Nobody expected the Stafford Stingrays 12-and-under softball team to be in the position they were in at around 3 p.m. on July 31.

“Our girls didn’t expect to be in that position at all,” said manager Mike Sarnoski after his Stingrays shocked everybody, including themselves, by placing second in the USSSA Fastpitch Northeast “C” World Series in Sterling, Va.