Some of the best teams remaining in this year's Little League Softball World Series will take to the field Thursday in the semifinals of the Purple and Orange Brackets.

Overall, the 12 teams will compete in a modified double-elimination format until the championship games, which are single elimination. The games will be shown on ESPN+, ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC.

In the Little League Softball World Series, team North Carolina is living by the phrase, its not how you start, its how you finish. As the defending champions s