Elmwood/Plum City baseball had an eventful weekend, sandwiching losses to Mondovi 14-1 and McDonell Central 19-1 with a 14-4 win over Cochrane-Fountain City.

“Mondovi and McDonell we struggled to make some plays on defense and it kind of snowballed on us,” Head Coach Cory Brathall said. “Plum City did a senior trip, so we were missing Sean [Sagini].”

Sagini is the team’s center fielder and a core piece to the defense, so the shake up in the lineup led to a few mistakes. Brathall said when there is one mistake, it leads them down a path.

“It’s that trickle-down effect,” Brathall said. “Before you know it, it's long innings and a lot of pitches. As you’re watching people get walked, and all of the sudden they put one in play and it’s hard to make a play all of the sudden.”

The win over Cochrane-Fountain City doubled the team’s previous high in runs of seven. Brathall said it was not some fluke to score the 14 runs; it was the team’s plate discipline.

“We had really good approaches. We weren’t swinging at stuff out of the strike zone which got us into good hitters’ counts,” Brathall said. “We put the ball in play, hard in play.”

They were aggressive inside of the zone and laid off the pitches outside the zone, making the perfect concoction for a big day at the plate. Senior Lucas Glaus homered in the game, but everyone was hitting on the day. Skylar Fischer, Logan Auth, Robbie Duffy, Teigen Bauer, Ariel Perez and Caleb Kopp all drove in runs to join Glaus.

EPC has had stretches of good hitting, good pitching and good fielding. Now, with a few weeks left to play, they are seeking to put the three together at the same time for the first time this season.

“We’ve just got to clean it up on defense. I think that’s been our Achilles heel the last couple weeks,” Brathall said. “It’s been killing us lately, and it’s kind of everyone, it’s not just one person. Just like good things are contagious, bad things are contagious too, where we’ve got guys that were making plays earlier in the year, and all of the sudden there’s balls dropping.”

EPC has six games left on the regular season schedule, and after snapping an eight-game losing streak, the Wolves look to pick up some wins to fight their way back into the middle of the conference standings.