But he can't make any of those anymore, he's on a different playing field now. Zitsch remembers everything about his summer at the Little League World Series.

It helped shape and "re-shape him."

"I turned around and I just saw a bat," said Zitsch in 2006.

"The first thing that comes to mind is I broke my nose, yeah, I remember that," said Zitsch.

The nose looks different now and so is his game.

He turned in his bat for a racket and the 15 year-old freshman now makes plays on the tennis court at Rock Bridge High School.

"It was probably one of the toughest decisions I've made because I love baseball a lot and I just had to think, 'do I want to play college tennis or do I want to play college baseball?'" said Zitsch.

Tennis won out. A surprise to even some of his teammates.

"I thought he would play baseball because he played tennis back then, too. He wasn't amazing, but he got really good, really fast," said Daniel Liu, Rock Bridge sophomore tennis player.

Really fast can also describe his style. Zitsch is one of the best singles players in the state.

"He can bring a lot of pace off his serve. He can bring a lot of pace off his ground strokes. He can dictate," said Rock Bridge tennis coach Ben Loeb.

"Consistency is not really my game. I can do it, but I like the power game," said Zitsch.

And he's powered his way to the top spot on the team. But remember, he's still a freshman.

"Even though I'm number one, I'm still the low man on the totem poll. I still get pushed around, I got to pick up all the balls. They tried to throw me in the lake," said Zitsch.

"We're like, big winner, pick up all the balls and put away all the scorecards and stuff like that," said Liu.

Rock Bridge is home to the 2008 boys state championships tennis team.

But Zitsch doesn't let history hang over his head.

"I have to be honest, I think we're as good or better than last year," said Zitsch.

"I've tried to remind them about how champions would go about doing something. Even though I say it, I catch myself and say 'oh, well, we are the champions,'" said Loeb.

Champions, just like the little league team in 2006, Midwest champs who went all the way to Williamsport.

"I occasionally will go back and watch one of our games. It's pretty exciting, but to know the ending, it's like "ahhhh, what would I have done differently," said Zitsch.

He would have watch out for that bat in the nose.

"I think he's safer in tennis," said Loeb.

Zitsch says Alabama is his dream school to play college tennis. Both of his parents are Crimson-Tide alums.

The Columbia team is still the first and only Missouri team to get a win at the Little League World Series.

Zitsch says another special moment is the diving catch he made that made it onto ESPN's web gems.