The Warriors from Rez Life man-handled geographical rival, Wooddale, in a 25-10 romp. The Warriors played with just nine players but it was a power-packed nine as the team reached base 31 times including 25 hits and five walks. Every single player reached base at least three times with eight of the nine collecting at least two hits.
Ben Terfehr led the way with a three-hit game highlighted by two doubles. He finished 3-5 but his two non-hits were smoked grounders hit right at people. He scored three runs and drove home a game-high six. His hot early season continued as he earned his first Player of the Game nod.
With just nine defenders, the defense was excellent. The team turned its seventh double play of the year and made several difficult plays to keep Wooddale's offense at bay, after a first-inning outburst.
The Warriors started the game with an eventful first inning. 15 players came to bat in the top of the first while the Rez Life plated 11 runners. Jason Merritt back from his week off walked to start things off and scored easily as Ben drilled his first of two doubles to left-center. Austin Colby roped his fourth triple of the season to right-center to plate Ben and jogged home on Jon Engbrecht's tough-hop grounder to third base. Jordan Schumack then hit a scorcher to third base that squirted out of play allowing Jon to advance to third and Jordan to move to second. Still with no outs, Jeff Johnson dropped in a double that scored both Jordan and Jon and made it 5-0 Rez. After an out, Lee Valle got into the action with a single that put runners on the corners for super-sub Chris Wold who lined a single up the middle to score Jeff.
As the top of the order came up again, it was already 6-0. After the second out, Ben delivered a two-rbi single scoring Chris and Lee. Austin then deposited his first homerun of the season just over the monster in left to make it 10-0. The bats weren't done though as Jon doubled to keep things going and sprinted home on Jordan's double down the left-field line. When the inning finally ended, the Warriors had scored 11 times and ripped out 11 hits including six for extra bases.
However, the Wooddale bats would not let the Warriors get comfortable. The first eight batters for Wooddale reached and scored in the bottom of the first to make it 11-8 after one inning. Lots of fireworks. After a leadoff walk, Wooddale rapped out seven straight hits. Jason snagged a flyball for the first out and two grounders to Austin sandwiched another hit to end the inning.
Rez Life came out quickly in the second to extend its once large lead. With one out, Lee and Chris hit back-to-back singles. Jason doubled to right to score Lee and put runners on second and third for the hot-man Ben. He delivered with a two-rbi double to make it 14-8. Unfortunately, consecutive outs stranded Ben at second.
Wooddale started its half of the second with a single and followed with a flyout. The next batter looped a little liner behind second base which Austin caught and fired to first on the run to double off the slumbering runner and end the inning.
The Warriors bats snoozed a little in the third leaving Jamy Antoine's single alone on the bases. Thankfully, Wooddale also went scoreless again making it 14-8 after three innings. The defense ended the third inning with another slick defensive play as Jason fielded a single and hit Austin perfectly with a relay throw and Austin turned and snapped a strike to Lee who nailed the runner trying to get to third.
Rez Life scored four times in the top of the fourth to extend its lead to 10 runs. Chris doubled, moved to second on Jason's flyout, and scored on Ben's rbi-groundout. Austin doubled to left-center and scored on a handcuffed flyball to left-center hit by Jon. Jordan and Jeff drew two-out walks to load the bases for Jamy who knocked out a single scoring Jon and Jordan to end the scoring.
Wooddale's bats showed a spark in the bottom of the fourth ripping a single and following with a triple to make it 18-9. A lineout to Austin provided the first out and a little blooper into shallow left almost netted another baserunner for Wooddale but Austin made a nifty over-the-shoulder catch as Chris slid underneath him for the second out. However, the runner from third did score to make it 18-10. A popout to Austin ended the inning and allowed Austin to tie a record set by many, making all three outs in an inning.
The umpire notified both teams that the fifth would be the final inning due to time constraints so the bats came out firing. Chris tripled to dead center to start things and Jason drew a walk to put two on. Ben hit a sharp one-hopper right at third, freezing Chris, and forcing Jason at second. Austin calmly lined one to right-center to plate Chris and complete the cycle, hitting a single, double, triple, and homerun in one game. Jon singled to load the bases and after the second out, Jeff ripped a single to push Austin and Ben across the plate. Jamy followed with a run-scoring single to plate Jon. Lee walked to load the bases for Chris who singled and advanced all the way to third on an error, which allowed all three baserunners to scamper home and give us our final score of 25-10.
Wooddale managed one hit in the final frame but it led to nothing as the game ended. The Warriors now stand at 3-2 overall and have pushed their average runs per game up to 14.4 on the season. Next week's contest is a rematch of week one's loss against Pax Christi. The game is at 6:50 on field #4. The Warriors will be looking to exact a little revenge after dropping the season opener 20-17 to Pax.
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