Cardinal Baseball To Begin District Play

Jody Reeves

The Soda Springs baseball team has finished the regular season with a 3-17 record.  Though they did not have the season they hoped for, the district tournament gives them an opportunity at a clean slate.  The Cards ended the regular season with two losses last week.  On Thursday they hosted Malad.  Soda was able to keep things close in the first inning but still trailed 5-2 going into the second.  In the top of the second Malad would knock in nine more runs and increase their lead to insurmountable heights.  The Cardinals failed to get on base in the bottom of the inning leading to the Dragons taking another shot at the plate.  Things quickly got out of control as Malad continued to score runs.  By the time that the third inning ended the game would be called and Soda would suffer its worst loss on the year. 

The Cardinals would have to turn right around the next day and travel to Bear Lake.  The Cards had just defeated the Bears in a thriller at home the prior week.  The Cardinals would once again struggle to get on base early in this game.  After one inning Soda was already trailing 5-0.  Things would tighten up after that as both teams’ defenses would go to work.  Over the next four innings there would only be one run scored by either team.  That run would come from Hansen who would get on base following the catcher dropping a pitch.  Hansen would then steal his way to third base before getting batted in by Kirby.  After failing to score in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings Soda would give up one run to Bear Lake falling behind by the score of 6-1 entering the final inning.  Soda would need to score to keep the game going.  Unfortunately the Cardinals failed once again to get on base and the final would stay at 6-1.  

The Cardinals will have to turn things around in a hurry as they will travel to Malad for the first round of district play.