The latest news adds to the controversy swirling around Almonte, whose real age of 14 ended up costing his Little League team, the Rolando Paulino All Stars, its third place title in the World Series and stripped the star pitcher of all his records, including a perfect game, a one-hitter and 46 strikeouts.

"We can't lie," Bolivar de Luna Gomez, vice principal of the 3,000 student Andres Bello Primary School, told The Associated Press Tuesday. "He was here and the records show this. It is the truth and if authorities ask us to turn the documents in, we are ready to do so."

Gomez described Almonte as "easygoing, friendly and of normal academic achievement." The school is located in the small farming town of Moca, about 90 miles north of the capital, Santo Domingo.

The star pitcher finished school June 15, 2001, preventing him from completing the six regular season games needed to qualify for the championships, Little League officials said.

Depending on the weather, Little League seasons start as early as February and as late as June 1, with the all-star tournament that leads to the Little League World Series beginning July 1. To be named to a league's all-star team and participate in the tournament, a player must have played in at least half of his team's games by June 15.

"If he wasn't in the country until after June 15, then it seems impossible that he would have been eligible under those conditions as well," said Little League spokesman Lance Van Auken. "It adds to the weight of evidence against Rolando Paulino and anyone else who might have known Danny was ineligible."

Paulino, founder and president of the league that bears his name, was banned for life from any affiliation with Little League, as was Almonte's father, Felipe de Jesus Almonte, who Dominican officials say forged a birth record for his son.

Van Auken said the president of each league -- in Almonte's case, Rolando Paulino -- signs an affidavit verifying the eligibility of each player in the all-star tournament.

Gomez, from the school, also confirmed Danny is registered as having been born on April 7, 1987, as Dominican authorities ruled Friday.

Almonte's team was forced to forfeit its district, section, state and regional championships as well as the third-place finish last week, after Dominican authorities confirmed a second 1989 birth certificate was false.

Jose Rojas, Almonte's uncle who initially confirmed that Danny had been in the United States for nearly two years, retracted his earlier statement, saying it was possible that Danny was in Moca until June.