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Ward graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a minor in psychology. He also has 21-hour concentration in environmental science, social studies and education.
Ward started following sports in southeast Missouri when he was five-years-old in 1991. In the 2009-10 basketball season, he watched 84 varsity basketball teams play a total of 147 varsity games. He has also attended the state basketball, baseball and volleyball tournaments the last three seasons. His favorite baseball memory is watching the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers in the 2011 World Series.
Ward completed an internship in the summer of 2010 at semoball.com. During the internship he had the opportunity to visit and photograph the athletic facilities at all 58 semoball schools. He also researched the district and state championship histories of 55 schools and used the Cover it Live application to cover the Senior Babe Ruth state baseball tournament. After the internship he served as sports editor at Daily Dunklin Democrat in Kennett, Mo., from 2011-2013.
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Midwest Plains Regional begins Friday in Kansas (schedule included)
The schedule is set for the highly anticipated Senior Babe Ruth Midwest Plains Regional Tournament.
The event is slated to take place July 24-27 at Battershell Field in Lyons, Kansas.
Eight teams are slated to compete at the tournament.
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri No. 2 (Charleston Fighting Squirrels) and North Dakota are competing in the American League Pool.
Iowa, host Lyons, Minnesota and Missouri state champion Wayne County Lumberjacks are competing in the National League Pool
The teams finishing first and second in each pool advance to a four-team winner-take-all bracket. The winner of bracket play advances to the Senior Babe Ruth World Series. The World Series is August 8-15 in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Charleston Fighting Squirrels play North Dakota Friday at noon, Kansas Saturday at 3 p.m. and Colorado Sunday at noon.
Wayne County Lumberjacks play host Lyons Friday at 8 p.m., Iowa Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and Minnesota Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Semifinals are Monday at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The third-place game is Monday at 3 p.m. with the championship to follow at 5:30 p.m.
View a complete schedule for the tournament below:
AMERICAN LEAGUE POOL
Friday
Charleston Fighting Squirrels 10, North Dakota 4
Colorado 8, Kansas 5
Saturday
North Dakota 9, Colorado 6 (10 Innings)
Charleston Fighting Squirrels 3, Kansas 2 (10 Innings)
Sunday
Charleston Fighting Squirrels 7, Colorado 1
Kansas 15, North Dakota 5
NATIONAL LEAGUE POOL
Friday
Minnesota 6, Iowa, 2
Wayne County Lumberjacks 1, Lyons, Kansas, 0
Saturday
Wayne County Lumberjacks 2, Iowa 0
Minnesota 5, Lyons, Kansas 1
Sunday
Wayne County Lumberjacks 12, Minnesota 3
Iowa vs. Lyons, Kansas, 7:30 p.m.
BRACKET PLAY
Monday
Game 13: Hopkins, Minnesota, 4 vs. Charleston Fighting Squirrels 2
Game 14 Wayne County Lumberjacks 6, Riverton, Kansas, 0
Game 15 Hopkins, Minnesota, vs. Wayne County Lumberjacks, 4 p.m.
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