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Team members of the Carrington Redbirds 12U baseball team are, front row (L-R): Asher McIlonie, Easton Kollman, James Rau, Sam Garr, Garrett VanRay, Layton Sauvageau and Isaiah Oatis. Back row: Coaches Michael Rau and Ben Garr, Cade Helseth, Krew Wolsky, Evan Johnson, Jayce Kollman, Jaxon Zink, Howie Simonson, and Coaches Brett McIlonie and Justin Kollman. Not pictured: Blake Braaten.
The Carrington Redbirds 12-and-under baseball team traveled to the state Cal Ripken Tournament for that age group Thursday-Saturday, July 27-29, in Grafton.
The eight-team tournament featured the Redbirds, along with host Grafton, Kidder County, Hazen-Beulah, Park River, Drayton, Thompson, and Star City (Velva).
Participating clubs were placed in two round-robin pods, the American and National. Carrington was part of the National pod along with Thompson, Star City and Drayton.
On Thursday, the 'Birds took on Drayton, and fell to the Bombers by an 11-7 score. Two games were on tap the following day, and Carrington dropped both those decisions, 13-0 to Thompson, and 7-5 to Star City, to finish at 0-3 for the tournament.
The top two finishers in each pod advanced to Saturday's bracket play. The Thompson Tommies would win the championship by a final score of 8-3 over the Grafton Gremlins, while the Hazen-Beulah Northstars finished third, defeating the Star City Stampede by 10-run rule, 12-1.
Members of the Redbird team this past summer were Blake Braaten, Sam Garr, Cade Helseth, Evan Johnson, Easton Kollman, Jayce Kollman, Asher McIlonie, Isaiah Oatis, James Rau, Layton Sauvageau, Howie Simonson, Garrett VanRay, Krew Wolsky and Jaxon Zink.
Coaches for the team were Justin Kollman, Ben Garr, Michael Rau and Brett McIlonie.
