DULUTH—The Rock Ridge baseball team needed to play a clean game and string together a strong series of hits if they hoped to take down top-seeded Esko Tuesday in a Section 7AA semifinal at Wade Stadium.
The defense wasn’t as clean as it could have been and the hits never materialized like they needed them to as the Eskomos downed the Wolverines 7-1.
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