Tri Valley Babe Ruth 15 Year Old All Stars Make History with 3 consecutive National Championships.

Tri Valley Babe Ruth 15's Make History

Tri Valley Babe Ruth has a long
tradition of excellence on the baseball field stretching close to three decades, but this year's 15 year old all star team accomplished something never been done before in the entire 66 year history of Babe Ruth baseball. The team, that plays their regular season in Dublin on Camp Parks US army reserve base, won a third consecutive national championship.

Two years ago, the boys won the 13 year old World Series in Jamestown, New York. Last year they won the 14 year old World Series in Westfield, Massachusetts. Thursday night, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, they completed the first ever trifecta by winning the 15 year old World Series.

The team, consisting of 12 Pleasanton boys and 1 San Ramon boy finished this summer with a 16-1 record. The team's overall record the last three summers is 45-3: which includes an impressive 3 Northern California State championships, 3 Pacific Southwest Regional Championships and 3 National Championships.

Remarkable, amazing, and relentless are just a few words that describe this dedicated group of teenage athletes. On August 8th, when most of the local youth were preparing for a new school year, Tri Valley flew to Tennessee in attempt to complete the unmatched goal.

With a target on their back, TVBR played four pool play games and although nothing came easy, they finished with four wins. 5-4 over Newton, Connecticut. 9-1 over Marshall County, Tennessee. 4-2 over West Windsor, New Jersey and 5-3 over Sarasota, Florida. Earning a top seed in the National division gave TVBR a bye and then they had a rematch with Sarasota in the semi-finals. Losing 4-2, with three outs remaining, the gritty Californians scored three 7th inning runs before Florida could record a single out and walked off with a post midnight, stressful, and somewhat miraculous, 5-4 victory.

On Aug 17th, Championship night, several thousand Tennessee fans, decked out in the burnt orange, showed up to Bobby Brewer field to watch their beloved Lawrenceburg team try to avenge a 2015 title game loss to Southern, CA. However, as fate would have it, the "battle tested" Bay Area boys prevailed with another hard fought, 4-3 championship game win.

As hats and gloves flew and tired legs jumped with jubuliant energy, the boys proclaimed, "We did it. We made history. We're the first and only team to 3pete"

This year's team had six boys on all three championship teams: Josh Anderson, Joey Battilega, Evan Chevalier, Trevor Jackson, Jaden Sheppard, and Cory Steinhauer. Three boys have been on two of the teams: Demetre Aaron, Luke Palfalvi, and Troy Nassar. And the four key new additions this year were: Shane Cancilla, Brad Couture, Patrick Gallagher, and Matt Sugden. The Coaches are Tony Battilega, Mark Palfalvi and Scott Sugden.

Special honors in this year's World Series went to: MVP - Jaden Sheppard . All World Series - Shane Cancilla, Luke Palfalvi, Matt Sugden. Gold Glove - Josh Anderson