Charlie Ganote allowed just one run over 4-2/3 innings and collected four hits to lead his Capitol City Little League all-star team to a 7-2 win over Capitol Hill Little League in the District of Columbia championship game at the Fort Lincoln Baseball Complex in Northwest Washington.

Ganote struck out eight batters in the game, and scattered three hits. He pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the bottom of the first inning, then did not allow another baserunner until a leadoff single in the fifth. By that point, Capitol City had built a 7-0 advantage.

Ganote drove in runs during each of the innings that produced runs for Capitol City. In the top of the first inning, Amrtya Eswaren-King reached on an error, then Ganote tripled to right field to open the scoring. In the third, he followed Eswaren-King's one-out single with a double to center that gave Capitol City a 2-0 advantage.

Capitol City pulled away in the fifth. Ronan Larkin opened the inning with a seven-pitch walk, then David Michel Jefferson doubled to center. After a pitching change, Eswaren-King singled to right to drive in a run, and Ganote followed with a single that scored Jefferson.

Two more runs scored later in the inning when Nico Engvall reached on an error, and Jeremy Jensen also scored following Brendan Quinn's single.

Chance Legere drove in Capitol Hill's runs with a two-run triple to right in the fifth, before Eswaren-King closed out the win and sealed Capitol City's 23rd District of Columbia championship.

Capitol City won all seven of its games at the District's championship tournament, while Capitol Hill's only two losses were to Capitol City. Two of Capitol Hill's wins were close decisions over defending District champion Northwest Washington Little League, with Capitol Hill edging Northwest Washington 6-4 in round robin competition, and then eliminating them from the tournament with a 3-0 semifinal round win.

The second of these wins lifted Capitol Hill into the DC championship game for the first time in the league's history, and ensured that the title game matchup would involve a team other than Capitol City and Northwest Washington, who have met for the District championship in every year since 2006.

Three pitchers combined for a two-hit shutout in Capitol Hill's semifinal round win over Northwest Washington. Solomon Redo permitted one hit over the first two innings before giving way at 35 pitches to Will Lukken, and Lukken followed with three hitless innings. Legere closed out the win with a scoreless sixth.

Capitol Hill scored all of its runs in the fourth inning. Luca Christiansen opened the inning with a single to left field, and Adam Uppuluri followed with a single. Kai Leckszas followed with a double that plated Christiansen, and both Uppuluri and Leckszas scored on a subsequent double that capped the scoring.

Capitol City reached the title game following a 17-5 victory over Banneker City Little League in the other semifinal. Capitol City jumped to a 7-0 lead after one inning, but Banneker closed the gap with five runs of its own in the top of the second. Capitol Hill staved off the challenge, though, scoring six runs of its own in the bottom of the second and then ending the game when a four-run burst in the bottom of the fourth pushed their lead to a double-digit margin.

Capitol City scored 16 or more runs in four of its five round robin victories, with the outlier being a 5-4 win over Capitol Hill on the tournament's fourth day. Jefferson collected four hits and two runs batted in for Capitol City, and his single to center field sparked a first inning rally. Wesley Hogan added two hits and a pair of runs scored.

Capitol Hill's runs came on a solo home run in the fourth and a three-run shot in the fifth.