The Marshall Heights Bison take to the field ahead of the championship game, which they won. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/ IPAPHOTO.COM)

The Marshall Heights Bison football team won the Pop Warner Jr. Midget Division I National Championship in Florida yesterday, shutting out Miami’s Gwen Cherry Bulls 14-0.

The win is one of many for the D.C. team, which claimed the Pee Wee Division I championship last year and the Midget Division title in 2006. The Bison also played in championship games in 1999, 2000 and 2003. The team was founded in 1994, and has since participated in the city’s large Pop Warner football league, wrote the Post in a 2007 profile:

In the District, 70 teams that belong to 20 different associations participate in a Pop Warner-sanctioned league administered by the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Club, a branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington. The teams compete against each other and then against squads of similar age and size in the region and nation from August to December. Over the years, District teams have made it to the national championship six times, including the Bison’s four times.

Another D.C. team, the Beacon House Falcons, lost to the Liberty City Warriors 6-0 in the Pee Wee Division I National Championship game.