Christ Church Drops Third Straight Series

After winning Game One, Christ Church lost the last two game on Monday night at St. Matthews UMC.

In Game One, in the first, Mike Peak, David Stierle and Tom Bennett went single, triple, single to take a 2-0 lead.  Mike P. (single) and Paul Hirsbrunner (triple) gave Christ Church a 3-0 lead after five and a half innings.  In he bottom of the seventh, Jim singled for St. Matthews and went to third on Frank's double.  Jim scored and Frank advanced to third as Russell singled.  But a double play erased the runner from third.  An error from Ralph put runners on second and third and St. Matthews posted their second run on Lou's double.  But that closed out the scoring.  Paul and Leah Bennett added late inning singles.  The Final- Christ Church 3 - St. Matthews 2.

Game Two was another one run affair but the decision went St. Matthews way.  Christ Church again scored in the first, pushing three accross on a single by Mike P. a triple by David and a home run by Tom.  It was 4-0 going to the bottom of the sixth after David singled and Leah delivered a two out triple.  In the bottom of the inning Frank tripled and scored with Frank on his HR.  An out later Ralph doubled and Lou homered to tie the score at 4-4.  Christ Church added singles from: Leah (with one out in the fourth); Jenny Peak (two outs in the seventh); and David (lead off in the ninth).  But all three died on base nand a ninth inning home run by Ralph gave St. Matthews the win.  The Final- St. Matt. 5 - Christ Church 4.

In Game Three, Christ Church scored two runs on six hits, the runs coming in the fifth on a Dick Lutz single and a home run by Charles Smith.  The other hits were all singles by Mike P., Mike Thompson, David and Dick.  St. Matthews scored one in the first (Carl single and Jim triple), two in the second (Herb homer, Lou double and Glenn double), two in the fifth (single, triple and single by Glenn, Carl and Jim), and put the game away with five in the seventh (Glenn singled, Jim tripled, Frank homered, Russell singled and Herb homered,  The Final- St. Matt. 10 - Christ Church 3.