Christ Church Takes Series

After dropping Game One, Christ Church fought back to win Games Two and Three and the series from visiting Watkins.

In Game One, Christ Church took a first inning lead when David Stierle singled and Kay Peak followed with a two run home run.  With single runs in the third and fourth innings and two in the sixth, Watkins took a 4-2 lead.  A single by Mike Peak and a triple by Jerry Hinton cut the margin to one in the sixth and doubles by Kay and Bob Stone tied the game in the eighth.  But Christ Church could not match a ninth inning home run by Watkins and dropped Game One 5-4.

Game Two was equally close.  Watkins scored one on a home run in the second which was matched by Christ Church in the bottom of the inning--  Jerry tripled and scored on a single by Paul Hirsbrunner.  Watkins' second and third home runs in the fourth and fifth gave them a 3-1 lead,  but in the sixth, Christ Church scored on a triple by Mike Thompson, a single by Mike P., a triple by Dick Lutz and a single by Paul for a 4-3 Christ Church lead.  Watkins' fourth home run tied the game in he eighth and the score remained tied after nine.  Three singles by Jenny Peak (in the third, fifth and seventh) were wasted and the game went into extra innings.  In the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Watkins could manage only an error while Christ Church was hitless through the twelfth.  But in the the thirteenth David led off with a home run for a 5-4 win to tie the series at one apiece.

Christ Church never trailed in Game Three.  Mike T. homered in the first; David singled and Mike P. tripled in the third; Jerry singled and Dick tripled in the fourth; and Mike T. tripled and Bob singled in thr fifth for a 4-2 Christ Church lead.  Watkins' two runs had come on a two run home run in the fifth and they added homers in the sixth and seventh to tie the game.  But Christ Church added four runs in the seventh for an 8-4 lead.  David tripled and scored on Mike T's single, who then scored as the first run of a two run homer by Bob.  Jerry closed out the scoring with a solo home run.  Watkins cut the final margin to 8-5 with a ninth inning home run.