They were games of firsts for the Medical Lake baseball crew last week, when they notched both their first win and first loss in NEA league play in games against visiting Newport and Riverside.

Newport vs. Medical Lake

It was a Bennett Soliday sacrifice fly in the seventh inning that gave the Cardinals their first win of the season on Thursday, March 28 in a Northeast A League play against visiting Newport.

“It was ugly baseball early,” head coach Austin Sharp said of the many missed fly balls and dropped or missed throws.

But ugly is as ugly does, and in the end it’s what you do wi...