WORCESTER, Mass. – West Cumberland, the New Jersey state champion, scored twice in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 6-4 victory and eliminate Maine representative Gray-New Gloucester in the semifinals of the Senior League softball Eastern Regional.

New Jersey went on to defeat Delaware 3-0 and advance to the Senior League World Series in Lower Sussex, Del.

It was the second straight year Gray-New Gloucester made it to the semifinals, this time after going 4-0 in pool play.

“You had five teams that have won the thing, and Maine was right there with all of them,” said Gray-New Gloucester Manager Bill Chapman. “If the ball had bounced one way, we could have been headed to the World Series.”

Emily Pettit started New Jersey’s winning rally with a one-out bunt single. She scored the go-ahead run on a throwing error on Casey Kisielewski’s sacrifice attempt and Kisielewski came home on a squeeze by Katie McCormick.

Gray-New Gloucester got out to a 3-0 lead in the third inning, taking advantage of singles by Maria Valente and Katelyn Tucker, and a pair of New Jersey errors.

West Cumberland got two runs back in the bottom of the third on a double by Lindsay Dwyer, then took the lead in the fifth on a two-run double by her twin sister, Lauren Dwyer.

But Gray-New Gloucester came right back in the sixth, with a Taylor Whaley single and a Maddie Elliott double setting up a tying single by Abby Ordway.

“The kids could have given up but they kept on fighting to the very end,” Chapman said.

Chapman said the team represented Maine well, off the field as well.

“Everyone was commenting on how nice and how good the Maine team was,” he said. “Everywhere we went everybody was rooting for the Maine team.”