Little League team from San Ramon to play in Game 1 of West Regionals on ESPN3

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KGO) -- It's every young baseball player's dream to play in the Little League World Series and the 11-12-year-old all-stars from San Ramon's Canyon Creek Little Leauge are so close they can taste it.[br /][br /]They begin the final leg of their journey to Williamsport Monday. Canyon Creek earned the right to play after becoming Northern California champions. Their first opponent is a Southern California team.[br /][Ads /][br /]If the San Ramon boys win Monday's game and two more, they're Williamsport-bound.[br /][br /]Even the Oakland A's are cheering them on -- they put a scoreboard message up at the Coliseum.[br /][br /][media ID="2284215" /][br /][br /]In recent history, two Bay Area teams came heartbreakingly close to playing in the series -- Belmont Redwood Shores in 2013, and Pacifica's team in 2014.[br /][Ads /][br /]In the 13-14-year-old age group, the North Oakland-South Oakland Little League all-stars battled their way to the finals of the Junior's Western Regionals -- losing 6 - 0.[br /][br /]If you want to follow the Canyon Creek all-stars, you can watch their games on ESPN3 or the [/url]Watch ESPN app[url HREF="http://www.espn.com/watchespn/apps" TARGET="" REL=""]Watch ESPN app[/url].