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🌱 How Morton handed state-bound Tremont one of its only losses
Morton, Illinois Patch AM: a 3 min readGood morning Morton! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️
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- How Morton handed state-bound Tremont one of its only losses
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📰 News we're reading
• Red hot Tremont keeps head coach warm on journey to state baseball tournament (centralillinoisproud.com) — Morton’s baseball team is noted as one of only two squads to beat red-hot Tremont this season, handing the Turks a 3-0 loss back in March. Tremont has since ripped off 24 straight wins and is headed to the Class 1A state tournament in Champaign, riding a .357 team batting average and a superstition-filled, always-layered head coach. 
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🗞 Nearby News
East Peoria
- Raiders feel support from East Peoria as they march to state baseball finals (centralillinoisproud.com)
- As luck would have it (fordcountychronicle.com)
- Clinton Journal awarded at Illinois Press Association convention (theclintonjournal.com)
Tremont
- 60th edition of Tremont Turkey Festival to start Thursday (wmbdradio.com)
- 1A State Finals Preview (prepbaseballreport.com)
Washington
- New Washington coach: ‘It's been a whirlwind' (centralillinoisproud.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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