The Lavaca Little League Golden Arrows made a very positive adjustment over the offseason as the Arrows stepped out of their old league to join up with the West Central Football League. The WCFL is a league that was established to help small-town programs to match up with opponents similar to size, numbers, and talent. After the success of the WCFL’s inaugural season last year, the programs in the league saw a drastic rise in participation and excitement around their programs. Programs around the area noticed this and many wanted to join. When Lavaca was invited to join the league this past spring, they jumped at the opportunity.
Lavaca is set with great coaches and a great program as a whole. They have a history of being a stiff team for any opponent. With the Little League Golden Arrows now in a position to go toe to toe with WCFL competition and start building their program to prominence, the Golden Arrows are facing the unimaginable. They are so short on players that there’s a possibility of them having to forfeit their season. With only four weeks until their WCFL Jamboree in Mansfield on August 24th, Lavaca’s fifth and sixth grade team currently does not have enough players signed up to have a team while the third and fourth grade squad has merely a handful more.
Lavaca Little League Football President and WCFL Representative Alanna Brunson said “We’re excited to play in the West Central Football League this season. Most of the schools in the league are the schools that we play all the way up into high school now. The coaches and players we have are very excited to compete against these programs but our numbers are extremely low. If we can get more kids interested and involved in the program, we have the possibility of having the best season we’ve seen in years.”
Little League sports are not all about the money that a program gets at the gate. They’re not about whose rich, cool, or popular in that community. Little League sports are about young athletes and should be solely about young athletes. High School athletics may be the face of athletics in towns, but Little League is the entire body. Little League as a whole is the future of any high school athletic program. So if you get the chance, make some phone calls, knock on some doors, put up flyers, or simply post something on social media to help the Lavaca Little League Football program get some more players on their roster.
Photos courtesy of Kim Martin Sharp
