Although it’s only fall, the Lewisberry, Pennsylvania Red Land team’s exciting run in the Little League World Series has Susquehannock buzzing about baseball.

   Just 32 miles away from Glen Rock, the small town of Lewisberry produced the 2015 United States Little League champion team. The wildly successful season ended with a loss to Japan’s team in the World Series.

  Red Land, however, remains the US champions, the first Pennsylvanian team to take the title since 1990 when Shippensburg was crowned. Because the team beat out the best of the best in the United States, Lewisberry had had high hopes going into the World Series against the international champion in Williamsport, PA on August 30.

  With 42,000 sets of eyes watching in the stadium, the game started with an almost shut out by Red Land, and soon, the score was 10-2 in favor of the Pennsylvanian team. However, Japan scored sixteen points throughout the rest of the game, only answered once by the Red Land team.

  Junior Julien Sherman has traveled to the Little League World Series for a few years now and enjoyed watching the Pennsylvanian team live.

  “It was a really cool atmosphere to be around because attendance was higher than a regular Major League game,” said Sherman.

  This year, both Japan and Red Land broke the Little League World Series run record by scoring 23 runs throughout the game according to USA Today. The record has stood firm since 1947. Also, Lewisberry brought the run record for the first inning, by scoring ten. US News describes the teams as having “put up video-game like numbers throughout their all-star runs.”

 Susquehannock baseball coach Tim Hare watched Red Land’s World Series run, seeing the degree of success that Red Land had.

  “Obviously it’s exciting any time you see kids from our area be able to compete on a national or international level,” said Hare. “We have the capability to do some pretty special things ourselves… and hopefully, by seeing these kids from a local area do so well that they can understand that teams from York County can compete with anybody.”

  More significant to Lewisberry than the actual World Series game, the Red Land team gathered the small community together through a variety of means. From selling t-shirts to raise money towards the Four Diamonds fund to having an ice cream flavor named in the team’s honor, Red Land has made an impact on its community.

  As the baseball season approaches, senior and baseball player Connor Hood draws inspiration from the Little League team.

  “[The team] brought a lot of people together,” said Hood. “I’m always excited for baseball.”

  Although Red Land was unable to take the World Series title home, the team accomplished a great deal this season and was able to bring its community closer together.