Errors all add up in Cards' softball losses

An up and down offense and defense made for an up and down week for the Medical Lake softball team.

When errors crept into the line score, so did the losses, 7-1 to Chewelah on April 17 and 10-2 to Colville. But when the defense did its job — and the offense, too — the Cardinals prevailed over Riverside 16-1.

In the two losses, Medical Lake (3-5 NEA, 4-7 overall) committed five errors in each contest.

“We were down 2-1 going into the sixth inning,” at Chewelah, head coach Tim Blakely wrote in an email. “Then the errors took over, after committing three errors in the sixth inning and after the...