Christ Church Drops Three

St. Matthews UMC ran their season record against visiting Christ Church to 5-1 with a sweep on Monday night.

In Game One, Christ Church took the lead in the top of the first on Bob Stone's solo home run.  Two runs in the bottom of fourth and three in the fifth gave St. Matthews a 5-1 lead.  Christ Church scored twice in the seventh- Paul Hirsbrunner singled, Dick Lutz tripled (RBI) and Charles Smith singled (RBI).  But that completed Christ Church's scoring and St. Matthews added an eighth inning run to make the Game One final 6-3.  David Stierle and Jerry Hinton added two out triples and Dick also had a single.

Game Two saw Christ Church out hit St. Matthews 13-12 but Christ Church had nineteen chances to drive in runs but was successful on only three attempts.  St. Matthews scored two in the first, one in the second and two in the third for a 5-0 lead.  In the fifth, Christ Church got on the score board.  Paul  and Mike Thompson led off the inning with a pair of single.  Then, after two were out Terry Waddle doubled (RBI) with Paul scoring and Mike T. advancing to third. Mike Peak singled (RBI) scoring Mike T. and moving Terry to third.  Jerry closed the scoring in the inning with an RBI single.  St. Matthews answered with three runs in the fifth and their ninth run in the sixth.  Christ Church managed to cut the lead to the final score on 9-5 with a pair of runs in the seventh.  With two outs, Mike P. singled, Jerry tripled (RBI) and Bob singled (RBI).  Other Christ Church hits all singles, came from: Paul who had a pair; Mike T. ; Mike P.; and Jerry.

In Game Three, twelve St. Matthews hits produced six runs, while Christ Church's ten hits produced only three.  After St. Matthews took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first, Christ Church answered with a run of their own in the second Dick Lutz singled, advanced to third on Mike T.'s double and scored on Bob's RBI single.  Singles by Mike P. and Terry were wasted in the third.  Charles's fourth inning solo home run cut tied the game only to see St. Matthews make it 4-2 in the bottom of the inning.  In the eighth Jerry singled and was driven in by Dick (RBI triple)  Dick also singled in the sixth as did Bob in the ninth..  St. Matthews added two runs in the eighth to make the final score 6-3 and complete the sweep.