Naamans downed Milton, 4-1, to capture the state title in Major League baseball on Saturday night.

The state championship was the first since 2006 for the Little League north of Wilmington.

Naamans advances to the our-team Mid-Atlantic Regional, which starts on August 7 in Bristol, Conn. Naamans is one of only two Delaware leagues to reach the Little Leagu Williamsport, Pa., making it in 2003.

Naamans went 2-0 in the state tourney, out-scoring its opponents 16-1. It’s the third straight season that a District II squad won the state championship.

Milton, which won three state titles between 2016-18, went 1-2 in the tournament.

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MOT 12, Canal 9: The District I champions completed their climb out of the losers’ bracket to win the state title on Saturday.

The Middletown-area squad won three straight games to earn a spot in the Eastern Regional. That tourney begins on Aug. 5 in Cranston, R.I.

On Saturday, MOT rallied from a 7-3 deficit in the top of the sixth before winning the game in seven innings.

In the sixth, Kyle Bailey’s two-run double tied the game at 7-7. Billy Windley and Tripp Harding also had RBI in the comeback.

MOT answered with five more runs in the seventh. Harding’s three-run double put MOT ahead to stay with Bailey adding a run-scoring double.

Canal came back with two runs in the bottom of the seventh before reliver Liem Fitzgerald closed out the victory.

Harding and Bailey combining for seven of MOT’s 13 hits with 10 RBI.