Soda Baseball Had A Busy Week

The Cardinal baseball team had a full slate of games last week, keeping them extremely busy.  The Cards started things off with district opponent Malad.  The Cardinals struggled early on in this one, and after three innings they trailed the Dragons 7-0.  The next three innings tightened up and the Cardinals got on the board with McCullough and Stephens scoring on hits from Dillworth and Irick.  That would be all the scoring for the Cardinals and they would come up short by the score of 8-2.

Soda Springs continued their busy week making the long trip to Ashton to take on the North Fremont Huskies in a double header.  Game one of the double header was a defensive battle.  The Cardinals surrendered a run in the first inning before scoring a run in each of the second and third innings.  Those runs came from Bowen with some creative base running in the second and Kyen Kirby, who scored from second base on a long fly ball hit by Dunford.  The scoring stalled for the rest of the game, and the Cardinals took game one with a score of 2-1.  Game two of the double header started off with a bang for the Huskies as they quickly grabbed a 5-0 lead.  The Cardinals were not able to dig out of that hole as they came away with just one run in the game that came from Horsley in the top of the third inning.  Soda went on to drop game two of the double header by the score of 11-1.

With three games already under their belt, the Cardinals were not done for the week as they hosted the Marsh Valley JV team in a double header on Saturday.  The Cardinals found themselves down early once again as they trailed 4-0 after the top of the first.  Some missteps by the Eagles pitcher combined with a big triple by Kage Kirby that brought in Irick and Peterson finally got the Cards on the board, trailing 5-2 at the end of the second inning.  Stephens and McCullough would keep the scoring going for Soda in the third but the deficit would remain at three runs with the score now 7-4.  Some pitching fatigue combined with some untimely errors saw the Eagles go on a run of scoring in the fourth inning and the lead extended to 16-4.  The Kirby brothers each scored a run in the fourth, but the Cardinals were not able to mount much more of a comeback in this one as they eventually fell 19-6.  In the second game of the double header Dunford was the first Cardinal to score as the game was close early on in the first.  However, once again in the second inning the Cardinal defense broke down, allowing the Eagles to score eight runs and bringing the overall score to 9-1.  The lead only grew from there for the Eagles as they took a commanding 12-1 lead into the bottom of the fifth and final inning.  Cutler got a run off an Eagle error, and Irick, Stephens and Kirby all got on base, but the game would come to a close with the Cardinals on the wrong side of the win-loss column with a final score of 12-2.  The Cardinals will get to catch their breath after a busy week before traveling to Bear Lake on Friday to take on the Bears.