MINOT, ND – For the third consecutive year LaMoure is the champion of the State Class B American Legion Baseball Tournament. This year they they had to come through the loser’s bracket. LaMoure lost their first round game to Garrison and then won six in a row. That included a 9-4 win in two extra innings over Cando in the first championship on Saturday, forcing a decisive championship on Sunday.

 

 

 

Championship
LaMoure def. Cando, 10-0 (5)
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MINOT, ND – The State Class A Legion Baseball Tournament is down to four teams.

 

 

 

Loser Out
(E#1) Kindred def. (E#4) Wahpeton, 4-2
(W#3) Bismarck Senators def. (W#4) Watford City Walleye, 11-1
Third Round
(E#2) Casselton def. (E#3) Fargo Jets, 3-0

 

 

Semifinal
(W#3) Bismarck Senators vs (E#3) Fargo Jets, 3 pm
(E#1) Kindred vs (E#2) Casselton, 6 pm
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TWINS-PADRES

 

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego beat the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Sunday, winning the three game series. Jurickson Profar homered for the second straight game and had a hand in the go-ahead rally in the sixth inning. That rally backed Sean Manaea (6-5), who overcame home runs by Luis Arraez and Jose Miranda to get the win. Luis Garcia pitched a perfect ninth for his first save. Profar homered off Dylan Bundy (6-5) with two outs in the third for a 1-0 lead. It was his 11th. The Twins came back with homers by Arraez leading off the fifth, his sixth, and Miranda with one out in the sixth, his 10th. The Padres took the lead while chasing Bundy during a sixth-inning rally. Trent Grisham and Profar opened the inning with consecutive singles to run Bundy, who was replaced by former Padres reliever Emilio Pagán. After Manny Machado lined out to center, Jake Cronenworth singled in the tying run and Luke Voit singled in the go-ahead run. Manaea allowed two runs and four hits in six innings, struck out seven and walked three. Bundy gave up three runs and four hits in five-plus innings, struck out three and walked none. The Twin return home for the first of three against Detroit tonight.
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NBA-RUSSELL OBIT

 

BOSTON (AP) — Bill Russell redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country. The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., stood with Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell earned his last two NBA titles as a player-coach — the first Black coach in any major U.S. sport. Russell died Sunday at the age of 88, with his wife, Jeannine, at his side, his family said in a statement posted on social media. No cause of death was immediately available; Russell, who had been living in the Seattle area, was not well enough to present the NBA Finals MVP trophy in June due to a long illness.

 

A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in the NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most decorated champion — he also won two college titles and an Olympic gold medal — and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while others racked up gaudy scoring totals.

 

Russell’s No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics in 1972. He earned spots on the NBA’s 25th anniversary all-time team in 1970, 35th anniversary team in 1980 and 75th anniversary team. In 1996, he was hailed as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players. In 2009, the MVP trophy of the NBA Finals was named in his honor. (Russell never won the honor, because it was awarded for the first time in 1969.) He presented his namesake trophy for many years, the last in 2019 to Kawhi Leonard.