re: Have you ever won a championship in a sport?

My high school baseball team had an incredible run that fell short.

We weren’t very good. We made the state championship series and ended the season with a losing record.

Back in the 90s in Alabama, districts were four teams. If you finished in the top two, you made the playoffs. Our district was:

1. Suburban team that was ranked No. 1 in the state.
2. Our rival who was pretty good and had a pitcher that played football at Alabama.
3. Us
4. School that dominated basketball and didn’t care about baseball.

You played everyone twice. We went 0-2 against best team and 2-0 against worst team. We would play our rival on back to back days home and home during school. We won our home game and then the next day were rained out. It rained for a solid two weeks and they couldn’t get their field ready so we never played them the second game (they had tiebreaker so we had to win) so we made the playoffs.

Went on an incredible run and won first round on the road in three games. Was over matches in the second round but won a doubleheader with both games going extra innings to get to quarterfinals.

Quarterfinal opponent was disqualified for having played an ineligible player. We won by forfeit.

Semifinal was a lot like the second round. Lost the first but came back next day and won double header.

Took our district opponent to three games in final but couldn’t finish it. Finished 15-17 on the season and 8-5 in the playoffs. Those three weeks were the funnest i ever had in high school.