Members of the Tallahassee, Florida Babe Ruth 13-year-old World Series team pose with their championship trophies after beating Stamford, Connecticut 13-5 in Saturday's title game at Diethrick Park in Jamestown. P-J photo by Matt Spielman

Tallahassee, Florida was rarely tested on its road to the Babe Ruth 13-year-old World Series.

But on Saturday, the Southeast Region champions had to rally from 2-0 and 5-2 deficits.

It wasn’t a problem.

Tournament Most Outstanding Player Preston Cooksey hit a bases-clearing three-run triple during an eight-run fifth inning and Tallahassee beat Stamford, Connecticut 13-5 in the title game at Diethrick Park.

Tallahassee-Leon Babe Ruth, which won the 14-year-old World Series in Hot Springs, Arkansas last weekend, finished a perfect 14-0 summer for its 13-year-olds with Saturday’s championship win in Jamestown.

Cooksey went 2 for 2 with two walks, two stolen bases and two runs scored to go along with his three RBIs to lead an 11-hit attack. Leadoff hitter Parker Rudd had two hits, two stolen bases and two runs scored to go along with an RBI; Parker Pennington hit an RBI double and scored twice; and Nicholas Volpe — who was named the Ron Tellefsen Player of the Game — singled and drove in two runs while also tossing 2 1/3 innings of perfect relief to earn the win.

Tallahassee flipped the game on its head in the bottom of the fifth inning after Volpe induced an inning-ending double play to end the top half of the frame.

Stamford turned to its bullpen after Ben Henderson navigated through the first four innings on the mound. The New England Region champions could not hold a one-run lead. Cooksey greeted Stamford’s first reliever with a single and A.J. Henry followed with a one-out single before a wild pitch left the runners at second and third. Michael Volpe was then hit by a pitch to load the bases and Bryce Bedonie hit an RBI single to tie the game.

Stamford then turned to a second reliever, who surrendered bases-loaded walks to Ethan Sapiera and Dylan Daughtry to make it a 7-5 game.

Stamford’s third reliever of the inning then issued a walk to Rudd with the bases loaded and a two-out error forced in Tallahassee’s ninth run before Cooksey’s three-run blast to the right-center field gap put an exclamation mark on the frame.

Nicholas Volpe then retired the final six Stamford batters of the game in order, the final coming on a flyout to right field that gave Tallahassee-Leon its second Babe Ruth World Series title of the summer.

Stamford’s first two runs came on first-inning passed balls and its third run scored on a second-inning wild pitch. Its only run-scoring hit of the day was a Dylan Riveles two-run single that made it 5-2 in the top of the third inning.

Tallahassee scored on a wild pitch and a Nicholas Volpe RBI single in the first inning. In the third, Pennington hit an RBI double and Nicholas Volpe had a sacrifice fly.

NOTES: In addition to Cooksey being named the World Series MOP, Nicholas Volpe and Henry were named to the All-World Series Team and Sapiera was named to the All-Defensive Team for Tallahassee. … Luke Baker was named to the All-World Series Team while Cody Meek and Brandon Jones were named to the All-Defensive Team for Stamford.