CASSELTON — Devils Lake entered the final day of the Legion baseball state tournament needing to win twice to hoist the trophy.

Instead, the Storm (30-11) dropped a 9-7 slugfest to Fargo Post 2 at Valley Process Technologies Field. The loss brought an end to their season.

“I know there’s some kids over there that definitely, their goal was to raise the plaque at the end of the year,” Devils Lake coach Brent Luehring said. “And we just fell two games short.”

The Jets (33-9) advanced to Monday’s championship game against Casselton Post 15. They outhit Devils Lake 12-10 and benefitted from some fortunate bounces and ball placement.

After all, baseball is a game of inches.

“They caught their breaks,” Luehring said. “We didn’t catch the breaks until the end, and we just ran out of time. I

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