The consistency is kind of what’s been plaguing us this year and so it was good to see that the last three games. This group has always strived to get better and better.”

Park coach David Darr

Host White Bear Lake dropped the visiting Park Wolfpack 5-1 in Suburban East Conference baseball Monday afternoon.

It was the second straight game where the Wolfpack managed just a single run and coming after an 11-1 win over Roseville on Wednesday, May 8.

Park (3-11, 4-11) hosts third-ranked Stillwater (11-4, 13-4) Wednesday, Forest Lake (6-9, 7-9) on Friday and then plays at Cretin-Derham Hall (9-6, 9-6) Monday, May 20 in the final conference game of the season.

East Ridge 13, Park 1

East Ridge dominated Park in a game at Cottage Grove Monday, May 6, winning 13-1. The game was a marked contrast to the first time the two teams played this season, that one a 15-14 slugfest won the Raptors. This one was all East Ridge.

Park 3, Cretin-Derham Hall 2

Park scored a tight 3-2 win in nine innings over the Cretin-Derham Hall Raiders Tuesday, May 7, at Cottage Grove.

Park took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a leadoff single by Brett Salmonson who evenly came across to score the first run of the game. Cretin tied the game at 1-all with a run in the sixth. The Raiders then scored again in the seventh, but Park came back with a run of its own in the seventh to send the game into extra innings.

Park 11, Roseville 1

The Wolfpack had one of their best afternoons of the season Wednesday, Nay 8, dropping host Roseville 11-1 in an SEC matchup.

Woodbury 6, Park 1

Park scored first, but fifth-ranked Woodbury took a 4-1 lead in the second inning and never looked back in a 6-1 Suburban East Conference baseball win at Cottage Grove Friday afternoon.

The loss snapped a two-game Park winning streak.

“For the way the game ended Monday and the last four innings or so, we did not play well at all” said Park coach David Darr. “We responded really well against Cretin on Tuesday and came out Wednesday. Even today it was 6-to-1 but we did not play bad. We hit the ball solid and right at them and they made some really good plays and that’s baseball. That’s kind of how it goers. We had a couple of bad hops and the ball bounces over our third baseman’s head on a possible double play ball and they took advantage of getting base runners on and they got little this here and there and those runs added up.

“But I thought the last three games, including today, we played pretty well,” Darr added. “And that’s good. I’m excited to see that. The consistency is kind of what’s been plaguing us this year and so it was good to see that the last three games. This group has always strived to get better and better. They wanted to and they’re not – I mean things weren’t going how we wanted – we lost five one-run games in a matter of two weeks. For teenagers -- that wrecks us as coaches. But they haven’t quit. They rallied together. They come here and keep wanting to improve and want to do better for themselves and for each other and I think it’s a testament to them and now they’re starting to see the fruits of that a little bit.”

Park’s Adam Tait was hit by a pitch and scored on a double by Max Kaplan in the bottom of the first to give Park a short-lived 1-0 lead. But the Royals came right back, scoring four runs in the top of the second.

Woodbury then went up 6-1 with two more runs in the third inning.

Park pitcher Tait had bit of a rough outing, giving up six runs, four of them earned, on six hits in three innings, striking out five while walking two. Relief pitcher Charlie Booker pitched four innings and gave up no hits,

Park’s hitters didn’t have much luck after that. The Wolfpack had just three hits to go along with five strikeouts the rest of the game.