Resurrection Life left no doubt in the minds of the onlookers Thursday night about who the second place team should be this season: The Warriors. Rez used a barrage of extra-base hits from up and down the lineup to embarrass Life Church 23-1, ending the game after just three innings due to the mercy rule.
The team finished the night 23-30 from the plate with six doubles, two triples, and five homeruns - not including a sixth that didn't count. Austin Colby and Jason Merritt both went 4-4 on the night from the one and two spots in the order. However, Jordan Schumack earns Player of the Game with a perfect 3-3 night with two runs, five rbi, a triple and a homerun, his first on the year.
The two substitutes, Chris Burr and AJ Larson, finish a combined 6-6 scoring six times and driving home eight.
In the top of the first, Austin opened things up with a single and moved to second on Jason's single. Eric Johnson then doubled home Austin to start the scoring. Andy Briggs singled to plate Jason and after a Jeff Johnson walk, Jordan cleared the bases with a triple to left-center. After a groundout double play, the offense picked it up again as Adam Hey reached on an error and moved to third on Chris' double. AJ then launched one down the right-field line and burned home for an inside-the-park homerun. Austin finished the inning's scoring with a more conventional homerun, calmly depositing a ball over the left-center field fence. Rez ended the inning up 9-0.
Life was unable to take advantage of the wind blowing out stranding a lead-off walk and not scoring during its half of the first. Back-to-back solo homeruns from Jordan and Jon Engbrecht pushed the score to 11-0 after one and half innings.
Life managed to get on the board in the bottom half of the second, hitting a solo homerun to deep right. However, it was hardly even a blip on the radar of the potent Warrior offense on this night as the team proceeded to score a season-high 12 runs in the top of the third to put the game away.
Chris opened up with a triple and scored on AJ's single. Austin singled and AJ scored on Jason's double off the wall. Eric stroked a single to plate Austin and Andy lined out to score Jason. Jeff then doubled to deep left to make it second and third with one out for hot-man Jordan. Jordan came through with another hit, a run-scoring single. Jon walkd to load the bases for Adam who singled to socre Jeff's pinch runner, Andy. Chris took care of cleaning up the bases, blasting a grand slam to deep left. AJ wasn't done though, singling to keep the party going and Austin followed suit. Jason doubled again to score AJ and Eric crushed a mile-high fly ball to deep left to plate Austin and end the game's scoring, 23-1.
Life meekly went down in order in the bottom half and Rez walked away as the undeniably superior team.
Rez is now 16-8 on the year (12-5 in league play, tied with Life for 2nd place, but Rez has the tie-breaker). The Warriors can finish with what would be a franchise-high 13 wins in the Round Lake league with a victory over St. Andrew Blue next week. The game is at 5:50 on field #3.
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