Topsy-turvy week for Panthers baseball
It was a stretch full of performances both impressive and disappointing as the Glencoe-Silver Lake baseball team squeezed in five games last week.
The week commenced with a convincing 15-5 win at New London-Spicer in the Panthers’ first road game of the season on Tuesday, April 14. GSL returned to Vollmer Field with a thrilling, come-from-behind defeat of Dassel-Cokato on Thursday, April 16, before hitting the wall in an 8-0 loss to visiting Hutchinson the next day — a game in which the Panthers could not muster up a single hit.
“In the D-C game I was very happy with a relentlessness of not giving up and battling back in the final inning to pull out the victory,” coach Dean Schwirtz said. “In the Hutch game, nothing seemed to go our way.”
GSL recovered from Friday’s blanking by claiming a split in the Watertown-Mayer Tournament on Saturday, losing 9-7 to the hosts in the tourney opener before defeating Rockford 9-6. The split kept the Panthers’ record above .500 at 4-2 entering this week.
For more on this story, see the April 22 issue of the Chronicle.