Christ Church Wins Series

Christ Church beat visiting Crescent Hill Baptist Church two games to one Monday night.

In Game One, Jerry Hinton led off the bottom of the first with a single.  David Stierle followed with a triple (RBI) and Paul Hisrbrunner followed him with an RBI triple for a 2-0 early lead.  Crescent Hill scored one in the third and two in the seventh to take a 3-2 lead.  Christ Church was unable to score Lean Bennett (lead-off single) in the second and Kay Peak (one out double) in the sixth.  But in the eighth with two outs and David on third after a triple Kay delivered the game winning home run (2 RBI) for a 4-3 lead which turned out to be the final score.  Tom Bennett reached on an error in the eighth but was left on base.

Christ Church also took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first.  Jerry again led off with a single, scored on a triple (RBI) by Mike Thompson, and he scored on Bob Stone's two out RBI single.Bob also doubled in the fourth and Paul singled in the sixth but neither effort produced a run.  Christ Church added a run in the eighth.  Jerry tripled and was driven in on Paul's RBI single.  Crescent Hill could manage only one hit and Christ Church won Game Two 3-0 and clinched the night's series.

Crescent Hill struck for three runs in the top of the first in Game Three.  That turned out to be not only their only runs of the game but ALL of the runs scored as Christ Church was shut out in the 3-0 loss.  Jerry had his third lead-off single of the night and David singled twice.  His single in the sixth, with two outs, was followed by a double by Mike T. but Christ Church left both on base and there were no other threats.