ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Dr. Phillips Little League Senior Softball All-Stars are heading to the Regional Tournament after sweeping the Florida State Tournament.<\/p>\n
The excitement is building as the players prepare to take their Central Florida pride to Tennessee, while keeping their focus on one game at a time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so excited… such a special group of girls,\u201d said Abby Shoemaker, a player. \u201cAnd it\u2019s so much fun just to see how we\u2019re all improving and we\u2019re all getting to know each other more and more every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shoemaker says every hit, every practice and every game has led them to this moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always in the right mindset. We always stay confident and ready to do whatever we need to do to win the game. And then, you know, hopefully you guys go to the World Series,\u201d said Shoemaker.<\/p>\n
The Dr. Phillips Little League Senior Softball All-Star team is made up of players ages 13 to 16 from Dr. Phillips, Olympia and Lake Buena Vista High School.<\/p>\n
During the school year, they\u2019re competitors on opposite sides of the field, but now they\u2019ve put those rivalries aside to chase one common goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the plan is never to think anything other than we\u2019re going to be trying to make a run for the World Series, but you try to keep your focus on one game at a time,\u201d said Michael Roy, the team\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n
Roy says getting to this point didn\u2019t happen overnight. He says the team has worked hard, making a name for themselves and opening up new beginnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe this is the very first state title for Doctor Phelps Little League for any of our softball teams. So it\u2019s an extreme honor to be able to be part of that,\u201d said Roy.<\/p>\n
The team is heading to Clarksville, Tennessee, and their first game is Friday. They\u2019ll take on a team from West Virginia as they begin their regional tournament run with hopes of advancing to the World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Dr. Phillips Little League Senior Softball All-Stars are heading to the Regional Tournament after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1747,1238,6507,115,1335,139,141,140,110,1237,835],"class_list":["post-345848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-high-school-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-ashley-engle","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}