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Entering the season, many people weren’t sure what to make of the Walpole American Legion Post 104 baseball team’s fortunes.

A program that has been a postseason regular and finished second in the state in 2008 missed the playoffs a year ago, and Walpole High, where the squad gets the bulk of its roster from, was absent from the playoffs for just the second time in the past 32 seasons under coach Bill Tompkins.

Armed with a veteran pitching staff, however, Post 104 got back to the top of District 6 West for its third regular season title in four years and into the South sectionals, where they narrowly missed earning a third State Final Eight berth in the four years, falling 11-10 last Wednesday to host New Bedford Post 1 in Bracket B while attempting to force a decisive game in the four-team double elimination tournament.

Walpole got itself in an 11-2 hole, but scored six times in the seventh to make a game of it as Troy Salvatore and Chris Ferro each knocked in a pair to help fuel the rally. The score remained 11-8 entering …