the second round.The top seeds saw off the American duo 6-4

More than 200 players on 16 teams representing eight different states, eight countries and four continents, came to South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the 2016 Little League World Series.They came here seeking glory on the baseball diamond, but for many of the players, some of the most fun theyve had over the 10-day tournament has been around a pingpong table or in the pool.The Grove is the melting-pot residential complex where all 215 players and their coaches stay in Williamsport and where languages and culture mix. Its a place where kids like Curacaos Nair Jamanika, above, cut can loose, make new friends and share the international language of baseball with players from all over the world.This Little League World Series has become a seriously big event, no doubt. During the downtime between games, we found a bunch of 11-, 12- and 13-year-olds acting like, well, kids.Bugsy Jensen, 12, diving, and Oregon teammate Evan Ullman, 13, cooled off between games at the Groves pool -- under the watchful eye of several lifeguards.Five-time MLB All Star Torii Hunter -- a former Little Leaguer in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who was enshrined in the Little League Hall of Excellence Wednesday night -- met with players in the rec center and encouraged them to enjoy the moment.Panamas Harrison Castillo found that playing Fast and Furious with some new friends was a good way to blow off steam. The Groves rec room features arcade games, an air hockey table and a flat-screen TV.Rhode Islands Cullen McGrew, left, and Thane Denton, center, took part in another treasured LLWS tradition -- trading pins -- with Oregons Joe Schutz.The pingpong table was a popular meeting spot among players from every country, where a game called Runaround, in which three or more players would take turns serving and moving around the table trying to keep the point alive, was all the rage.You can take a ballplayer off the baseball field, but you cant take the baseball away from him for long. The pool was another popular place to have a catch.Players eat all their meals in the Groves cafeteria, where meals can range from spaghetti and meatballs to sloppy Joes. Theres a strict no-hat policy.Each U.S. team shares a floor with an international squad. The Iowa players got a good-luck sendoff from their dorm-mates before their game against Kentucky.Players like Tennessees Ethan Jackson, left, found time to have fun on the field too.Teammates greeted Mexicos San Nicolas players with fist bumps as they came off the field during their game with South Korea.At the beginning and end of each game, South Koreas players lined up along the third base line and bowed to the opposing team and its fans.Future LLWS stars? Eight-year-old Hudson Nottmeier, left, and Bryson Moore, 9, came all the way from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to cheer on the Great Lakes team during its game against Goodlettsville, Tennessee.Mexico rebounded from a loss to Panama in its first game to reach the international semi-final, where it lost to South Korea.Tennessees Jon Luke Simmons hurried out to the field after the final out in his teams win over Kentucky -- which sent Goodlettsville to the U.S championship -- to secure the game ball.After his team was eliminated by South Korea, Fabian Alejandro Mar and his San Nicolas teammates scooped up dirt from the field to take home as a souvenir.Tennessees R.J. Moore and South Koreas Min Ho Choi exchanged high-fives during their off-day trip to the Lycoming Mall.Min Ho Choi and his teammate Juhnyeok Lee, left, fished for prizes in the crane game at the mall.Then they surveyed their snack options in the food court.They capped off the trip by playing MotoGP in the arcade.Canadas Nicola Barba, Victor Lizarraga and Loreto Siniscalchi shared a laugh with Californias Ali Camarillo and Devin Hinojosa at a Williamsport High School football game.Throughout the week, players were treated like celebrities wherever they went in Williamsport.They made friends with locals like Mallory Pardoe, 12.Finally, they paused to reflect on a memorable week. Hydro Flask 32 OZ . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at . Hydro Flask Vattenflaska . Scott won the Australian PGA last week in his first event in Australia since winning the U.S. Masters in April. American Matt Kuchar, ahead by two strokes with four to play and even with Scott with one to go, double-bogeyed the 18th after taking two shots to get out of a bunker. http://www.sverigehydroflask.com/ . Barcelonas entertaining victory ensured the defending Spanish champions retained their share of the league lead with Atletico Madrid two rounds ahead of their meeting in the capital. Real Madrid needed a late goal by substitute Jese Rodriguez to earn a 3-2 victory at Valencia to stay in third place and three points behind its title rivals. Hydro Flask Kaffe . The incident occurred at 19:56 of the second period of the Kings 4-2 road win over Edmonton on Sunday. Nolan punched Oilers forward Jesse Joensuu in the jaw in front of the Kings goal during a scrum. Hydro Flask Sverige . Robinson finished with 17 points, all but two in the second half, and Lawson had 14 after halftime and finished with a game-high 11 assists as the Nuggets handed Dallas its first home loss in eight games this season. J.J. Hickson led Denver with 22, and Kenneth Faried added 10 points and 10 rebounds. Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna crashed out from the US Open mens doubles competition as Sania Mirza progressed in the mixed doubles event with her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig on Friday.?Leander Paes and Andre Begemann lost 6-2, 5-7, 4-6 to Stephane Robert (France) and Dudi Sela (Israel) in the first round of the mens doubles in just under two hours.Paes and Begemann started their encounter in a resounding manner with two service breaks in the first and fifth game to grab the first set at 6-2.Enjoying a service break in the second set as well, the Indo-German pair looked like serving out at 5-4 before Sela and Roberts got a break back in the 10th game while getting another break in the 12th game to win the set 7-5.Two days ago, Paes and Martina Hingis had won their first round mixed doubles match at the US Open.Sania - Dodig advanceLater on Friday, Sania Mirza and her mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig beat Taylor Townsend and Donald Young reach the second round.The top seeds saw off the American duo 6-4, 6-4, giving Mirza her second victory this week at Flushing Meadows after her openingg womens doubles win with Barbora Strycova.dddddddddddd.Bopanna bows out of mens doubles, advances in mixedThere was disappointment for Rohan Bopanna, though, who crashed out of the mens doubles with Danish partner Frederik Nielsen. The pair lost 6-2, 7-5 to Brian Baker and Marcus Daniell in the second round.The Indo-Danish pair were broken twice before they conceded the first set 6-2.It was turning out to be a cakewalk for the Kiwi-US pair as they were ready to serve for the match at 5-3 before Bopanna and Nielsen broke back to make it 5-5 raising visions of a fightback.With the help of a mini-break, Bopanna and Nielsen were up 3-0 in the tie-breaker only to commit lot of unforced errors before eventually losing the match in 74 minutes.However, Bopanna who also played his mixed doubles first round match later in the evening alongside Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski beat US pair of Noah Rubin and Jamie Loeb 7-5 6-4 in 67 minutes to advance to the second round.? ' ' '