YOUTH BASEBALL: 10-year-olds heading to World Series

BEMIDJI — Teamwork, hard work and focus has lead the Bemidji Northern Heat 10-year-olds to the Cal Ripken Baseball World Series in Jonesboro, Ark.

The series will get started Saturday with Bemidji (representing the Midwest Plains Region) playing the host Jonesboro, Ark. at 3 p.m.

“We are really honored and proud to represent Bemidji at not only the regional, but now we get to do it globally,” head coach Jason Brodina said. “The team won the sportsmanship award, there are only eight given out across the country, so that’s big for us. We always say that we are going to play and act the Northern Heat way and we try and do that on and off the field.”

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