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A busy week of action would produce four wins in six games for the Sutton Post 61 Juniors, producing an overall 16-3 record as the Sutton crew draws near to the end of the shortened baseball season.

A two-game sweep of the Doniphan Senior Legion squad produced a pair of five inning wins for Sutton, gaining game one 12-0, while in game two, the Sutton Juniors claimed a 17-5 win.

Sutton scored in each of the five-innings in game one, while holding Doniphan scoreless throughout, with a five-run fifth inning, sealing the shutout win.

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Sandy Creek senior Connor Crumbliss (7) represented Sandy Creek High School in the 62nd Annual Shrine Bowl in Kearney this past Saturday. Above: Crumbliss sheds a block attempt by St. Paul’s Jackson Seward, while at the left, Crumbliss looks to seal off a North team defender during a kick return. Crumbliss and his South teammates erased an early 6-0 deficit in the first quarter to rally for a commanding 30-6 win in the annual clash. He was the first Cougar to play in the game since 1996. 

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Three Harvard football players that helped guide the Cardinals to the 2019 Class D-3 state football championship will have one final chance to represent Cardinal Nation in the annual 6-Man All-Star game between Nebraska and Wyoming 6-man standouts.

The game, which was to be played in early June this year, has not only had a few date changes but now has a location change, as the game, which was originally set to be played at Chadron State College, will now be played at Sioux County High School in Harrison on Thursday, July 23. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. Mountain Time, 6 p.m. Central.

Representing the Cardinals will be Noah Okraska, the 6-Man defensive player of the year, along with running back David Reazola and receiver Ryan Harms.

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Week three of the 2020 junior legion baseball season continued with four home games. Taking care of business during the Sutton Juniors’ first road game of the season, Sutton claimed a doubleheader win over Overton, 10-5 and 15-7, before splitting with Wood River this past Friday night, claiming a 9-1 first game win, before falling 15-7 to Wood River in the nightcap.

Wednesday night’s opener with Overton would see the visiting Bandits open with an early 4-0 lead after one inning, before Sutton battled back, gaining two runs in the third and capping the come-from-behind win with eight runs in the fifth frame.

Dawson Ohrt led the hit parade for Sutton with a pair of singles and two runs driven in, while Isaac Stark, Jesse Herndon, Paxton Olson, Greyson Stengel and Tyson Cloet all singled in the win.

Sandy Creek senior Connor Crumbliss has been invited to be a part of the 62nd Annual Nebraska Shrine Bowl, where the Cougar standout will play for the South squad in the event, slated to begin at 2 p.m., Saturday, July 11, at the University of Kearney campus at Ron and Carol Cope Stadium Foster Field.

Crumbliss is the first Sandy Creek player to be invited to play in the game since 1996, when Simon Van Voening played.

A year before Van Voening played, Brian Shaw, a 1995 graduate of Sandy Creek, played in the contest.

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For the second straight week, the Sutton Post 61 Junior Legion baseball team earned a pair of wins over Fairfield’s Post 256 Juniors, this time in Fairfield.

Sutton upended Fairfield 12-2 and 16-8 on June 18 in Sutton, and five days later, the Post 61 crew took wins of 13-5 and 9-4 while playing on the home field of Post 256 in Fairfield.

Game one of the doubleheader would see Sutton jump out to an early 9-0 lead after two and a half innings of play, before Fairfield posted two runs in the bottom of the third to set the game at a 9-2 Sutton advantage.

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