District 29 Championship Medal
...p. This all happened when I was 12 and 13 years old. That summer my town put together an all-star team to compete in the 12 year old Little League World Series. This is the Little League World Series held on ESPN throughout the summer months and is participated in by teams from all over the world. As the team was picked I was confident in our chances of making it all the way to Williamsport, Pennsylvania where the finals are held. We had many practices to prepare ourselves for the pressure filled games. By the time our first game came, we were ready to play. The first game was against Mineola. We won 11-0 and it seemed we would never look back. But after defeating New Hyde Park 8-1, we hit our first bump in the road to Williamsport. We lost to Garden City South 4-3, which knocked us down into the loser’s bracket. This mean that another loss would eliminate us from the tournament and the dream would be over. But that didn’t stop us. We kept rolling and won 3 games in a row to reach the championship game for our district. As fate would have it, we had to play Garden City South and because they were coming out of the winner’s bracket with no losses, we had to beat them twice in order to win the district. The first game we won easily 12-2, which made us believe that we had the next game in the bag. But it was obvious that we didn’t when we found ourselves in a 6-0 whole a...