Who is the best 10th grader????

[baseballislife4ever]

Let the chat begin

[baseballislife4ever]

i would have to say Connor Braaten from Langdon. He was a all-region as a freshmen and he was batting .380 and led the team with about 16 RBI

[baseball4life]

Sam Ebert from Bishop Ryan should be pretty solid this year. Will probably be their starting catcher. Didnt play a whole lot last year behind the plate but caught the region championship game and the State Semi-Final game. Played second for BR for alot of last year, and pinch hit quite a bit also. i would look to him to step into the catcher position there and be real good.

[spoilers23]

Joe Demers is the real deal. Batted in the two-hole for a good Grafton legion time while splitting team with the Babe Ruth team.

[baseballislife4ever]

Joey Demers is going to be one of the better players in ND this year.

[a-simple-fan]

i would have to say Connor Braaten from Langdon. He was a all-region as a freshmen and he was batting .380 and led the team with about 16 RBI

Langdon and Grafton both have a solid group of sophmores. Should be an interesting region the next few years.

[pakkyzoo]

Its surprising that if Langdon and Grafton have such good 10th graders, why don't we ever hear from these teams in Babe Ruth State Tournaments. I remember Grafton being in it in 2007 and 2006, but I haven't heard of them since or Langdon at all.

Do these towns still have Babe Ruth programs? You would think they would be able to with the size of their populations.

[a-simple-fan]

Its surprising that if Langdon and Grafton have such good 10th graders, why don't we ever hear from these teams in Babe Ruth State Tournaments. I remember Grafton being in it in 2007 and 2006, but I haven't heard of them since or Langdon at all.

Do these towns still have Babe Ruth programs? You would think they would be able to with the size of their populations.

Grafton was upset by Manvel in the playin game for the state tournament. Langdon has not registered their teams for state tournament play the last few years. In the league tournament Grafton took first, Langdon second, and Manvel fourth and they ended up second at state tournament.

[NE B-Baller 242]

top players I've seen

hitter-Joey Demers
Picher-Ty Bruner

[thatguy422]

top players I've seen

hitter-Joey Demers
Picher-Ty Bruner

I've always thought of Ty as more of a hitter/fielder than a pitcher. Amazing contact hitter. I have no idea who Joey Demers is though haha.

[ndfan24]

Velvas Ty Bruner and i think Harvey has a descent 2nd baseman

[Rush23]

I agree that Ty Bruner is a very good....they have Zach Podall on that team who is a good ball player to...him and Ty make a good 1 to 2 punch in that lineup for them

[thatguy422]

ya Zach is also good but he is overshadowed by Ty haha

Dylan Enget, a sophomore from Surrey, will be a large part of their team this year. He's a very good player.

[Rush23]

Ya dylan is pretty good to...is there any other good sophomores there

mark lacrox and justin mccloud arent bad either they are from bottineau

Is jaden pheifer a sophomore or a junior this year?? He is from rolette

[winners&losers]

jaden pfeifer is a junior

[no-money08]

jimmy "jeff" joyce the kid is an absolute stud from Valley City. He is definitely someone to look out for this year.

[utilityman]

jimmy "jeff" joyce the kid is an absolute stud from Valley City. He is definitely someone to look out for this year.

If he's as dedicated to baseball as he is to Call of Duty then we may be onto something here T-Money. I just hope that using that controller hasn't worn his arm out.

[Feathers #8]

Ya dylan is pretty good to...is there any other good sophomores there

mark lacrox and justin mccloud arent bad either they are from bottineau

Is jaden pheifer a sophomore or a junior this year?? He is from rolette

I would agree with mccloud, but lacroix? he seems to have some trouble with his hitting...maybe it's just me, correct me if im wrong

[Rush23]

Not really....if im wrong correct me but im not sure he usually is one of bottineaus best hitters and he always ends up batting behind erickson and block for the past 2 years and now this year erickson is gone and he well be 3 or 4 in the lineup

[thatguy422]

Not really....if im wrong correct me but im not sure he usually is one of bottineaus best hitters and he always ends up batting behind erickson and block for the past 2 years and now this year erickson is gone and he well be 3 or 4 in the lineup

He's also one of their main pitchers isn't he?

[InTheKnow]

Its surprising that if Langdon and Grafton have such good 10th graders, why don't we ever hear from these teams in Babe Ruth State Tournaments. I remember Grafton being in it in 2007 and 2006, but I haven't heard of them since or Langdon at all.

Do these towns still have Babe Ruth programs? You would think they would be able to with the size of their populations.

Grafton was upset by Manvel in the playin game for the state tournament. Langdon has not registered their teams for state tournament play the last few years. In the league tournament Grafton took first, Langdon second, and Manvel fourth and they ended up second at state tournament.

Joey Demers and Nathan Linstad from Midway are clearly the best 2 players out of the NE corner of the state as Sophomores. No one else should even be mentioned.

Grafton was beaten by MIDWAY-MANVEL soundly twice in the "Sanctioned" tournament and Joey Demers was out dueled by Nathan Linstad in the winners bracket 8-0. Midway-Manvel pretty much walked through the first 3 days of this years state tournament outscoring their opponents 38-4. They ended up falling twice to Casselton the last day and took 2nd place.

For a long time Grafton was the only team that was sanctioned as a "BABE RUTH" program. However there is a non sanctioned league comprised of Grafton, Park River, Cavalier, Minto, Midway, Manvel, Langdon, Munich, and Drayton-St Thomas. About 3 years ago Midway sanctioned their program and this year St. Thomas joined as well. Thats why you never see some of these teams during the state Babe Ruth tournament and then see them win or finish high at state in HS or Legion.

This year do to numbers Cavalier did not field a BR team and Midway-Manvel co-oped. Midway-Manvel did not throw their top 3 pitchers in the "non-sanctioned" tournament do to playing in the "Sanctioned" District Best of 3 games against Cando with the chance to go to state 2 days later and took 4th place in the “non-sanctioned tourney” losing on a walk off home run to Drayton-St-Thomas. When all of Midway-Manvels players were there and were using one of their top 3 pitchers they clearly had the best team in the league.

Back to Linstad, according to the stats on www.kmav.com for this years state Babe Ruth tournament in 5 games he hit .462 going 6x13 with a double and 6RBI, drew 7 walks, scored 6 runs, and stole 5 bases. He also had a 1.27ERA on the mound in 11 innings with 15 Ks. In legion he threw a 3 hitter against the Grand Forks Blues and a 5 hitter against Yorkton Sask in the Fargo Red River Diamond Classic. The exact same Yorkton team beat the Fargo Bombers for the title of the Bomber tournament the year before. He was arguably the best player at the BR state tournament. Because of Midways low numbers Linstad will be playing high school ball for Minto unless administrators agree to change the co-op name to Midway-Minto or minto-midway.

I agree with Joey Demers and Ty Bruner. Both are great players and deserve to be mentioned! They will be fun to watch the next 3 years.

Other sophomores to watch for are:
Tate Aaronson from Dakota Prairie, and Ellery Bresnahan and Ben Sunquist from Casselton.

[gobison#6]

Its surprising that if Langdon and Grafton have such good 10th graders, why don't we ever hear from these teams in Babe Ruth State Tournaments. I remember Grafton being in it in 2007 and 2006, but I haven't heard of them since or Langdon at all.

Do these towns still have Babe Ruth programs? You would think they would be able to with the size of their populations.

Grafton was upset by Manvel in the playin game for the state tournament. Langdon has not registered their teams for state tournament play the last few years. In the league tournament Grafton took first, Langdon second, and Manvel fourth and they ended up second at state tournament.

Joey Demers and Nathan Linstad from Midway are clearly the best 2 players out of the NE corner of the state as Sophomores. No one else should even be mentioned.

Grafton was beaten by MIDWAY-MANVEL soundly twice in the "Sanctioned" tournament and Joey Demers was out dueled by Nathan Linstad in the winners bracket 8-0. Midway-Manvel pretty much walked through the first 3 days of this years state tournament outscoring their opponents 38-4. They ended up falling twice to Casselton the last day and took 2nd place.

For a long time Grafton was the only team that was sanctioned as a "BABE RUTH" program. However there is a non sanctioned league comprised of Grafton, Park River, Cavalier, Minto, Midway, Manvel, Langdon, Munich, and Drayton-St Thomas. About 3 years ago Midway sanctioned their program and this year St. Thomas joined as well. Thats why you never see some of these teams during the state Babe Ruth tournament and then see them win or finish high at state in HS or Legion.

This year do to numbers Cavalier did not field a BR team and Midway-Manvel co-oped. Midway-Manvel did not throw their top 3 pitchers in the "non-sanctioned" tournament do to playing in the "Sanctioned" District Best of 3 games against Cando with the chance to go to state 2 days later and took 4th place in the “non-sanctioned tourney” losing on a walk off home run to Drayton-St-Thomas. When all of Midway-Manvels players were there and were using one of their top 3 pitchers they clearly had the best team in the league.

Back to Linstad, according to the stats on http://www.kmav.com for this years state Babe Ruth tournament in 5 games he hit .462 going 6x13 with a double and 6RBI, drew 7 walks, scored 6 runs, and stole 5 bases. He also had a 1.27ERA on the mound in 11 innings with 15 Ks. In legion he threw a 3 hitter against the Grand Forks Blues and a 5 hitter against Yorkton Sask in the Fargo Red River Diamond Classic. The exact same Yorkton team beat the Fargo Bombers for the title of the Bomber tournament the year before. He was arguably the best player at the BR state tournament. Because of Midways low numbers Linstad will be playing high school ball for Minto unless administrators agree to change the co-op name to Midway-Minto or minto-midway.

I agree with Joey Demers and Ty Bruner. Both are great players and deserve to be mentioned! They will be fun to watch the next 3 years.

Other sophomores to watch for are:
Tate Aaronson from Dakota Prairie, and Ellery Bresnahan and Ben Sunquist from Casselton.

Bresnahan is only a freshman. He golfs too and Sundquist also runs track. Central Cass has a strong senior class with a pretty good junior class as well so you might not see much of Sundquist or Bresnehan this season. Maybe they will prove themselves though, you never know.

[a-simple-fan]

Other sophomores to watch for are:
Tate Aaronson from Dakota Prairie, and Ellery Bresnahan and Ben Sunquist from Casselton.

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Tate Aaronson is a junior and plays his high school baseball at Lakota.

[InTheKnow]

Unfortunately the programs at the State Babe Ruth tournament only list ages and not grade so i made a couple incorrect guesses of of what I thought i remembered from 5 months ago. Usually a player in his last year of babe ruth is going into his sophomore year. Since the rule change that is not always the case anymore.

[gobison#6]

Ellery also has one year left of eligibity