This is Rumbel Strip, I'm America Heilman. I've been working pretty solidly on a new series for Vermont Public on class, the third class series that I'll be making and I will be airing it on

Rumble Strip but in the meantime I figured I'd play an old story that I made also a

story I made for Vermont Public that I've never played on Rumble Strip

it's one of my favorite stories about a little league game in St. Johnsbury.

It was the playoffs a few years ago, and I lived really close to the ball field so I walked down there with my recorder and recorded in both dugouts.

It was a very, very exciting time and an exciting game and I really, I think about these guys all the time.

So here is the Little League playoffs in St. Johnsbury Vermont 2019.

Welcome.

Hey guys, let 2019. Welcome.

Hey guys, let's get excited.

Let's play some good deed for your picture here, support him. They're going to come in and hit, yeah.

Big deal.

We're not messing around tonight. Everybody's hitting, everybody's gonna make a play.

Sound good? Yeah! Okay boys, let's go. Giant shot three!

One, two three giants. Here we go.

That's Justin Lemieux, coach of the Giants, before the first Little League playoff game down at Legion

Field in St. Johnsbury. It was the Giants against the Red Sox, and the Giants were feeling

pretty confident.

They'd had an amazing season.

The Red Sox had a less amazing season,

but players were feeling pretty hopeful

that they'd pull out what Griffin Goodhue called

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