06/11/2026
⚾🥎 Happy National Little League Week! (June 8–14)
Little League is about more than the game - it’s where kids build confidence, learn teamwork, and make lifelong memories. 💙
Here in Carver, that tradition runs deep. Check out this 1968 Weekly Valley Herald article highlighting one of our community’s great Little League teams!
A big thank you to all the coaches, volunteers, and families who make this experience so special for our kids.
celebrates Little League Baseball, the organization that first organized the fan favorite sport into leagues and teams for pr***en players. The Little League Baseball nonprofit has been around since 1939! To celebrate the week, take a look at this news article from 1968, celebrating the superb run of Carver’s Little League team that year, despite its sudden end.
Weekly Valley Herald, September 5, 1968
“Carver – Little League Champs!
Carver’s Black Sox, regular league season champions in the Carver County Little League[,] fell prey to a long-standing playoff jinx when eliminated by the Victoria Lions in this year’s playoffs. The Carver nine lost only one game during regular league play before losing a one-run 14-13 “sudden death” playoff. Pictured above, left to right, FRONT ROW is Ronnie Wiebe, Steven Dressen, Tim Gulden, Kevin Gulden, Neil Schultz, Tom Riesgraf, Rich Riesgarf [sic], and Joey Schultz. BACK ROW, left to right, are Eldon Sextxon [sic], Steve Heinrich, Brad Gulden, Kevin Dauwalter, Wayne Dauwalter, Terry Pauly, Randy Caeser, Denny Dauwalter, Gayle Kling, LeRoy Luedloff, Brian Lenzen, Jerry Chalupsky, and LaMont Schultz, team manager. Missing when the picture was taken was Robert Bachman, a pitcher for the Carver team who had an appendectomy when the above photo was taken.”
