HS Baseball: Plainfield struggling early

The issue for the Plainfield Panthers is pretty simple; they don't have the arms they would like to have.
That's not an easy problem to overcome when you are playing in the Medium Division of the Eastern Connecticut Conference.
The Panthers lost their second straight game Saturday as Griswold beat them, 11-4. Plainfield also took it on the chin earlier in the week when they lost to Montville, 8-2.
"We have to learn how to pitch backwards a little bit more," Plainfield coach John Schiffner said. "We can't afford to walk anybody, we can't afford to make any errors, we need to rely on our defense."
It doesn't make it any easier that Plainfield, due to its school enrollment, has been bumped up to the Medium Division.
"Well, what are you going to do," Schiffner said of the bump up. "Baseball is baseball. In other sports, it might be a bigger factor, but we'll play with anybody and try to keep getting better."
If there's any consolation, it's just a one-year engagement as the Panthers - thanks to Putnam's departure from the ECC - will drop back into the Small Division next season.
"We're working hard, we have a really good group of kids, so we'll see what happens," Schiffner said.