Panther baseball roars into state tourney
The sun was shining as brightly on the Glencoe-Silver Lake baseball team Thursday, June 6, as it had through the majority of the Section 5AA Tournament. The Panthers throttled Holy Family 12-2 in the section title game, with Bennett Lepel (bottom left) driving in three runs and Dane Schwirtz (bottom middle) scoring four times, both team highs. It took just 4-1/2 innings for GSL to reclaim the section championship the team last won in 2015. The Panthers scored at least two runs in every turn they had at-bat and did not allow the Fire a tally until the top of the fifth. The Panthers enter state tourney play with a 19-5 record.