(Orlando, FL) - La Porte County is home to a new National Championship Team!

 

The Greater La Porte Slicers - a 10U football team - won the Pop Warner National Championship "Super Bowl" on Friday. The squad defeated the Norristown Bengals from Pennsylvania 39-6 at Campint World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

 

Last season, they made it to the Pop Warner National Semi-Finals and lost to the eventual Championship team. This year, though, they went undefeated the entire season. Dennis Nelson, Jr., whose son, Dennis, III is a tight end on the 10U squad, said the players worked especially hard since January to make it back to the final four then win the national title game.

 

“I’m just really proud of them for persevering through a tough bracket and making little ol’ La Porte on the map with a national championship,” he said.

 

The team could be heard celebrating in the background on a phone call with Nelson where he told Hometown News Now, “they’re the best in the country and it’s not even close.”