Make-up Series Results

Christ Church Eliminated From Title Contention

Needing to win two games to maintain a mathematical chance of earning a share of the championship, Christ Church was swept by visiting Harvey Browne Monday night.

In Game One Christ Church had three one-out singles (by Mike Peak in the first, Paul Hirsbrunner in the second and Mike Thompson in the sixth) and three no-out singles (by Mike T in the fourth, Paul in the seventh and David Stierle in the ninth).  But with fifteen chances to get the triple that would produce a run, the triple did not come and Christ Church's only run and only other hit was a home run by Frank Preston in the fifth.  A pair of home runs in the second and another in the fourth gave Harvey Browne the 3-1 win.

There was better production in Game Two.  After Dick Lutz's one out single in the second and Jerry Hinton's two out double in the third failed to produce a run, the fourth saw Christ Church take their first lead of the night.  Mike T led off with a double and scored on David's triple.  One out later Paul singled for the second run and a 2-0 lead.  After a Harvey Browne Home run in the seventh, Christ Church stretched the lead in the seventh.  With one out Terry Waddle led off with an error and scored on Bob Stone's triple.  One out later Jerry drove in Bob and Christ Church led by four.  But in the eighth, Harvey Browne erupted.  A single, triple and home run scored three and a single and triple plated a fourth run to give Harvey Browne a 5-4 lead.  In the bottom of the eighth, with one out David tripled but was left stranded.  With one more chance in the ninth, Terry led off with a triple but three more shots at driving in the tying run all failed and Christ Church dropped Game Two.

Game Three saw only two Christ Church batters reach base.  In the sixth Mike T led off with a double and in the eighth Charles Smith reached on an error.  Harvey Browne managed just six hits but two of those were home runs and Harvey Browne completed the sweep with a 2-0 victory.

Week 27 - League Results

Christ Church Drops Series

Christ Church could manage only two runs on home runs by Bob Stone in the sixth and Charles Smith in the seventh on only five hits in Game One at Watkins Monday night.  In a game which started a half hour early to permit the viewing of U of L's third national championship, Bob's lead off home run in the sixth was the first hit for Christ Church and cut Watkins' lead to 5-1.  He was followed by a single by Jenny Peak and a double by Terry Waddle to put runners on second and third with no outs.  But needing only  singles to trim the deficit even more, Christ Church failed to produce.  After Charles homer the only other hit for Christ Church was a two out single in the ninth by David Stierle.  Watkins took Game One 5-2 and out hit Christ Church 8-5.

In Game Two, a single by Jerry Hinton, an RBI triple by Dick Lutz, an RBI single by David and an RBI triple by Charles Smith staked Christ Church to a 3-0 lead in the first and a single by Mike Peak. an RBI triple by Dick, and an RBI single by David extended the lead to 5-0 after three.  But three doubles, a triple and a two out home run in the bottom of the fourth tied the game with Watkins taking a 8-5 lead after seven with two more doubles and another two out home run.  Christ Church mounted a challenge in the eighth.  Singles by Dick and  David and a two RBI triple by Bob sliced the lead to one, but, as in Game One, the single which would tie the score was not forthcoming and Christ Church lost Game Two and the series 8-7.  Three other hits for Christ Church, all singles, came, one from  Mike P and two from Jerry.

Christ Church salvaged Game Three 7-2.  After Watkins took a 1-0 lead in the first, Christ Church answered in the second with two runs (Mike Thompson double, Charles Smith home run), in the fourth with two more (homers by Mike T and Jenny Peak) and, in the sixth with three (David single, Mike T home run and doubles by Jenny and Frank Preston).  Christ Church's only non-scoring hit was a single by Jerry. 

Christ Church raps up the season next Monday at home against Harvey Browne.

Week 26 - League Results

Race Tightens

After Portland won all three Monday night against St. Matthews Baptist and St. Matthews UMC took two of three from Christ Church, one through four in the standings are separated by just one game, with St. Matthews UMC leading with only 33 loses, Portland one back in the loss column with 34 losses, and St. Matthews Baptist and Christ Church being two games back with 35 loses each.  St. Matthews UMC and Portland have make-up games against Harvey Browne.  The results from last week:

St. Matthews Continues Mastery

For the fourth time this year, St. Matthews UMC won its weekly series with Christ Church.

In game One, a two run bottom of the first and a one run second staked St. Matthews to a 3-0 lead.  Singles by Mike Peak in the first and David Stierle in the fourth failed to produce any runs.  Christ Church tied the game in the sixth.  Terry Waddle led off with a home run.  Charles Smith followed with a single and was driven in by a Mike P. triple.  After two outs Paul Hirsbrunner singled to score Mike.  Bob Stone doubled in the eighth but was stranded on second.  Christ Church took their first lead of the night in the eighth.  David singled with one out and Paul delivered again with two outs with an RBI triple and a 4-3 lead.  But St. Matthews answered with the tying run in the eighth and, in the ninth, won 5-4 on a one out home run.

Christ Church jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of Game Two.  Mike P. singled, Paul tripled and Charles singled.  But in the bottom of the first, St. Matthews took the lead for good with four runs.  In the sixth, Paul singled and Dick Lutz tripled to cut the lead to one.  But St. Matthews had a homer in the bottom half on the inning to make the final score 5-3.  Kay Peak added a double in the fifth,  Bob Stone doubled in the seventh and singled in the ninth and David singled in the eighth.

Christ Church was able to salvage Game Three, scoring two in the first (Paul singled, Dick tripled and Charles singled) and three in the fifth (Paul singled, David tripled, Dick singled and Mike Thompson tripled).  St. Matthews cut the lead to 2-1 in the fourth,  5-3 in the fifth and 5-4 in the eighth.  But a home run by David in the ninth made the final score 6-4.   Other Christ Church hits came from Paul (single), Charles (single), Mike T. (double), David (single) and Terry (double).

St. Matthews won the first. third, and last night's fourth series, all by 2-1 margins.  They won the second series 3-0 to make the record for the season 9-3.

Christ Church raps up the 2012-2013 season at Watkins on April 8th and at home to Harvey Browne on April 15.