americans with two more round-trippers Tuesday, pacing a 14-0 rout of the Norwood Americans that ended in the fourth inning of a mercy-rule ended game.
The Nationals made it look too easy as they trampled the opposition by a combined 23-1.
“They’re flying high; they’re one of the most confident bunches I’ve ever coached,” offered mentor Brian …

