West O'ahu's thrilling 7-6 victory over Curacao in the Little League World Series championship Sunday will be shown again at 2 p.m. on Friday, according to an Oceanic Time Warner spokesperson.

Nan Shimomura said ESPN Classic will show the game on cable 23 or digital 218.

The demand for a re-broadcast has been extremely high after West O'ahu won the title on a dramatic walk-off homer in the seventh.

West O'ahu also hit a home run for ABC and ESPN, helping boost the event's national television ratings by double digits across the board, a spokesman for the networks said yesterday.

The game on ABC brought a 26 jump in the overnight ratings to 3,194,000 households, according to Mike Humes, a spokesman for the networks.

Humes attributed the rise to "the closeness of the game and the compelling story lines" and the lack of competition from the Olympics, which was held last year at the same time as the World Series.

"It is up from last year which is great and, actually, all of our (ESPN and ESPN2) coverage this year was a double-digit increase across the board which is fantastic," Humes said. Early-round games were shown on ESPN and ESPN2 and averaged between 498,000 and 596,000 households per game.

Ratings specific to Hawai'i were not immediately available.

By way of comparison, that is almost six times as many households that viewed last November's University of Hawai'i football team's comeback win over Michigan State on cable.