MISQUAH — The season ended Friday evening in Cambridge, 8–2, against a team that had eleven more players than we did and a second light tower, both of which Sonny mentions and neither of which is an excuse.

Thursday was better. Post 162 opened section play against Braham — the same club they beat on senior night eight days earlier — and won 6–4 behind Cody Lindholm, who threw six innings on full rest and got the last out of the sixth on a ball that stayed in the park by about the length of this sentence. Ben Aune drove in two, which surprises nobody who has read this page all summer. Owen Bergstrom caught both games in two days, which at his knees is its own athletic achievement, and had two hits Friday.

Friday, Cambridge scored four in the third and the bullpen — which has been asked to do a summer’s worth of work since the end of July — did not have it. That happens in August. It happened to a lot of teams in that bracket.

Final record 17–12. The four seniors — Aune, Tyler Ruud, Marcus Solberg, and Bergstrom — have played together since they were fourteen, on the Pike rec nine, and Friday night they took a long time in that parking lot before they got on the bus, and Manager Randy Dolen let them. “They’ve got the rest of their lives to be efficient,” he said.

The banquet is in September at the Northern Tap, date to be set, where the light-tower fund — which stood at $1,142 after opening day and $1,452 after the fair — will be reported honestly and slowly, and where the men’s league will also settle its pencil asterisk, and where, per every year on record, nothing will be settled.