LYNN – Nahant’s Ryan Desmarais’ playing in the District 16 Little League tournament is truly an improbable story.After suffering a broken femur during football season, Desmarais missed over half the Little League regular season. It took a special waiver granted by Little League’s Eastern Regional office in Bristol, CT to allow Desmarais to become an all-star and though not at full strength yet, he pretty much stole the show on Monday at Pine Hill’s Chris Spagnoli Field.Desmarais struck out 11 in 5 1/3 innings of work against Lynn Shore and also went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI at the plate as Nahant stayed alive in the losers’ bracket thanks to a 12-1 win over Shore in an elimination game.Click here for a photo gallery.”Ryan still isn’t at 100 percent,” Nahant manager Joe Marini said. “But he was getting stronger and stronger as the game went on and he seemed to be in control.”The only inning Desmarais struggled in was the first, when he needed 27 pitches to get out of trouble by striking out the side around two walks. After that, Shore struggled mightily as the righty struck out at least one batter in every inning.Fortunately for Nahant, Desmarais was on his game pitching, because the Nahant offense was slow in starting against Shore starter Carlos Perez.Desmarais got the game’s first hit with a leadoff double in the second and went to third on a wild pitch. Al Wallach followed with a grounder to Elvis Robles at first, who stepped on the bag and threw home to get Desmarais trying to score on the back end.Shore failed to score in its half of the second before Nahant finally got the scoring started in the third.No. 9 batter Peter Doyle drew a leadoff walk before speedy Seth Harrell bunted for the game’s first hit. A wild pitch moved both runners up a base before Jackson Allard walked to load the bases.Shea Nugent followed with a popup to second before Matt Gooding walked, bringing Doyle across for a 1-0 lead. Desmarais ripped a single to left, scoring Harrell and Allard to increase the gap to 3-0.”That hit Desmarais got kind of told the boys that we could hit these guys,” Marini said.Perez got Shore’s first hit in the third when he singled to right with two outs. But Desmarais whiffed Tommy Sanchez to strike out the side for a second time in the game.Nahant added another run in the fourth when Brian Fitzpatrick walked and later scored on a Harrell fielder’s choice. One inning later, the dam finally broke.In the fifth, Nahant would send 10 batters to the plate, scoring six runs against the Shore bullpen.Gooding walked and pinch runner Josh LeBlanc went to third on Desmarais’ single up the middle. A wild pitch scored Gooding before J.P. Reihling walked.Walks to Fitzpatrick and Doyle reloaded the bases before Desmarais scored on a wild pitch. An infield single from Allard scored Rehling before Nugent doubled home two more runs to make it 10-0.Desmarais got the first two Shore batters in the bottom of the fifth before Robles doubled and Perez singled to keep the game going. Nahant tacked on two more runs in the sixth and Desmarais exited to a rousing ovation after striking out Jean DeLeon to begin the bottom of the sixth.Reliever Corey Bleau got the next two batters to polish off the win.