CHRIST CHURCH WINS GAMES TWO AND THREE FOR SERIES WIN

Christ Church opened the 2013-2014 Crescent Hill Dartball League season with a 2-1 series win against Portland Presbyterian Church Monday night in games played at Christ Church.

In Game One, Christ Church took a 2-0 lead, scoring single runs in the first and third innings.  In the first Paul Hirsbrunner singled and was driven in by an RBI triple by Dick Lutz.  In the third, Dick singled, advanced to second on a sacrifice by Mike Thompson and reached third on a single by Terry Waddle.  With two outs Frank Preston delivered an RBI single to score Dick.  But that was all the scoring Christ Church could manage.  A lead-off double by Kay Peak in the fifth and a one out double by Terry in the sixth were wasted.  Portland went single, triple, single for two runs in the sixth to tie the score and scored the winning run in the ninth on a single and triple and a final score of 3-2.

In Game Two, Christ Church had a big third inning.  Leah Bennett started the inning by reaching on an error.  After two were out, David Stierle tripled (RBI), Charles Smith singled (RBI), and Bob Stone tripled (RBI) for a 3-0 lead.  After Portland cut the lead to 3-1 in the fourth, Christ Church rebuilt a three run lead in the fifth with a run on a single by Mike Peak and an RBI triple by David.  Portland tied the score at 4-4 with three runs in the sixth, but Christ Church scored one in the bottom of the inning (a single by Tom Bennett and an RBI triple by Leah), one in the seventh (a single by David and an RBI by Charles) and two in the eighth (a single by Tom and a two run home run by Jim Howard).  Christ Church also had a triple by David, a double by Tom, and a single by Mike P. as Christ Church evened the night at a game a piece with a 8-4 win.

In Game Three, over the last eight innings, Bob Stone had two doubles, Tom had a single, and Paul had a triple but Christ Church could not push any runs across.  However, Christ Church did enough damage in the first inning when a single by David, an RBI triple by Paul, and an RBI single by Dick produced two runs which resulted in a 2-0 Game Three win and a 2-1 series win.