Uneven games played, tightly bunched middle
Roseau Royals 8-2 in the league, 12-5 overall, plus 20. Bemidji Blue Ox 5-3 and 12-6, plus 10. Fosston Trash Pandas 5-3 and 6-5, plus 12. Warroad Muskies 3-4 and 6-7, minus 4. Bemidji Bucks 3-5 and 8-14, level on runs. Agassiz Gamblers 3-7 and 7-10, minus 3, six straight defeats. Hibbing Miners 2-1 and 7-5, plus 6. Rainy Lake North Stars 1-5 and 1-7, minus 41.
Hibbing have played three league games and everybody else between eight and ten, which is what happens when one club is two hundred miles from the rest.
Five of the eight sit within a few runs of level, so the middle of this league is genuinely close.
Rainy Lake are 1-7 with a minus 41 differential, or better than five runs a game.
Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves, so a club playing three fixtures and a club playing ten still rank honestly.
Northwest Border League in detail
- Eight clubs across the top of Minnesota, including Trash Pandas and a Blue Ox.
- Ten league games for some clubs and three for Hibbing, two hundred miles away.
- No results, and a Bemidji Bucks side sitting on a differential of exactly zero.
- Eight clubs, two of them from Bemidji, one from a glacial lake.
- Run differential, and five of eight clubs within twelve runs of level.
- No contact for the league or any of its eight clubs.
- No form, no fee, and a Rainy Lake side that has won once in eight.
- No ballparks named, across a league that spans most of northern Minnesota.
- Class A, B and C in one league, and one town fielding two of them.
- Nothing specific to this league appears in the association's feed.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Three classifications, three brackets, and one town in two of them.
- No founding year, and a club named after a lake that vanished ten thousand years ago.
- No league officers named; the association publishes its own board.
- How good it is, answered. How far you would drive, not.
- Association documents and classification criteria, none of them this league's.
- Between three and ten league games played, and no dates published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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