There wasn’t anything that could slow the 12-and-under Force baseball team at the World Series in mid-July.

Not even the challenge of having to play seven games in a 24-hour span could hamper the Jonesville-based team’s quest for a championship.

The Force outlasted 40 teams to claim the USSSA DFW World Championship in Arlington, Texas.

Force coach John Manning said his squad had been playing together all summer and defeated teams from Nebraska, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and others on their way to the championship.

“It was just something you never would imagine,” he said. “A small area like we are and beating teams from Texas and Oklahoma … We were good a team, but at times throughout the summer, I thought we could have been better. Our guys never gave up.”

The Force went 2-1 in pool play, earning the No. 12 seed in the double-elimination portion of the tournament.

The Force won their first game but then came up short to the Texas Titans, 3-2.

“We then had no room for error,” Manning said.

The area-based team then went on to beat teams from Tulsa, Baton Rouge, turning a triple play in their 6-0 win over Baton Rouge. The Force culminated their seven-games in 24-hour stretch with back-to-back wins over the Titans to claim the championship.

“At that point it was like something out of a movie,” Manning said. “The level of play that our guys showed, they just rose to the occasion.”

For the tournament, Manning said, the Force posted 2.32 earned-run average to go along with a .413 batting average.

“We never gave up and just kept chipping away,” Manning said. “Our guys played on a different level than what they had been playing all season long.”

While the Jonesville coach said he was proud of each of his players, he singled out the play of catcher Clay Clark for staying strong behind the plate in six of the team’s final seven games.

“Everyone was running on adrenaline,” Manning said. “It was 110-degrees, and we were playing on artificial turf. They just muscled up and kept going, and after it was all over with, everyone was just elated.

“It wasn’t until two or three days later that it really set in for what they accomplished. But for 12-year-old guys, they stayed the course during the tournament.”