Brendan Finn led the Rez Life Warriors to an easy 13-2 victory over Pax Christi last week and helped push the team's record to 3-1 on the season. The 3-1 record is good for 2nd place thus far, trailing only Life Church who sits atop the standings at 4-0. Check out the league standings at this link here: http://www.edenprairie.org/vCurrent/live/article.asp?r=2170 Click on the PDF of Softball Standings in the bottom left column.
Finn blasted two three-run homers and finished the game 3-3 with his other hit being a long single off the wall in left. The team continued its upsurge offensively with 15 hits, five going for extra bases. Lee Valle and Jamy Antoine stayed hot, both hitting triples and going a combined 3-3 with a walk.
The game was never close as Pax scored its only two runs in the top of the first but the Warriors pounced on top with five in the bottom half and never looked back. AJ Larson started the game with a single and moved to third after Jeff Johnson reached base on a throwing error. Finn then sent his first pitch high and deep to left, pushing through the wind for a three-run homer and giving Rez Life the lead for good. After the first out, Austin Colby found his stroke and laced a liner to center and hustled all the way to second for a double. A popout to the pitcher provided the second out but Eric Johnson ripped a single to left to plate Colby. Lee stepped up and drilled a triple to right-center scoring Eric and ending the inning, 5-2 Rez Life.
Pax threatened with two runners on in the top of the second but a nice running catch from Chris Burr ended the inning. Rez added one more run in the third after Jamy laced his third consecutive triple to right field and came home on a Jordan Schumack sacrifice fly.
Again, Pax did nothing in the third but Rez was unable to take advantage, stranding two runners after back-to-back great catches by the left fielder robbed Chris and Austin of extra bases. Jon Engbrecht and Finn each had singles in the inning.
A slick double play and another nice play by Lee made quick work of Pax in the top of the fourth and the Warriors looked to expand on their 6-2 lead in the bottom half. The bats answered scoring seven runs and putting the game away.
Eric started with his second single of the game and moved to second on Lee's single. A forceout and a walk loaded the bases with one out and an error by the shortstop allowed a run to score on a Matt Shuster grounder. Jordan then lifted his second sacrifice fly scoring Nick Larson and AJ singled to score Jamy. Jeff ripped a single up the middle plating Shuster and Finn calmly launched another three-run homer making the score 13-2. Chris and Austin had back-to-back singles to keep things going and after Matt Hanson reached on an error, Eric just got under one, ending the inning with a flyout.
Pax went down quickly after some nice infield defense from the Warriors and the game was ended via 10-run mercy rule after five innings.
The team is now batting .488 as a team while slugging .715, both numbers are down quite a bit from last year. AJ is leading the team at an .800 clip followed by Lee, Matt Shuster and Finn at .750 each.
The new lineup worked out pretty well so we will try it one more time and hopefully we can get through three and half times instead of two and half times. We'll use the same method, rotating the lowest four batting averages between the 2 and 6 holes.
This week's game starts at 6:50 on field #5, which is just north of the high school. St. Andrew Red is the opponent and the Warriors had some tough games against them last year.
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