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"An all-girls baseball team with two members from Central Florida took the championship in a national tournament this weekend -- and their competitors were all boys.Watch this reportLocal girls Aubrey Evans and Grace DeVinney were two members of the Baseball For All 10 and Under National All Star Team.Images: Girls team wins boys tournamentThe team, made up of 11 girls from eight different states, won five consecutive games over the weekend to secure the national title in their age group at the USSSA Tournament in southern California.And not only did they win, they secured the championship game by \"mercy rule.\" Play was stopped after they scored 18 runs in the first three innings.\u00A0\"The boys were great, but the girls were unstoppable,\" team manager Justine Siegal said.Breaking gender norms, Aubrey, Grace and their teammates from across the country met in Los Angeles last week and had just one practice as a team before the tournament began Saturday, said Siegal.\"We lost the first two games. Then we started getting mad. Then we started to bring our A game,\" Grace said.This team was the only girls team in the tournament, and Siegal believes the first 10-and-under girls team to compete in a boys\u2019 baseball tournament.\"They played seven games in three days and the girls won the whole thing. That means they\u2019re really, really good. They\u2019re also the cutest team I\u2019ve ever seen,\" said Siegal.Siegal said the team won a lot of fans over.\"We were in the lowest bracket Monday morning, and we had to beat the No. 1 team from Las Vegas,\" she said. \"We came back in the last inning to win.\"They also won another game by the mercy rule.\"Most of the boys thought, oh, they're girls, we're going to beat them, but as soon as they kept thinking they were going to beat us, we beat them, so don't judge a book by its cover,\" said Aubrey.Siegal called Aubrey the \"best hitter of the tournament.\"Founded by Siegal, Baseball For All is a nonprofit aimed at providing opportunities for everyone -- but especially girls -- to play baseball."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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