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Article: Silver Lake fights off Pleasant Ridge in final
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
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- May 20, 2004
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By Brent Maycock
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
SILVER LAKE --- No, Silver Lake hasn't taken qualifying for the
Class 3A state baseball tournament for granted.
Not even after 13 straight years of accomplishing the feat.
But if things had started to become a bit old hat, then
Wednesday's regional championship game injected some enthusiasm back
into the annual trek.
"This game made it not be ho-hum at all," Silver Lake coach Alan
Cunningham said after his Eagles fought off a game Pleasant Ridge
squad for a 4-2 win. "They were very scrappy and their pitcher, while
he didn't throw it extremely hard, had us lunging. We knew it would
be tough."
That knowledge didn't stem from the fact that Wednesday's ...