MISQUAH — The Legion nine split a doubleheader with Two Rivers on Wednesday under what the program is pleased to report were two working light towers — a fifty-percent improvement over the lone tower the team practiced under last month, and, by general agreement among the dozen or so present, the most light Memorial Field has thrown since the Obama administration.

The extra tower did not help in the opener, a 4–1 loss in which Post 162 managed three hits and, by Coach Dahl’s count, “about nine good takes at strike three, which is a thing you can do all night and still lose, and we proved it.” The bats woke in the nightcap. Ben Aune drove in three with a double to the gap and a sacrifice fly, the kind of quietly complete game that gets a player named in the paper and embarrasses him to see it; Cody Lindholm went the distance on the mound, scattering six hits in a 7–3 win before a crowd that stayed, as crowds here stay, mostly to talk to one another and only incidentally to watch.

“We saw the ball better, I’ll give the lights that much,” Dahl said, “and we still dropped a game, so don’t go writing that the towers fixed us, because the towers did not fix us, the towers just let us watch ourselves more clearly.” Lindholm, asked about the win, credited the wind, which had died off after the first game — “easier to throw strikes when the flag’s not moving” — a deflection his coach said was entirely consistent with a pitcher who “won’t take a compliment if you corner him with it and a fielder behind him.”

The third and fourth light towers remain “on the list,” where they have sat since the list was started, and where, residents of the third-base side note with the resignation of people who face the dark ones, they are likely to stay. Post 162 is home Friday against Pine City — under, in all likelihood, the same two towers, before a crowd that will, in all likelihood, stay to talk.