Hard Fought Battle Ends: BCW Succumbs to Top-Ranked Dakota in Semifinal

Hard Fought Battle Ends: BCW Succumbs to Top-Ranked Dakota in Semifinal

Bay City Western’s baseball team has won a heck of a lot of games over the past couple of years. But at Michigan State University, the current Warriors are now 0-2. After falling to eventual champion Northville in last year’s state semifinals, second-ranked Western suffered another disappointing defeat this time around, losing 6-2 to top-ranked Macomb Dakota in a Division 1 semifinal on Friday. BCW coach Tim McDonald admitted that it was tough to come up just short of a state final for the second straight year. “They’re going to hurt for a while, but they’re going to realize (what they’ve accomplished),” McDonald said of his players. “We’ve got a banquet on Tuesday, and I’m going to remind them and do my best to put things in perspective. “ … It stings, and it should. You get down here, and anytime you lose, there’s just a finality to it, especially when you get so close,” he added. “It hurts a little more when you get so close.” Western senior ace pitcher Luke Lacourse ag…