The 13U O’Brien Baseball Club recently captured the Sandy Koufax National League State Championship as well as the the Triple Crown World Series in Steamboat Spring, Colo., and the BPA Western World Series in Redmond.

O’Brien, which feeds from the Eastside and includes Ethan Paul and Ryland Kerr of Bellevue, went 20-1 in league play before going 5-0 in the state championship tournament. The team beat the Port Orchard POSOX to win the title.

Less than 24 hours later, the team traveled to Colorado owning a 57-2 overall record. The World Series featured 25 qualified teams.

O’Brien went 3-0 in pool play, outscoring their opponents by 15 runs. They went into the double-elimination championship bracket as the No. 2 seed.

The team opened up elimination play by scoring 15 runs after falling behind 5-0 to beat the STC Gamecocks of California. They then beat EMBA Elite of Southern California 14-2 in four innings.

O’Brien faced off with the TC Saints of Thurston County in the quarterfinals, with O’Brien coming out on top, 11-3.

The semi-finals matched O’Brien with the La Costa Bandits of San Diego, the only other undefeated team in the tournament. The Bandits lead 8-0 in the bottom of the fifth before O’Brien exploded 12 runs in the final three innings to win in 12-11 on a walk-off single to right field in the bottom of the seventh inning.

O’Brien faced off with the Pure Stats Tides of Murrieta, Calif., in the championship game. O’Brien again fell behind 5-1 after three innings, but rallied for five runs in the third and never looked back – cruising to a 13-5 victory.

The title was the first World Series title for the O’Brien program.

The team wasn’t done there, however. The team went on to win the Baseball Players Association Western World Series in Redmond earlier this month. The team ended it’s season with a 71-2 record. O’Brien’s last loss came on April 4.