STANLEY – Stanley baseball doesn’t want its best season in more than a decade to end.

The No. 4 seed Panthers will aim to continue their postseason campaign when they host No. 13 Bell City in the second round of the Division V Non-Select playoffs.
Stanley (20-6) earned a first-round bye as a top-six seed, while Bell City (11-8) waxed No. 20 Calvin, 15-1 in five innings.

A win would send Stanley to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2015.
While the Panthers scheduled a variety of teams in different classifications, Stanley enters the playoffs with the second-most wins (12-4) against Class B teams if anybody in the Division V field. No. 1 seed Pitkin leads the way with a 13-0 mark against Class B squads this season.

Eight of those wins came enroute to a perfect record in District 3-B and a district title.
No. 14 Converse is still alive as a fellow 3-B team after they knocked out district foe Zwolle in the first round.

Bell City made the most of its 10 hits in the first-round win with six of those being doubles.
Collin McCombs (3-for-4, 3 RBIs) and Grayson Smith (2-for-4, 4 RBIs) led the Bell City bats.
Stanley is playing its first game in 10 days after the first-round bye.

While the Panthers have featured a balanced offensive and pitching attacks, it’s been the Panthers’ arms that have led the way.

Pitchers Logan Maroney and Jace Gooden lead a staff that can go four and five arms deep.
Stanley held seven of its eight district opponents to two runs or less and surrendered double digit runs only three times all season.