‘Remember Naperville’: Clarendon Hills used past comeback as fuel to flip the script on Ohio, advance to Little League World Series

WILLIAMSPORT, Penn. (WGN) — 14 years deep and on his last coaching run with his last son, Clarendon Hills Little League manager Brian Herold had a simple message for his team after a lopsided loss to Ohio in the Great Lakes Regional Tournament.

“Remember Naperville.”

Now, Herold wasn’t trying to invoke shades of Coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans to fire up a group of 12-year-olds. But he was harkening back to the last time they overcame long odds against a team that had soundly beaten them before…

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