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Sometimes a lengthy break from competition can disrupt a team’s momentum and flow, but that hasn’t been the case for Barre’s 9-to-11-year-old Little League All-Star team. The Granite City squad was unchallenged at the local level this past week and anointed District IV champs as a result. There was an additional pause in action due to last Tuesday’s heavy rainfall, which wreaked havoc throughout Central Vermont.

But instead of showing signs of rust, the Barre boys were fresh as a daisy for the state tournament in St. Albans while earning two straight shutout victories to lock up a spot in the winner’s bracket final. Dynamite efforts on the mound from starting pitchers Holden Mayo and Miles Marineau propelled coach John Mayo’s squad past Essex Town and Brattleboro, setting up a winner-take-all title game next Sunday at 11 a.



m. Barre will face the winner of Saturday’s 11 a.m.

semifinal between Champlain Valley and Brattleboro. “Whoever we play, it will be a great matchup Sunday,” coach Mayo said. “And I know the boys will be ready to play, that’s for sure.

” A new change this year resulted in a tourney structure featuring a modified double-elimination format up to the finals, at which point teams will face off for all the marbles. That means that Barre could suffer its first setback next Sunday and still be ousted. “The downside is that we could lose one game and we’d be out of it,” coach Mayo said.

“But we’re lucky because we have around six di.

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