Bandits win first-ever American Legion World Series

The Idaho Falls Bandits won the American Legion World Series Wednesday morning with a 5-3 victory over Fargo, N.D.This is the first American Legion World Series win for a team from the state of Idaho.This marked the third straight year that Idaho sent a team to the American Legion World Series and ninth overall. Only two of the other eight programs to make the World Series made the title game. Pocatello lost, 23-6, in the first World Series in 1926 against Yonkers, N.Y., in Philadelphia. Lewiston Post 13 dropped a 5-2 decision to Brooklawn, N.J., in 2001 in Yakima, Wash.

Idaho Falls ends the season at 61-6. Fargo, the first North Dakota to ever play for a national title, finishes at 54-8.

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