FIELD TWP- Home field was no advantage last Thursday for the North Woods baseball team, which came out on the short end against the Cherry Tigers 7-0.
Cherry pitching was a puzzle North Woods couldn’t solve, as the Grizzlies got only one hit from Cedar Holman in the second while piling up 13 strikeouts.
North Woods hurler Louie Panichi turned in a strong performance through the middle innings, giving up just three runs in six innings worked. Talen Jarshaw came on in relief in the seventh and got into trouble early, putting three runners on with a pair of singles and an error to set the stage for a grand slam home run by Cherry’s Noah Asuma.
Panichi gave up seven hits and rang up six strikeouts against only one walk in his stint on the mound. North Woods had runners on base in the first, second, fourth and fifth innings but couldn’t muster the firepower to bring any of them home.
North Woods was scheduled to host Mt. Iron-Buhl on Tuesday before traveling to Cook County on Thursday.