Wilsonville baseball has struggled against North West Oregon Conference competition up to this point in the season. The only silver lining is that those losses have come against the league’s top-tier teams. Both Canby and La Salle hold on to the top two spots in the conference, respectively, and Wilsonville has a combined 2-4 record against them.

However, since those series, Wilsonville has taken 2/3 games from Putnam and then dominated Milwaukie, winning 11-1 on Monday. Wilsonville will try to sweep their first league series of the season on Wednesday afternoon when they take on Milwaukie for the second and final game of the series.

Milwaukie has had a tough go of things, to say the least. The Mustangs have an abysmal 0-20 overall record and a 0-10 league record. Milwaukie is looking for any light at the end of the tunnel with just a couple of weeks left in their season.

Wilsonville, on the other hand, looks to hit its stride down the home stretch of the regular season. With two weeks left, Wilsonville has the aforementioned game against Milwaukie before a two-game set against Hood River Valley. Then, they close their season with two games against Hillsboro and Centennial.

Kheller Larson spoke on what Wilsonville needs to do in those final series to build some momentum heading into playoffs “We need to do the little things right, stick together, and battle for each other over the next couple weeks. If we play our game, we will be successful.”

The playoffs for any sport can arguably be called a crap shoot, but the baseball playoffs have taken that to the extreme the last couple of years; we can see this last year when the #1 seed Summit lost in the first round in extra innings to La Salle. The year before that, Crescent Valley went on a Cinderella run, going from the #11 seed to State Champions (including beating Wilsonville in the semi-finals).

In the end, it comes down to getting to the tournament, and then anything can happen after that. Luke Larson echoed that message: “We need to play well over the next couple of weeks, get a good seed, make the tournament, and then after that, anything can happen. We saw it a couple of years ago with Crescent Valley winning. You just need to play your best ball to end the year.”

Wilsonville will look to pick things up in a major way as they approach postseason play.