The Vel Phillips Memorial Spartans baseball team scored 5 runs and limited the visiting Middleton Cardinals to 2 in the Spartans league victory on Friday.

The Spartans (4-0) will now prepare for their match against Madison East (Madison, WI). The Purgolders go into the Big Eight match with a 2-4 record. In their last challenge, Madison East got by Madison La Follette (Madison, WI), 8-3, in a league challenge.

With the defeat, Middleton falls to 5-1 on the season. The Cardinals travel to Janesville Parker (Janesville, WI) to encounter the Vikings in a Big Eight challenge on Saturday, April 13. The Vikings come into the challenge with a record of 0-4. Janesville Parker lost 15-2 in their recent non-league challenge against Sun Prairie East (Sun Prairie, WI)