SPRING VALLEY, WI – A loss or two in a season is considered an excellent season, two losses in a week could be the start of a streak that the Spring Valley baseball team doesn’t want though.
That was just the case last week as the Cardinals dropped a tough game to conference leading Elk Mound on the road in the bottom of the seventh, then lost to Mondovi at home here on Friday. The pair of losses drops the Cardinals to 5-3 overall and 3-2 in conference play, tied for third place in the D-SC with Boyceville, whom the Cardinals were scheduled to play this week.
Elk Mound 5, Spring Valley 4 – The Cardinals struggled at the plate until late in the game against the Mounders when pitching limits forced a change on the mound for the home team. Elk Mound plated a run in the bottom of the first inning off a lead-off walk and an error, but after that the game the remained 1-0 until a rally in the sixth inning for both teams.
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