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In the final two games played on Ravenna’s field in the Area 6 Legion Seniors Tournament on Monday and Tuesday, July 26th and 27th, the DCB team swept their way to the title by logging a total of 28 hits and by scoring a total of 31 runs in those two games. Two of those hits came via the pair of grand slam home runs turned in by Bosten Caspersen and Eli Wooden, both coming in Tuesday’s championship game which was an 18-6 blitzing of PWG (Palmer/Wolbach/Greeley). On the previous night Shelton/Gibbon was eliminated by a 13-4 loss as they endured a 12-hit game by DCB, a game led by two-baggers from the bats of Carter Noakes and Bosten Caspersen. Justice Peterson also had two hits, and Wooden, Elijah Boersen, Bryce Gorecki, Kolby Gorecki, and Tanner Simdorn each had one hit.

After sweeping their way through Ravenna’s Area 6 Senior Legion baseball tournament, DCB’s winning ways have continued into the state tournament at Palmer with a win over Crofton on Saturday, July 31, followed by getting past PWG yet another time Sunday, the first day of August. The respective scores were 8-0 and 9-4.

Summer days will soon give way to school days and in order to plan for those upcoming school days, respective Clipper Country schools, Shelton, Gibbon, Wood River Rural and Centura, have released their schedules for the first days and weeks of school and fall sports. Following is how area schools will begin their 2021-22 school years according to their respective calendars up to the Labor Day holiday.