Cardinals Can’t Contain The Dragons
Apr 23, 2025 11:36AM ● By Jody Reeves
The Cardinals caught one of the Dragons in a pickle and perfectly executed the out.
The Soda Springs baseball team took on the Malad Dragons twice last week. Their first meeting was in Soda Springs on Wednesday. The game was competitive in the early going. Each team held the other scoreless in the first inning. In the top of the second inning the Dragons went on a little run scoring three times. The Cardinals were unable to answer in the bottom of the inning. The third inning was once again void of runs from either team. Over the next two innings the Cardinals were able to limit the number of runs scored by the Dragons to five total but still failed to earn any runs of their own. In the top of the sixth inning the Cardinals gave up one run before getting their first out. They followed the first out with a quick second out keeping the door open for the Cardinals. Unfortunately the Dragons were able to score seven more runs before the Cardinals were able to get the third out. Now trailing by sixteen with last bats the Cardinals needed a hot streak that did not come. The Cardinals did get a pair of runners on base but finished the game striking out at the plate.
After the loss at home the Cardinals had to travel to Malad to face the Dragons in the second game of the week on Friday. This game did not go much better for the Cardinals. Soda Springs was held scoreless for the first four innings while the Dragons scored runs in each of those innings. Soda Springs had now gone ten innings against the Dragons without a run. In the fifth inning the Cardinals finally got on the board with a single run but that hardly put a dent in the lead. The Cardinals finished the game with their best inning of the game scoring three more runs. However when the game ended the Cardinals were still well short of earning a win. Dillworth, who leads the team in RBI's, added two more in this game while the runs were scored by four separate Cards, Kirby, Dunford, Carpenter, and McCullough.
The Cardinals will next be in action Thursday at home against Marsh Valley.
Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dragons 0 3 0 3 2 8 16
Cardinals 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
Dragons 1 3 2 3 1 4 14
