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The Truest Mark of a Championship Team

The moment most fans never saw will be the one Conestoga's biggest fan will never forget.

It was perhaps THE moment that marked the team as true champions.

It came just one week ago, after the the final out in the longest game in PIAA baseball championship history.  It came after the medals had been awarded to the outstanding players on both teams.  It came after the grounds crew had taken the field and most of the crowd had filed out.

It started when someone on the Pioneers team yelled "let run the bases!" and without hesitation, the newly-crowned state baseball champions lined up along the the third base line as the fan and teammate with Down Syndrome, who had been with the Pioneers in the dugout throughout the season, strode, bat in hand, to the plate.

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