CHRIST CHURCH WINS SERIES

After dropping Game One to Crescent Hill Baptist Church, a Game Two bottom of the ninth rally sparked by Kay Peak's one out triple, led to a 2-1 series win by Christ Church.  

In Game One, an error and a home run gave Crescent Hill a 2-0 lead in the top of the first.  A lead off Mike Peak single and Dick Lutz RBI triple cut the lead in half, but Christ Church could not get the single to score Dick.  Christ Church then went hitless until Terry Waddle's lead-off homer in the fifth inning.  By that time, Crescent Hill had added three more runs (on two homers) and the score was 5-2.  One out singles by Dick in the sixth and eighth and a lead-off single by David Stierle in the seventh produced no runs while Crescent Hill added a run on a homer in the sixth to make it 6-2.  Kay's home run in the eighth made the final score 6-3.

Crescent Hill led 5-1 after five and half innings in Game Two, all Crescent Hill's runs coming on home runs.  Mike Thompson doubled in the first and Terry tripled in the second but both were left stranded.  Mike Thompson opened the fourth with a home run, but Terry's single later in the inning and Mike Peak's two out triple in the fifth were wasted.  Christ Church cut the lead to 5-2 in the sixth when Jerry Hinton singled and scored on David's triple.  The lead was cut to one when, with two outs, Mike Peak and Dick had back-to-back homers.  David singled in the eighth but died at first.  In the ninth, with one out and behind 5-4, Kay tripled.  She scored on Mike Peak's single, and he scored on Dick's "walk-off" triple for a 6-5 win.

In Game Three Christ Church took their first early game lead when Mike Peak singled and Dick drove him  in with a triple in the first.  But as in Game One, the single to score Dick was not forthcoming.  Frank Preston homered in the second for a 2-0 lead.  Crescent Hill cut the lead to 2-1 with a fourth inning home run.  But there was no other scoring over the last five and a half innings and Christ Church won the game and the series 2-1.   Frank (single), Mike Thompson (double), and Mike Peak (single) added hits.

This weeks leaders:

Hits:  Mike Peak and Dick Lutz   6
Runs:  Mike Peak 4
RBIs:  Dick Lutx 4
Average:  Mike Peak and Dick Lutz  .462
Doubles:  Mike Thompson 2
Triples:  Dick Lutz  3
Home Runs:  6 with 1
Slugging percentage:  Dick Lutz  1.154