And it turns out there’s a lot more to the story.
The girls team was a “travel” team, in other words an all-star team. The boys teams were rec-league teams composed of all-comers, i.e. maladroits. Particularly given that the better boys players were already on travel teams of their own.
So an all-star team of fifth grade girls beat all-NON star team(s) of boys, in a tournament where the girls knew going in that because they were at a different competitive level, that they would not get the championship trophy.
Come on people-button pushing article.