Ella Bruning is the player everyone wants to talk to at the Little League World Series. She's the only female competing in this year's tournament.
Abilene, Texas' Ella Bruning scores on a wild pitch by Sammamish, Wash. starting pitcher Sanath Chari during the second inning of a baseball game at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Friday, Aug. 20, 2021.
In Texas’s 6-0 win over Washington on Friday, she stole second, scored the first run and led the team with two hits and an RBI, becoming just the third girl to have a multi-hit game in the Little League World Series. “I think she caught a line drive one day and some of the boys teased her about being on the team,” Ella’s mom, Lindi, recalled. “From that point, it was always a joke that she would play and, eventually, she did.”
“We knew this was our biggest shot to go this far,” Ella said. “This is once in a lifetime. I have softball for the rest of my life, so I can do this for one year and go right back.”
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