Mount Vernon Dream Team!

A crowd gathered at Phillips Park on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the Mount Vernon 12-year-old Little League All-Stars and their Great Lakes Region runner-up finish. Several commendations were presented to the team from Gov. Ted Strickland, State Rep. Thom Collier and the city of Mount Vernon.

“I would like to thank the community for their support,” said Pentz. “We had two teams — the 12-year-olds and the 15-year-olds — step into territory that’s never been stepped in before. I kept telling them, ‘You’re making history, you’re making history, you’re making history,’ and they continued to want to make history. They never wanted to stop, and that’s an awesome way to go out. They were never satisfied with winning the state and just making the regional for the first time. They were never satisfied by winning one game there, and I think that was shown with the 11-inning ballgame that truly could have gone either way. They showed Mount Vernon baseball at its best. I’m extremely proud of them.

“The announcer, after the last game, said, ‘Boys, you may have just played in the greatest game ever played on this field.’ I haven’t watched much baseball in the Great Lakes, but if there is a game that is better than that, I’d like for them to show it to me. I have never seen a youth baseball game better than what we saw there.”

This was taken from the Mount Vernon New Paper Aug 18-2008 it was written by Joe Huddelston.(I called Joe for permission to use this on our family Blog)

One of the boys on the Dream Team was from the Mount Vernon Ward. Way to go Boy's!