TUESDAY
Boys Basketball
Hermantown at Princeton, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball
Hermantown at North Branch, 7 p.m.
Boys Hockey
Duluth Marshall at Hermantown, 7 p.m.
Girls Hockey
Proctor-Hermantown at Hibbing, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
Girls Hockey
Delano at Hermantown-Proctor, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball
Grand Rapids at Hermantown, 7:15 p.m.
SATURDAY
Girls Hockey
Proctor-Hermantown at South St. Paul, 1 p.m.
Boys Hockey
Mahtomedi at Hermantown, 1 p.m.
His stat line towered over the league: a .383 batting average, 17 home runs, 68 RBIs, 23 doubles, three triples, 48 runs scored, 28 walks, and 15 stolen bases over 52 games. His OPS landed at 1.252, powered by a .471 on-base percentage and a .781 slugging percentage.
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Duluth residents simply need this summer emotionally. They need concerts at Bayfront and families along the Lakewalk. They need baseball games, festivals and tourists asking directions. They need reminders that life cannot become an endless cycle of bills, politics, inflation, anxiety and survival.
Hairball works at Bayfront Festival Park because the band understands something many modern entertainers, marketers and civic leaders often miss entirely: people are starving for shared experiences that feel emotionally uncomplicated.
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Bayfront remains one of the few places where the city still functions the way a healthy city is supposed to function: as a shared public space where people continue gathering together because they genuinely want to be there. Every summer, Duluth remembers that again.