PAGE 10 PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2012 Sights, Sounds (And Smells) From State Amateur Tourney In Mitchell Press&Dakotan BY JAMES D. CIMBUREK have been eliminated and a few places that don’t even have teams here.
[email protected] The crowds, as always, are your typical small-town game crowds, only multiplied. Fans are there to relax, DAILY DOSE cheer on their local boys and, maybe, harass an umpire or two. When the gams end, the fans gather behind MITCHELL — Sitting in the stands down the first base line at Cadwell Park, you could see why teams and each teams‚ respective dugouts to congratulate or console. fans don’t mind making the trip to Mitchell’s Cadwell Park for the South Dakota State Amateur Baseball Tour- Some of the towns represented are ones whose high schools have been long closed: Canova, Tabor and Daily opinions from the P&D nament. Renner, for example. Lesterville, Northville and others are represented in spirit, by the pickup players dotting Sports Staff on local and na- Fans filled the grandstand, as well as some of the scattered smaller stands that line both baselines at the several rosters. Win or lose, the days at Cadwell are a celebration, flavored with Exchange Club burgers, a few beverages tional high school, college perennial home of the state tournament. They weren’t all from Wessington Springs and Alexandria, the two teams that happened to be playing while I was sitting around waiting to go to work, but from places whose teams — adult and otherwise — as well as popsicles and sunflower seeds.