By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

After getting off to an impressive 3-0 win-loss record in the first three days of competition, Freedom Farm Baseball League suffered two consecutive losses, but they have clinched a berth into the playoffs despite having to play one more game today on the final day of competition at the Caribbean Regional Qualifying Tournament for the Little League World Series.

Yesterday at the Quintin Hernandez Park in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, the Freedom Farm team got beat 7-4 by Puerto Rico in the first game. Freedom Farm came right back and got nipped 10-9 by Curacao. The two losses dropped the Bahamas representatives to 3-2 for fourth place.

Freedom Farm, managed by Greg Burrows Jr, will play their final game at 10am today against Aruba.

Aruba, now 3-1, will play their final game at 1pm against Puerto Rico’s top team that is leading the standings at 5-0.

Puerto Rico also has another team playing, but they are winless at 0-5 and will complete the round robin today at 4 pm against Curacao, who is in second place at 3-1.

The top four teams will clinch their berths in the playoffs scheduled for 10am Thursday between the first and fourth place teams.

The second and third place teams will meet at 1pm. The two winners will go on to play in the championship game on Friday at 1 pm.

The two losers will clash in the third place game at 10 am.

From the championship game, the winner will go on to represent the Caribbean at the 2018 World Series all set for August 16-26 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

On the first day of the qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas nipped the Dominican Republic 3-2 on Saturday.

They came back on Sunday and knocked off Puerto Rico 10-3 before they earned a 13-2 rout over the United States Virgin Islands on Monday to roll off a 3-0 record before they went on the two-game losing streak.

Freedom Farm earned the rights to represent the Bahamas after they were declared the winner of the Bahamas Baseball Association’s National Championships that was played recently at the Emera Baseball Stadium in Grand Bahama.