Lake Mary All-Stars head home after Little League World Series win

LAKE MARY, Fla. – The Lake Mary All-Stars will arrive back in Central Florida Monday after winning the Little League World Series championship game.

The team rallied to beat Taiwan 2-1 in eight innings and claim the title.

“It was the greatest feeling ever,” said Lake Mary’s Lathan Norton, who scored the winning run. “I still haven’t had time to let it all sink in, but it feels like the most amazing thing ever.”

Lake Mary is planning to host a parade this Saturday, calling it a “once in a lifetime celebration.”

Bryan Nipe, the director of Economic Development, Parks & Recreation, said they’ve been working on this celebration for months.

“We already had our girls softball win states, and we already had some big energy there, and the boys kept going. We knew something big was happening,” Nipe said.

The city says the parade to honor the team, their coaches and families will start at 10 a.m. It will include a procession of vehicles, mascots and a marching band.

This is the first championship in nine tries for Florida, which also came from behind in its 10-7 semifinal win over Texas on Saturday, scoring five runs in its final at-bat.

“We came here to do something. We came here to do a job, and today we accomplished that job,” Florida manager Jonathan Anderson said. “We took a loss to Texas, we battled all the way back and here we are to talk about how we won this whole thing.”

News 6 will stream the parade celebration on Saturday, Aug. 31, live both on air and ClickOrlando.com.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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