Day 5 began with a United States bracket game between Washington (Northwest region) and Massachusetts (New England). Bonney Lake, Washington edged Braintree, Massachusetts 3-2 to keep their championship hopes alive. Elsewhere, Canada scored a blowout win in the International bracket, routing Australia 12-0 in five innings.

Before Friday night, Little League teams from Hawaii had only lost one game in the Little League World Series and the Honolulu program that Fairfield National would be playing had won two