The Illinois District 17 softball team, composed of players throughout West-Central and Central Illinois, won the Senior League World Series championship yesterday.
The team pushed across a pair of late runs to beat last year’s champion Texas 5-4 in Lower Sussex, Delaware. The win kept District 17 undefeated through World Series play at 7-0.
The District 17 team, based out of Beardstown, which consists of players from Triopia, Beardstown, Pleasant Plains, Calhoun, Pleasant Hill, Brown County, Rushville-Industry, Springfield, Pittsfield, Havana, Macomb, Quincy, and Illini West among others.