Six years ago, there were 12 teams in a holding pattern ? all of them with dreams and expectations that maybe this would be the year someone from District 16 would break out and go to Williamsport, PA.It had never happened before. It hasn’t happened since. But it happened in 2003, when Saugus American finally broke the door down and made it to the mecca of Little League.This year marked the high school graduation of 11 of those 12 boys of 2003 from Saugus High, St. Mary’s and Malden Catholic.This year, 12 more teams approach Saturday’s District 16 tournament opener with similar stars in their eyes. But first things first, the managers say. There’s no sense in looking ahead when there’s a ballgame Saturday.”All we can do is go out and do the best we can,” says West Lynn American manager Joe Rose, whose team opens the tournament at East Lynn’s Volunteer Field Saturday (11) against Saugus National.”We don’t look ahead,” Rose said. “We don’t even look beyond the first game. We just have to go one step at a time.”Rose preferred not to single out any of his players, and said, “We’re a team. We all belong here. They represent the best of our league, and they all know they have a job to do ? to go out and play the best they can.”The Nats had a mini-streak of three straight district titles broken last year by Wyoma, and they’re anxious to get back into the winners’ circle.”I think we have a chance,” said manager John Furey. “Our guys are pretty good, and our practices have gone well. We’ve been lucky. Our field’s pretty dry, so we’ve had a chance to have some practices.”Saugus National will count on pitchers Charlie Vozzella and Justin Winn, with batterymate Luke Surette.Other players to watch, Furey says, are Joe Bertrand, Jack Furey, Victor DeMateo, Nolan Dube, Dan Cacciola, Justino Pasquale, Nico DeFlorio, Joe O’Brien, and Chris Sanderson.There are two games at 2 p.m. Saturday: Swampscott vs. Saugus American (at Pine Hill’s Chris Spagnoli Field) and Wyoma vs. Winthrop at Revere’s McMackin Field.Wyoma, managed by Jeff Earp, has one returning player from last year’s district champion – Katie Burt, who stood out as a goalie on the Lynn English-sponsored girls hockey team last winter.Burt will pitch and play shortstop, “and she just continues to excel,” says Earp.Earp says this year’s team consists of “a bunch of hard-working, scrappy kids. Last year, we just went up and hit the ball. This year? Who knows?”This isn’t to say the Wyomans don’t have some clout. Burt put 15 out of Reinfuss Field and Cullen Dunnigan had 17.Still, “we have a long way to go before we can be as good as we were last year,” Earp said.Other players to watch for Wyoma are Brent Lozzi, Brendan O’Neill, Damien Earp, Mike Auciello and Bradley Dill.”We expect every game to be tough,” he said. “But they play hard, they listen, and they’re very coachable.”Saugus American’s Matt Jones says his team has been buoyed by an appearance or two from the Boys of ’03.”And it’s nice for our kids to see, especially with them all graduating from high school this year,” said Jones.Like West Lynn’s Rose, Jones preferred to talk of his team as a whole.”I look at all my players as superstars,” he said. “I think we’ll size up well in the district. We did last summer as 11’s.”Like many of the teams, Jones has had a tough time practicing around the recent spate of rain and overall unpleasant weather the region has experienced.”We’ve gone indoors quite a bit,” he said. “And we’ve been up to the batting cages. You do what you have to do, given what we have to work with. Everyone’s in the same boat. It’s not like anyone has an indoor baseball facility.”The Americans’ opponent, Swampscott, is hungry to regain the winning ways the program enjoyed in the 1990s, when it captured nine straight championships from 1991 through 1999.”That’s our goal,” says manager Mike LeBlanc. “We’re ready to win it again.”LeBlanc is part of a father-son family franchise when it comes to Swampscott Little League (his