Warriors Slug Six Homers in Route

The bats were alive and mighty, slugging six homers, albeit two for outs, en route to a 21-2 dismantling of St. Andrew Blue last week. The team mashed out 25 hits with 3 walks including 2 doubles, 2 triples and 4 homeruns that counted. The team had extra base-hits in every inning and had a 12-run inning to cap the game's scoring after four innings.

Chris Burr and Jamy Antoine led the charge with there hits each in four at bats with Chris scoring four times while driving in three on a double and two homers. Jamy scored twice and drove home four with a three-run homer. His lone out was a two-on homer for an out that he mashed to the opposite field. The players shared Player of the Game honors.

Jon Engbrecht provided the other countable homerun with a two-run laser to left-center in the 12-run fourth. It was Jon's first homer of the year.

The bats opened the game with four runs in the first. Austin Colby single and scored on Lee Valle's deep double to right-center. Lee jogged home as Chris launched quite possibly the farthest homer of the season to left. After an out, Eric Johnson singled and moved to second on AJ Larson's single. Jamy then knocked out his first hit of the game, a single, to score Eric and make it 4-0. Both runners were left stranded as two line drives from Nick Larson and Jordan Schumack were speared to end the inning.

Blue scored its only two runs of the game in the bottom half of the first using a lead-off single, a two-out walk and three straight singles after that to push the runners home. A nice play up the middle from Austin and AJ ended the inning, 4-2 Rez.

In the top of the second, Austin hit a two-out triple but was left stranded. St. Andrew was unable to take advantage as Lee made a fine stab with two outs and the bases loaded to keep Blue from scoring.

The Warriors scored five in the third to open the game up for good using six hits and two walks. Chris doubled to right to open the inning and scored on Brendan Finn's single to left. After consecutive outs, Jamy singled to put two on for Nick who blooped one to right-center but the ball scooted right on a funky bounce which allowed both runners to score and saw Nick standing on third with his third triple of the season. Jordan followed with a single to plate Nick and make it 8-2 Rez Life. Jon walked and Matt Shuster hit an infield single to load the bases for Austin who was seen drooling and licking his chops as he strode to the plate. However, discipline and a team-first attitude kept Austin's bat on his shoulder as he watched three balls go by, walking for the third time this year with the bases loaded. On the tape, you can actually see his bat flinching about 10 times with each pitch with hopes of swinging, but knowing that he'd catch some major grief from his teammates for popping up on a bad pitch, he wisely chose to accept the walk and take the one free run. Unfortunately, the team left the bases loaded as a popout ended the frame.

Blue went down one, two, three in the third on three pitches and the Warriors were quickly up again. Chris opened the inning with a line-drive homer giving him two for the game and five on the season. Finn, Eric, and AJ all singled scoring Finn and making it 11-2. Jamy came up and smashed a three-run homer down the line clearing the bases and pushing the lead to 12, 14-2. Nick singled and Jon knocked his homerun out of the park for the fourth and final allowable homer and a 16-2 lead. Matt singled again and hustled to second as a bad throw got away from the first baseman. Austin lined one up the middle for his third hit which scored Matt. Lee singled to push Austin to second and Chris hit a grounder to second that squirted through his legs and allowed Austin to score and Lee to scamper to third. With the score now, 18-2, Finn lined his third hit of the contest to score Lee and Eric followed with an RBI single also, his third knock of the game. Now 20-2, AJ picked on the second baseman again who couldn't handle the grounder which allowed Finn to trot home and end the scoring. Jamy came up with two on, but hit a towering homer which counted as the second out. Nick walked to load them up for Jordan who picked a good time to hit his first homerun of the season as he lifted one to deep left for a would-be grand slam, but again, the four-homerun limit came into play and ended the inning, 21-2 Rez Life.

Needing five runs to keep playing, St. Andrew couldn't do much offensively, leaving two runners on as AJ speared a line-drive at short to end the contest. Lee made two fine defensive plays at third earlier in the inning.

The third straight win from Rez Life pushes its record to 10-5, good for third place. Life suffered one loss last week and sits atop the standings at 12-3 while Living Word is in between in second at 12-4. Rez plays EPAG this week who has played extremely well as of late, knocking off Life for the second time this season last week. Game time is 6:50 on field #4.