By: Eddy Gifford, Publisher

The Wolverine baseball team opened the 2013 season Monday afternoon when they hosted the Ridgeland Panthers.

New Wolverine baseball Coach Brad Weir fielded a young team that is still missing some players that are involved in basketball but overall play was good.

Due to all the bad weather the Wolverines have only gotten to practice on the field a couple of days and that lack of field time showed up at times for the host.

While the Panthers won the game 8-3 there was several bright spots for the Wolverines including some good pitching at times and in spite of several players having to play out of position the defense played relatively well.

Garrett Moore led the Wolverine offense with three hits, including a long home run late in the game.

The Wolverines are scheduled to travel to Atlanta this weekend for three games, weather permitting.

On Feb. 26 the Wolverines will travel to Ridgeland.

The next Wolverine home game will be on March 5th when they will host Lakeview Ft. Oglethorpe at 6 p.m.