Deer Park scores big in end of 11-1 softball victory

Things were going well for Medical Lake most of the afternoon in the opening round of the Northeast A League playoffs at Deer Park, May 17.

The Cardinals and Stags were tied 1-1 through four and a half innings.

Then the wheels fell off in disasterous fashion as a couple of timely base hits and a pair of costly errors quickly opened the flood gates and Deer Park raced to an 11-1 win in a loser-out game.

“We left a couple of balls out over the plate and they were able to make good contact and get base hits,” head coach Tim Blakely said. “They had a couple of base hits and a couple of misplayed b...