Christ Church Swept

A week after sweeping Crescent Hill and moving into first place for the first time in over two years, Christ Church never led in dropping all three games to last place and home-standing Immanuel UCC.

In Game One, after wasting Jerry Hinton's first inning two out triple and David Stierle's second inning lead-off single, Christ Church fell behind 3-0 as Immanuel homered twice, the second one also scoring a runner who reached on an error.  Frank Preston made it 3-1 with a homer in the fifth but that was matched by Immanuel in the seventh.  Mike Thompson singled in the seventh but was stranded on base.  Christ Church mounted a comeback with two outs in the ninth.  Mike T. and David both singled and scored when Bob Stone tripled but the rally fell short in a 4-3 lose.

In Game Two, Mike Peak led off with a single but could not score.  Immanuel made it 2-0 on a home run in the bottom of the first.  Christ Church tied it at 2-2 with a run in the second and a run in the third.  In the second David singled with two outs and was driven in by a triple by Jenny Peak.  An inning later Dick Lutz homered.  A lead off double by Bob in the seventh and a lead-ff single by Dick in the ninth failed to produce runs while Immanuel scored once in the fourth and  twice in the sixth for a final score of 5-2.

Immanuel completed the sweep in Game Three.  Christ Church could manage only one hit over the first four innings (Dick singled in the first) while a pair of doubles in the second and third gave Immanuel a 2-0 lead.  In the fifth David  singled and Jenny tripled to cut the lead to 2-1.  But Christ Church singles in the sixth (Mike P.), seventh (David) and the ninth (Mike T.) did not produce the run needed and Immanuel won 2-1.

For the night Christ Church had 19 hits on 100 at bats to Immanuel's 20 on 93;  6 runs to 11;  1 double to 9; and 2 home runs to 6.  The only positive category for Christ Church was in triples where Christ Church had 4 and Immanuel 0.