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WORLD SERIES BOUND



Whalley, BC defeats Glace Bay, NS 11-0 and will represent 🇨🇦 at the Little League World Series. @CBCNews @cbcsports @CBCVancouver pic.twitter.com/9xNmS075AD — Devin Heroux (@Devin_Heroux) August 11, 2018

The Whalley team was both favoured and dominant in the tournament, going undefeated and winning four games by the mercy rule.

Head coach Mike Marino told CBC News he was pretty emotional after the game. His son Joey is a member of the team and Marino himself once played for Whalley.

“We have to enjoy this time right now. We’re the best team in Canada,” Marino told CBC. “We’ve been working at this since the boys were eight years old. We set a goal then and now we’ve fulfilled it.”

The Canadian title moves Whalley into second spot all-time with six national Little League titles.

B.C. has won 13 out of the last 14 national Little League titles, and 26 overall since the national championship began in 1958. Whalley has won five of those (1973, ’78, ’97, 2005, ’06), tied for the second most with Trail, B.C., and Glace Bay.

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