Crescent Hill Wins Series

On a night when Christ Church out hit Crescent Hill 20 to 15, Crescent Hill won 2 of 3 one run games.

In Game One, Christ Church had nine hits to Crescent Hill's eight, but five of Crescent Hill's hits were home runs accounting for all their runs.  Christ Church scored a run with two outs in both the third and fifth innings on Dick Lutz singles.  Clete Thompson added two home runs, but Christ Church stranded five runners on first base in the 5-4 lose.

In Game Two, the teams combined for only six hits, but Crescent Hill stranded all four of their singles and an additional two runners who reached on errors.  Through eight innings, Christ Church had only one baserunner, an error in the second inning.  But in the ninth, Frank Preston got Christ Church's first hit with a one out single and, with two outs, Dick Lutz won the game (1-0) with an RBI triple..

In Game Three, Christ Church out hit Crescent Hill 9-3, but two of Crescent Hill's hits were home runs and one of those was a two run homer.  Mike Thompson had two solo home runs.  But Christ Church had: 3 no out singles; 2 one out singles; a two out single; and a two out triple and failed to score any of them.  The final was 3-2.