Lake Mary All-Stars top Texas, win Little League World Series US championship 10-7

RESULTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD NOW AT 11:00PM. ♪ >> TONIGHT, THE LAKE MARY ALL-STARS ARE THE LITTLE LEAGUE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS. AND THEY ARE JUST ONE GAME AWAY FROM WINNING THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. >> THAT FINAL GAME IS TOMORROW AFTERNOON AGAINST HIGH PAY. BUT FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT TODAY AND HOW FAR THESE BOYS CAME WITH THEIR HUGE COME FROM BEHIND WIN AGAINST TEXAS THIS EVENING. GOOD EVENING TO YOU. I'M ERIK VON ANCKEN. IT'S BEEN A GREAT DAY. OUR BOYS BEAT BOERNE TEXAS 10 TO 7 MAKING THEM THE FIRST CENTRAL FLORIDA LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM TO WIN THE U.S. TITLE AND MORE THAN 2 DECADES. AND OUR CAMERAS BROUGHT YOU THE CELEBRATION AND SOME DANCING LIVE RIGHT AFTER THE WIN. AND WE HAVE BEEN WITH THE TEAM EVER SINCE THEY LANDED IN WILLIAMSPORT 2 WEEKS AGO NEWS 6 ANCHOR JUSTIN WARMOTH EVEN GOT A LOOK AT THIS. HIS HAIR CUT BY A PLAYER'S DAD. JUSTIN, I'M SURE IT'S HARD TO HAVE TO GO TO SLEEP TONIGHT AFTER WINNING A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. BUT THEY KNOW THEY GOT TO DO THIS ALL OVER AGAIN TOMORROW. ONE MORE TIME. >> YEAH, THEY DO WHERE THEY KNOW THAT. THAT'S WHY THEY CAME HERE. YES, THE U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP. WAS A GOAL. BUT COACH SAID TODAY THAT IT WAS NOT THE GOAL. GOAL IS TO WIN IT ALL TO BE THE BEST LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM IN THE ENTIRE WOD. I'LL TELL I'M DOING A LOT BETTER NOW. IT WAS A TIGHT GAME, OBVIOUSLY UP AND DOWN A THRILLING COMEBACK FOR A VOICE FROM LAKE MARY. NOT TO MENTION 28,000 PEOPLE. WE'RE PACKED AT LAMA, THE STADIUM INSIDE THE STADIUM THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE CONCOURSE HERE. DANIEL MACALUSO, MY PHOTOJOURNALIST AND I WERE ACTUALLY PART OF THE FAMILY SECTION. WE SET WITH THE FAMILY SO. THIS ENTIRE TIME. THAT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'VE DONE THAT. AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT'S A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. BUT I'M SO PROUD OF THESE BOYS. I'M SO HAPPY FOR THESE FAMILIES. BUT THE COACH SAID JOB'S NOT DONE. >> A MOMENT, A FEELING A CHAMPIONSHIP THAT WAS EARNED NOT GIVEN FOR THIS TEAM OF 12 YEAR-OLDS FROM LAKE MARY. IT'S MAGICAL WE PREPARED FOR THIS WEEK FORCED FOR THIS. >> THEY COULD. THESE KIDS KNEW THAT IT'S BEEN OUR SUMM. IT'S THAT MOTTO OUR SUMMER THAT'S NOW BECOME THIS TEAM'S IDENTITY AND SATURDAY'S THRILLING COME FROM BEHIND, WIN AGAINST TEXAS IS PROOF THAT THIS TEAM IS A TEAM OF DESTINY. YOU COULDN'T STOP IT. YOU CAN STOP. >> WELL, WHAT WHAT WE BELIEVED WAS INEVITABLE. THIS WAS OUR SUMMER OPPORTUNITY. OUR CHANCE TO TO TO SHOW THE WORLD WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BUT BOY, THAT HE NOT MAKE IT EASY. THEY MAKE IT EASY AT ALL. AFTER BEING DOWN EARLY AGAINST THE ONLY TEAM TO BEAT THEM. NOT JUST IN WILLIAMSPORT. >> BUT ALL SUMMER LAKE MARY CLAWED THEIR WAY BACK SHOWING THE FIGHT THAT TENACITY THE CONFIDENCE WE HAVE SEEN ALL TOURNAMENT LONG. THEY NEVER QUIT. THEY WILL NOT QUIT. THEY WILL NEVER QUIT. >> AGAIN, WITH THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE. WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS ALL AND THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE TO PLAY IN TO GET HERE IS CRAZY. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO WIN WELL, HERE TAKES SO MUCH DEDICATION, SO MUCH HARD WORK AND THESE KIDS ARE REAPING THE BENEFIT FOR THE WORST. TODAY, PUTIN FROM THEIR PARENTS INCHES KNOWING REALLY GET TO HUG MY MOM AFTER THIS BIG MOMENT. >> I LOVE TO THE COMMUNITY. IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE JUST KNOWING THAT EVERYONE SUPPORTING US AND >> GIVING US GOOD LUCK, I THINK IS PART OF A GOOD LOOK TO LIVE OR THESE PLAYERS AND COACHES KNOW THAT THIS TITLE WAS A TOTAL TEAM EFFORT. BUT THEY ALSO KNOW THERE'S STILL WORK TO DO IN WILLIAMSPORT. THEY KNOW JOB'S NOT DONE. BELIEVE ME. THEY NOW. WE DIDN'T COME HERE JUST TO WIN THIS WEEKEND HERE WHEN THIS WHOLE THING. >> AND YOU SAW THE BOYS NODDING RIGHT THERE WHEN JONATHAN ANDERSON WAS TALKING ABOUT THE GOAL AND THERE IS A LOOK AT THAT MATCHUP, CHINESE TAIPEI TAKING OUR BOYS FROM LAKE MARY. 3 O'CLOCK TOMORROW AFTERNOON. I SAID IT ON MONDAY LAKE MARY WAS BEATEN BY THIS TEAM FROM BOERNE TEXAS. I SAID, YOU KNOW, WHO ELSE CAME OUT OF THE ELIMINATION BRACKET AND ONE THE U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP APOPKA LITTLE LEAGUE. WELL, THE BOYS DID THAT IN THE BOYS ARE LOOKING TO TAKE IT ONE MORE STEP BECAUSE NO TEAM EVER FROM FLORIDA HAS WON THE ENTIRE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES. BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THIS TEAM. AND YOU KNOW WHY ERIC? >> JUST A NICE SAID IS SET WITH THE FAMILY FOR THE FIRST TIME. I'D LOVE KNOW WHAT THIS HAS BEEN LIKE FOR YOU. SO SO THEY TRUST YOU IN THIS COVERAGE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT RIGHT. AND IN RETURN, THEY LET YOU WHEN THEY THEY LET YOU GET CLOSE TO THOSE KIDS. THE PARENTS, I KNOW YOU FOR SOME RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE LITTLE GUYS AND THEIR MOMS AND DADS. YOU WERE RIGHT THERE. I MEAN UP THERE WITH THEM WHEN THEY MOVED THE PLAQUE HEART. THE PLACARD UP TONIGHT. >> WAS LIKE? >> YOU KNOW, THIS ENTIRE EXPERIENCE, ERIC HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET. I'M LIVING THROUGH THESE BOYS BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A 12 YEAR-OLD BASEBALL PLAYER. I DON'T KNOW STAGE, OBVIOUSLY. BUT I KNOW S WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A BASEBALL PLAYER. AND I KNOW WHAT HARD WORK THAT THEY PUT INTO THIS. I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE COACH'S WIFE, MICHELLE ANDERSON, LAST NIGHT. SHE SAID IT'S GOING TO BE KIND OF A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT OF A SCENARIO. WE WERE WONDERING IF IF DANIEL, BUT A JOURNALIST DANIEL MACALUSO AND YOU WANTED TO SIT WITH US AND WE WERE SITTING RIGHT NEXT COACH ANDERSON'S DAD. CHASE, ANDERSON, HIS GRANDPA. WE'RE SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO HIM. HIGH-FIVING EVERYONE BEING A PART OF THE TEAM IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL FOR THEM TOO. OFFER THAT TO THEY DO. THEY DO TRUST US. I THINK. AND I AND I AND I KNOW THAT THEY THEY REALLY APPRECIATE US BEING UP HERE WITH THEM. THE ONLY TV STATION LOCALLY TO DO THAT. AND TO BE WITH THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY AND TO REPORT ON WHAT IT'S BEEN LIKE BEHIND THE SCENES BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST THE GAMES THAT ARE BEING PLAYED. IT IS THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE HERE IN WILLIAMSPORT THAT I'M I'M HOPING THAT I DID A GOOD JOB OF OF OF JOGGING THAT DOWN AND BEING A JOURNALIST SO THEY CAN LOOK BACK ON ON ALL THESE MEMORIES AND SORT OF RELIVE IT AS TIME GOES ON. I THINK HE DID. I THINK THEY THINK SO, TOO. WE ARE PROUD AND I KNOW YOU'RE PROUD OF THEM.