Texas scored 4 runs in the fourth inning Friday night, a play that proved too difficult for the Fargo Little League baseball team to overcome.
The four-point frame helped Needville, Texas to a 6-2 victory over Fargo in the League League World Series at Lamade Stadium. Texas is the champion of the Southwest.
The Fargo 12U All-Stars, the first North Dakota to qualify for the occasion, was making its Little League World Series debut. Fargo is scheduled to play at 1 p. m. (CDT) on Sunday at Lamade Stadium and televised nationally by ABC.
Fargo, the Midwest champion, is 0-1 in the doubleheader. Texas is 2-0 in the tournament. The matches are scheduled for six rounds.
Mason Kirchner scored twice for Fargo and Colin Hanson added a two-run single. Reese Evenson hit a single in the sixth inning for Fargo’s third and final hit. Fargo limited Texas to two hits.
Texas scored two runs the moment it entered a hit, drove in 3 runs on balls and added a batter for one hit. A base on balls by Jayson Arispe scored Colten Georgi from third base. Jakolby White scored on a delayed home flight for a 2-0 lead.
U. S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will visit Fargo on Monday, Aug. 21, according to a press release from the U. S. Department of Justice. U. S.
Friday’s announcement said Garland would meet with local, state and federal law enforcement officials, though the main points on the issues the Justice Department leader plans to discuss were not disclosed.
The media were invited to the occasion at the United States Courthouse Quentin N. Burdick in downtown Fargo.
The simmering spread of the coronavirus is spreading in North Dakota, but it’s unlikely to erupt into a primary conflagration of cases, as many other people have some point of immunity to vaccination or herbal infection, experts say.
In the U. S. , COVID-19 infections have surged, with a 14. 3 increase in hospitalizations over the past week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, public health officials warn that the spread of cases is largely invisible, as few control effects are reported and cases in North Dakota are gradually increasing.
The Service released its report on the waterfowl population in 2023 on Friday.
Total populations were estimated at 32. 3 million breeding ducks in the classical study area, down 7 percent from the 2022 estimate of 34. 7 million and nine percent below the long-term average since 1955, the Service reported.
The overall numbers are a complex dating between waterfowl, climate and habitat availability, said UD lead scientist Steve Adair.
“These effects are somewhat disappointing, as we expected higher production in the eastern grasslands after wet situations advanced in the spring of 2022,” Adair said. Most likely, it has affected overall production. In the past, we have noticed that population expansion changes moisture situations such as small, shallow wetlands due to the lingering effects of severe drought.
From the Bismarck Tribune Forum News Service
About 60% of North Dakota citizens and parts of state government experienced outages on Thursday, August 17.
The outages affected Internet service that is part of the Dakota Carrier Network, a communications networking company based in Bismarck.
A software bug in DCN’s major routers causing the outages, according to CEO Seth Arndorfer. The error is not malicious.
“If you think about a rush of traffic to a port, a port, that closes the port, and that’s what ended up failing because of this mistake,” he said.
DCN won the first signs of a challenge Thursday morning and the company received reports of widespread outages in the early afternoon.
Most traffic recovered after 3 hours. Everything was restored just before 7 p. m. , according to Arndorfer.