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Ryan Huray leaps to tag out a runner during a snoftball game Saturday at Pinehurst Park in Cloquet.
Josh Lintula catches the ball to tag out Leah Hammond while Lee Harris watches from second base.
Snow sculptor Tim Young Sr. carved this youthful softball player in a mound of snow at Pinehurst Park in honor of Saturday's "snoftball" tournament.
Six different teams from Carlton County and as far afield as Grand Rapids and Superior took to the softball diamond Saturday for a tournament in the snow.
They call it "snoftball" and it was a ball, said Lee Harris, player, tournament organizer and board member of the nonprofit Kingdom Builders Ministries and its Common Ground coffee shop.
"The snow was a challenge, but also it was an absolute blast," said Harris, noting that between tournament play and a special combo team made up of people from all the teams, nearly everyone played five or six games throughout the day. The Northwoods Church League team from Superior won the tournament.
A snow sculpture of a kid playing softball by local snow artist Tim Young Sr. was the icing on the cake, said Harris.
"We've got big plans for next year already," said Harris, explaining that they'd like to make the tournament part of a larger winter festival in the future.
