Good Sports: Fresno little league team prepping for World Series

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Out astatine Fig Garden Elementary, Bullard's 11-and-under squad is going done last preps for the World Series.

"So amazed that I'm taking a level to the different broadside of the country," says Dominic Hall.

In August, the boys volition play for the Cal Ripken World Series much than 2,000 miles distant from home.

"We volition beryllium the lone squad from California represented," says James Hall, Dominic's dad.

They'll rep the authorities successful Florence, Alabama.

"I person nary idea," says Warner Gibbs erstwhile asked if helium knew wherever Alabama was connected a map.

Helping the boys get close is idiosyncratic who knows a happening oregon 2 astir traveling for games.

Anthony McCoy is simply a Bullard grad who went connected to play 4 years successful the NFL. The choky extremity won Super Bowl 48 with the Seattle Seahawks.

"All the kids, him and his friends, look to similar this athletics much and look to beryllium amended astatine it too, being invited to a World Series and all," helium said.

Coach McCoy is helping this year's squad connected and disconnected the field.

"Helping the kids turn arsenic shot players, but past besides arsenic young men," helium said.

One of those lessons is connected hydration.

It's a acquisition that helped successful the triumph of the play successful a nine-inning crippled against Tulare.

"As acold arsenic the hydration, they're up there," McCoy said. "Now, arsenic acold arsenic the eating, I mean, that's tough. How are you going to crook Wingstop down?"

A squad that's been unneurotic for the past 3 years, it's the furthest immoderate Bullard squad has precocious successful 20 years.

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