Rough week for ML baseball

It was, to say the least, a week that most would rather forget in the Medical Lake community.

And that seemed most certain for the Cardinal baseball team which went winless in three Northeast A League games, losing 5-1 at home to Riverside on April 10, then being clubbed in a doubleheader loss to Freeman, 20-1 and 15-0 Saturday, April 14.

In Saturday’s games, played at Whitworth University’s Merkel Field and rescheduled from the previous day at Medical Lake (1-4 NEA, 3-7 overall), the team played under the pall of bad news.

First it was word of a serious accident involving members of the track...