The sixth inning proved to be the difference as the Post #49 Bulls edged Wolf Point, 9-5, in a well-played American Legion baseball contest played in Froid on Thursday, June 17. Wolf Point enjoyed the better of it early in the game. The Yellow Jackets opened with four runs in the top of the first inning as Preston Swenson, Gage Bushman, Charlie Page and Terry Allmer all crossed the plate. Allmer

On a sun-baked oil pad not too far from the North Dakota border, the iconic infrastructure of the Bakken oil field towers over pink gravel, pumpjacks pulling energy-packed hydrocarbons from thousands of feet deep beneath the eastern Montana prairie. A flare stack and multi-story storage containers stand along the pad’s perimeter, along with a sign announcing the site’s owner, Houston- based