It's a numbers game, again, for Cardinals

MEDICAL LAKE - Building things is second nature to Medical Lake baseball coach Austin Sharp.

Because when he's not teaching the game, Sharp is in the construction business where from time to time he likely has to improvise. That is the perfect skill required for Cardinal baseball which is regularly short on players.

"Right now, our numbers are about as low as I've ever had them," Sharp said. "We've got 26 signed up, but my upper classes are just very light. I have five total kids, juniors and seniors, that's it."

This comes in contrast to post-COVID days in 2021 when the current famine turned...