For any team, navigating through the loser bracket of a double-elimination tournament is always hard. Day after day, the pressure is on to claw your way back into contention.
The Stafford Little League 12-year-old all-star baseball team didn’t succumb to the pressure during the Section 4 tournament, but, rather, embraced it, digging down deep to make something out of nothing.
“Nobody picked us to be here after we lost last Friday,” said manager Bruce Kelly, whose squad forced an if-necessary game…
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