Medical Lake completes baseball about face

Last year about this time the players and coaches involved in Medical Lake baseball could have easily packed it in.

The Cardinals were in the process of exiting the Great Northern League and that was about as comfortable as getting tossed out of a moving car with their 1-17 record and losses of 18-0 to West Valley and 11-2 to Pullman as the season drew to a close.

It didn’t get a lot better come time for American Legion play either as Medical Lake’s AA League entry finished 5-14. “You can hang your head and say ‘here we go again; it doesn’t matter what we do we’re not going to win,’” Kelly sai...