The Yorkton Cardinals played their second game of the day in Medicine Hat Saturday evening.
The Western Canadian Baseball League Mavericks struck first scoring five in the home half of the fifth inning. The home team then added two in the sixth for a 7-0 lead.
Yorkton finally got on the board with a single run in the eighth, then added four in the ninth to make it close, but still a 7-5 road loss.
Austin Sojka, with his fourth home run of the season, led Medicine Hat with four runs batted in.
Owen Steele was the winning pitcher for the Mavericks. The Medicine Hat starter went six innings, allowing only three hits, and no runs. He did walk five, and struck out three.
Payton Harris was tagged with the loss for Yorkton. He started the game and went 5.2 innings, allowing eight hits, and seven runs, all of them earned.
