BANGOR, Maine — All the way through district, state and regional postseason tournaments, Pearl City went from one extreme to the other.

The games were either nail-biters or blowouts, but the result was always the same: Victory.

Last night's Little League Senior Division (ages 14-16) World Series game was a microcosm of Pearl City's postseason, going from perilous (leading 3-1 despite being outhit 5-2 through the first 3 1/2 innings) to potent (outhitting U.S. South region champ Yorktown, Va., 7-4 in the last 3 1/2 innings).

As usual, the result was the same as Pearl City posted an 8-2 victory to improve to 13-0 in the postseason and 2-0 in the World Series on a clear, but cool night at Mansfield Stadium.

Early defensive miscues by the U.S. West champs gave Yorktown an unearned run and 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but Pearl City came back with a small-ball attack and scored two runs in the bottom of the inning thanks to four walks, two wild pitches, and an RBI single by Bryson Nakamura.

Pearl City would never relinquish the lead as it benefitted from nine walks, three wild pitches, and a hit batter by Yorktown pitchers. The ragged play baffled Yorktown manager Tommy Bayse.

"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 Bayse, whose team is 0-1. "Tonight it seemed like we made all our mistakes in one game and you can't do that against a quality team like Hawai'i."

No, you can't because Pearl City is one of those teams that takes what you give it and capitalizes on it. Ironically, none of its runs were unearned.

"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. "We always try to manufacture some runs."

Pearl City scored again 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 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).

Pearl City plays Regina, Saskatchewan at 2 p.m., Hawai'i time, today.

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.

"He did a good job and kept them off-balance. He had some balls up early and when he did, they hit the ball," Nakamoto said. "We were kind of shaky early on defensively, but fortunately we settled down and so did he."

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

"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 catcher Tanabe, who went 2 for 4 with two singles and two RBIs.