CASSELTON — In the first game of the Class A Legion baseball state tournament, the Devils Lake Storm just kept doing what got them here.

Their offense wasn’t necessarily gelling the way they would have liked in the region tournament. But they won the tournament and grabbed the No. 1 seed in the East anyway — in large part due to the high quality of at-bats they’ve maintained all season. Even when they’re not hitting, they find ways to walk, steal bases and make things happen.

That’s exactly what they did in the second inning on Thursday at Central Cass High School.

In one of the wackiest and most relentless innings you’ll see in Legion baseball, Devils Lake scored eight runs on just one hit. Bismarck made five errors. The Storm drew four walks, plus a hit batsman. They stole seven bases

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