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Drew Branstrom (back left), Nick Hassig (front left), Landon Moseley and Mason Bertrand watch the competition in between doubleheaders at Mid-America Sports complex Friday. The boys are all players on the 12-U Rebels team.

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Lawrence 88s shortstop Michael McCabe watches his teammates bat during a Thursday night league game against the Topeka Young Guns. The 88s play in the Shawnee County Amateur Baseball Association's Gopher league for 11 and 12 year olds.

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Nathan Pederson watches his older brother in Friday's 11-U Rebels game at Mid-America Sports Complex wearing a shirt that says "I have no life...my brother plays competitive baseball!" Pederson plays Tball in the Lawrence Parks and Recreation league.

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Rebels players run to shake hands with the Blue Springs White Sox after a 5-2 win. The 11-U Rebels split a doubleheader in the USSSA Rawlings National Qualifier at Mid-America Sports Complex in Shawnee.

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Deb Rawlings cheered for her 8 year-old son Darren at the Youth Sports Inc. on Tuesday.

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Gary Denning of Fort Wayne, Indiana, watches his grandson Andrew. 8, at YSI on Tuesday, June 8th.

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A Lawrence 88s player fields a ball thrown from the left fielder while warming up between innings of Thursday's Shawnee County Amateur Baseball Association's Gopher league game. The 88s won the game 9-7.

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Lawrence 88s shortstop Michael McCabe watches his teammates bat during a Thursday night league game against the Topeka Young Guns. The 88s play in the Shawnee County Amateur Baseball Association's Gopher league for 11 and 12 year olds.

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Lawrence 88's thirdbaseman Jack Bush avoids water in the dugout at the Thursday Shawnee County Amateur Baseball Association Gopher league game. SCABA league games were a few of the only games played in the area Wednesday and Thursday despite rain.

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Justin Balster flied out to the Topeka Young Guns secondbaseman in Thursday's Lawrence 88s Shawnee County Amateur Baseball Association Gopher league game in Topeka. The 88s won the game 9-7.

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Jeffrey Ahle, 11, gets ready to bunt while campers Alex Thompson, 12, (left), Cory White (right), 12, and others look on Thursday at the Free State High baseball camp.

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Jonathan Cohen, 11, starts his swing during the distance-hitting contest Thursday at the Free State High baseball camp.

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Cameron Hartford, 14, practices his swing Thursday at the Free State High School baseball camp.

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Jeffrey Ahle, 11, throws the ball while coach Lorenzo Ricketts looks on at the Free State high school baseball camp on Thursday.