Meghan Sims of the Owensboro South Little League from Owensboro, Ky. and Alexandra Bellini of the East Nepean Little League from Ontario, Ottawa, Canada, become the 11th and 12th females to participate in the Williamsport classic.
While Bellini has, for the most part, stayed under the radar,
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…Sims has become wildly popular since her team advanced to the pinnacle of youth sports.
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Megan took to baseball at age five, when she began playing Tee Ball.
“I have an older cousin named Mason Head who I always followed around,” she said. “He started playing baseball, so I wanted to play too.”
What makes Sims’ story so intriguing to her rapidly growing fan base is that she is not a novelty on the all-star team, she is one of Owenboro’s star players. Through the Great Lakes Regional, the first base-woman was hitting .537 with two home runs and 18 RBI.
Meghan not only dominates at the plate, the five-foot-5 ballplayer also pitches. While there have now been a dozen girls to advance as far as Meghan, only three have every taken the hill for their respective teams in South Williamsport. Victoria Brucker, from San Pedro, California was the first in 1989, and the following year Kelly Craig pitched for Trail, British Columbia, Canada. On Sunday afternoon, Meghan became the third…
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