CASSELTON — As Mason Palmer paced off the mound, pumping his fists, the first teammate to celebrate with him was his brother Max.

The Palmer twins leapt in the air. They bumped chests. The rest of Mason’s teammates surrounded him until he ran out of room by the first-base dugout.

“Oh man, it’s insane,” he said. “It didn’t even feel real.”

Palmer could finally exhale. He’d just gotten a swing and a miss on a high fastball to finish off an ultra baseball rarity: a perfect game.

“Been doing this for 17 years at the Legion level, and that’s the first one of those that I’ve been blessed to have a part of,” Devils Lake coach Brent Luehring said.

It was also Palmer’s first no-hitter or perfect game at this level. He dominated to the tune of a 0.93 ERA during the regular season, then brought

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