MANCHESTER — Goffstown Junior Baseball is back on top.

Finally.

Ryan Hall hit a slow sixth-inning roller with the bases loaded that produced a pitcher-infielder collision and the state title-clinching run Sunday at Precourt Park. Cam Bond beat the throw home to give Goffstown's 11- and 12-year-old Little League all-stars a pressure-packed 2-1 win over Portsmouth.

“I said to myself, ‘Just make contact,'” said Hall, whose swinging bunt answered a game-tying homer by Portsmouth's Jake Randoulph's in the top of the sixth. “I was so hyped when I did it.”

Hall wasn't alone. Goffstown's all-stars stormed home plate to celebrate their best-of-three series sweep. They became the first District I champion to win Games 1 and 2 since Goffstown's 2000 squad, the program's last to reign supreme in New Hampshire.

Goffstown (7-0) also punched the golden ticket to Bristol, Conn. The calm-under-pressure ballclub opens its New England Regional Tournament slate against Maine's top team on Friday, Aug. 5 at 2 p.m.

“It's a big win for our program, Goffstown Junior Baseball,” Goffstown manager Steve Bond said. “For these kids, it's just a chance of a lifetime.”

Here's the play-by-play: Hall's one-out swinging chopper against a drawn-in infield bounced to the third-base side of the mound. Pitcher David Feals and shortstop Sammy Grattan collided while trying to scoop the grounder.

Grattan quickly bounced up, clutched the ball and fired home. But Bond was already popping up from his slide.

“Nobody really hollered for it. I think they both felt they were going to grab it,” said Portsmouth manager Joe Arsenault, whose team lost Game 1 Saturday night, 3-2. “It's tough to lose (the series) on that one, but those things happen. Those are the breaks you need to move on.”

Goffstown's Nate Proulx was nothing short of sensational on the mound. The lefthander's complete game included six strikeouts.

Proulx's changeup and curveball clearly kept batters off-balance. The 78-pitch masterpiece included three 1-2-3 frames and seven straight defensive outs in the early innings. He allowed just six hits.

The lefty nearly made Colby St. Pierre's third-inning homer stand. But Randoulph hammered Proulx's 66th pitch.

Portsmouth's No. 2 hitter belted a blast that Mickey Bridgeman tracked to deep center field.

Bridgeman made a bid to rob Randoulph of the homer. But the center fielder said he mistimed his leap.

“I just jumped ,hoping for the best,” Bridgeman said.

Like Proulx, Feals (five hits, seven strikeouts, 81 pitches) was also fantastic. But the hard-throwing lefty found himself in a bases-loaded jam minutes after Randoulph tied the contest.

Infield errors and Bridgeman's base hit loaded the bags with nobody out. Feals notched his final strikeout before Hall's dribbler denied Portsmouth (10-2) a championship three-peat.

“Joe Arsenault's been down (to Bristol) twice with previous teams. He said it's the Disney Land of baseball,” Steve Bond said. “These kids are going to have the time of their lives.”