Good Sports: Tulare baseball team wins Cal Ripken World Series

TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Council meetings are typically astir metropolis business, but successful Tulare, this week's gathering started with baseball.

"Tulare is backing america and they're recognizing america for a immense accomplishment that these boys and coaches did," says Tulare 9U All-Stars Coach, Chris Briseno.

The section 9U each prima squad was officially recognized by the metropolis and congressman David Valadao for winning the Cal Ripken World Series successful Alabama.

The boys' postseason tally astir ne'er adjacent happened.

"We weren't expecting to get invited to the World Series," Briseno said.

Briseno says the boys failed to beforehand aft taking 3rd astatine the authorities tournament.

The league commissioner saw thing special, giving the squad an at-large bid to compete.

"He offered that aft the tournament, said we person a bully shot nine and could vie with the champion of him," Briseno said.

Now came the hard portion - backing a radical of coaches and 12 players to alert crossed the country.

"We had a period to get each these boys flights, hotels," Briseno said.

With the assistance of fundraisers and section sponsorships, the boys raised $40,000 to publication their mode to Alabama.

"Seeing the contention there, I knew they could vie with anybody there," Briseno said.

The boys went 3-1 successful excavation play, needing a walk-off triumph successful the semifinals to marque it to the title game.

"Definitely the nighttime before, it's hard to sleep," Briseno said.

"We fought our butts disconnected retired there," says subordinate Caleb Pedro.

The boys would headdress disconnected the tally with a decisive 5-1 triumph implicit the Bahamas.

While Tulare's assembly preps for different matters of metropolis business, the boys' apical docket point is clear: to triumph the satellite bid successful Indiana.

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