MARIANNA, Fl. (WTXL) - The Chipola Indian baseball team lost eleven guys from last year's National Championship squad. They returned just five, but their fight, it never quit.
Saturday night, after winning six straight elimination games, the Indians celebrated again, as they captured their second National title in a row.
The Indians returned to Marianna with hardware on Monday to a large amount of friends, family and fans.
The guys, all smiles and rightfully so, noting this win feels pretty good.
"Can't say enough about our kids," said head coach Jeff Johnson. "They had the will to win and they get off the floor when they were knocked down and they just refused to lose. All the characteristics as a coach you try to teach kids to have and in life as well, but these kids had it."
"It means everything, this is what we came here to do," said pitcher Chase Forester, a Wakulla High School graduate. "There's no other reason to come here besides winning a National Championship and we did that, back to back. We've really realized just how much it means to win the whole thing, it doesn't get any better, not at all."
The National Championship is Chipola's third, as they won their first in 2007.
