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Cloquet set for playoffs

The Cloquet VFW baseball team finished its regular season Tuesday with a disappointing loss to Proctor, but second-year coach Greg Thompson said the young team has continued to improve.

"We wanted to improve from last season and we did just that - finishing the regular season with a 6-14 record," Thompson said.

The team split a doubleheader with West Duluth Monday. Joe Baker pitched the team to an 11-7 win in the first game, but the Cloquet team dropped the second game by a score of 7-3.

Numbers were a challenge this year.

"We had to pull up three eighth-graders this year to fill out our compl...