LEFFL competed in the USFTL National Championship Tournament

The 3rd grade LEFFL Rock­ets trav­eled to Kissim­mee, FL this past week­end to com­pete in the USFTL National Cham­pi­onship Tour­na­ment. The sin­gle elim­i­na­tion tour­na­ment hosted teams from all over the coun­try as well as sev­eral Florida teams. Saturday’s seed­ing games deter­mined the brack­ets for Sunday’s tour­na­ment play. Unfor­tu­nately for the small Rocket team, the local com­pe­ti­tion proved to be too tough, with the Rock­ets unable to out-run or out-score Florida’s Lit­tle Dol­phins. In a heart­break­ing, game one loss, the Rock­ets took home a sev­enth place finish.

The LEFFL Rock­ets earned their bid to this national tour­na­ment by tak­ing first place at a regional qual­i­fier in Novem­ber, held in Men­tor, Ohio. The team, coached by Jake Jacobs, Craig Ish and Jim Ridener, con­sisted of eight boys: 6 from Oak Har­bor schools and 2 from Lake. The boys logged many hours in prac­tice time as well as fundrais­ing to sup­port their trip to Kissim­mee. Gen­er­ous spon­sors included Walker Fam­ily Funeral Homes, Laub Fam­ily Eye­care, and National Bank of Ohio as well as sev­eral other smaller spon­sors. The team would like to thank every­one who sup­ported them this sea­son, cheer­ing them on at prac­tices, donat­ing gen­er­ously to the fundrais­ing, and wish­ing them luck at every step of the Road to the National Cham­pi­onship. It was a mem­o­rable expe­ri­ence for this young group of boys.

Team Ros­ter: Levi Jacobs, Luke Jacobs, Gan­non Duty, Bre­nen Ish, Jaxon Del­ven­thal, Brady Walle­man, Ryan Ridener, and Tyler Saffran.

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