Christ Church Plays Defending Champs

Christ Church played the defending League Champs, St. Matthews Baptist Church, at Christ Church Monday night.

Christ Church won Game One 5-4.  A single and home run gave St. Matthews a lead in the top of the first.  Bob Stone homered in the bottom of the inning to cut the lead to 2-1.  Christ Church took the lead in the third when Dick Lutz singled and scored on Mike Peak's triple. Paul Hirsbrunner drove Mike in with a single and he scored on Mike Thompson's triple.  The scoring closed on Terry Waddle's double and after three Christ Church led 5-1. St. Matthews Baptist scored two in the sixth to make the score 5-4, which turned out to be the final in Christ Church's Game One victory.  Other hits for Christ Church were Kay Peak's double, and singles by Jenny Peak and Paul a(his second single of the game).

After going scoreless over the last five innings of Game One, Christ Church failed to score in Game Two.  Bob, Dick and Mike P. had singles while Mike T. and Frank Preston had doubles but all were stranded.  St. Matthews had four home runs, one a two run homer, and took Game Two 5-0.

With the series knotted at 1-1, Game Three went down to the wire.  Christ Church led 1-0 after one on Mike T.'s home run.  St. Matthews took a 3-1 lead with two doubles and a home run in the fourth.  Christ Church tied it up an inning later on a triple by Kay, a single by Dick and a triple by Paul.  St. Matthews regained the lead with a double and a home run in the seventh to lead 5-3.  Dick also had singles in the first and seventh and Jenny singled in the second.  But those hits produced no runs.  In the ninth, behind by two and with one out, Frank homered to cut the lead to one.  Then with two outs, Kay doubled and the next batter, Dick had his fourth hit of the game, this time a two run, game winning home run to give Christ Church the game 6-5 and a 2-1 series win.