Still a shot for Rams in playoffs
One way out now after the Mount Rainier Rams, the state's best rated baseball team all season, lost to Union opening districts. Win!
Mount Rainier's boys of spring must summon up inside themselves the will and the way to win or, the truth is, the Rams, the state's week two on state 3A ranked No. 1 baseball team, will be done.
Losing to the Vancouver, Wash. squad, the Southwest league's No. 2 seed Union Titans, didn't knock the Rams out of the district playoffs but it did put the Des Moines school in a loser-out game after what was an 11-1 loss in opening SPSL/Olympic/Seamount/Southwest district diamond action at Kent Memorial Park Tuesday.
"We have to be better than that," said head coach Darren Rawie, lamenting this loss and the loss before to Enumclaw.
But just win this next game versus Olympic at 7 p.m. Wednesday tonight and the Rams will be on to the next stage, finishing this phase of districts no worse than the No. 7 seed to the state's final 16 "regionals" competition starting next Saturday, May 22 at venues all across Western and Eastern Washington.