GRANT BLANKENSHIP/THE TELEGRAPH.WRALL player Taylor Brown, with teammate Melissa Cox, leans back in a chair in the lobby of the official Little League Softball World Series Hotel in Portland, OR, as she gets her hair braided before the first game of the tournament for WRALL Thursday. Braiding the hair of the players has become a pre-game ritual.

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