Solid Victory Over Hot EPAG

The Warriors from Resurrection Life played a solid game last week en route to a ten-rule victory over Eden Prairie Assembly of God. EPAG hadn't lost in six total games and was coming in as a very hot team. However, the Warriors proved to be just too tough and cruised to a 15-5 win.

The team had just 19 hits, but in just five innings. Jeff Johnson earned his second Player of the Game honor with a 2-3 game with a walk. Jeff stayed consistent, hitting three homeruns on the game, two three-run homers and one for an out. Jeff drove home six runners and scored three times.

Chris Wold, Jason Merritt and Jonathan Engbrecht all had three hits. Jeff Tenney, Adam Hey and Austin Colby added two each while Eric Johnson and Chris Burr managed just one apiece.

The team used all four homeruns and hit two for outs, to increase its season total to 30 that count and 12 that don't.

The squad started things great, putting up its 11th seven-run inning of the year in the top of the first. Wold singled and trotted home on Jason's line-drive homer off the light pole in left-center. After an out, Burr walked and moved to second on Tenney's line-drive single. Jeff Johnson then exploded through a ball for his first three-run shot of the night. Jonathan followed with another no-doubter, this time a solo job to put Rez up 6-0. Adam singled and after an Austin pop-out, Wold singled to move Adam up one base. Jason finished a great personal first inning with an rbi-double and a lineout ended the frame.

EPAG had its first two runners reach, but nothing came of it as Burr made a nice running catch in right to end the inning. Rez stayed on the offensive with three more runs in the second. Burr and Tenney singled back-to-back and jogged home on Jeff's second three-run homer, another bomb to deep left-center. The team managed nothing else, leaving a two-out single from Austin on base.

EPAG came back in its half, plating four runs on four singles and a walk. Now up 10-4, Rez went down in order in the third inning leaving the door open for EPAG. However, EPAG also went scoreless wasting back-to-back singles. Wold made a fine play to end the inning, kicking a grounder to Eric at second and then hustling back to cover second base for the force-out. An assist and a putout on the play.

Rez fell victim to the homerun rule in the fourth, using its first two outs on homeruns, both line shots. Jonathan singled with two outs but a grounder ended the inning. EPAG had two hits in the bottom of the fourth, but a nice 6-4-3 double-play from Tenney to Eric to Jeff Johnson at first wiped away any threat.

After sitting through two and half straight scoreless innings, the fans were finally woken up with a five-run frame from Rez in the fifth. Austin hit a hustle double to left to start the inning and came home on Wold's tasered double to right-center. Jason doubled but Wold eased in to third with no real hurry to score. With runners on second and third, Eric hit an rbi-single to score Wold and Burr followed with an rbi-grounder. WIth one out, Tenney hit into a forceout to bring up Jeff. Jeff walked to put two on for Jonathan who singled to score Tenney and make it 14-4. Adam followed with another rbi single and Austin lined out to end the frame, 15-4 Warriors.

EPAG needed two to keep things going, but only pushed one across leaving runners on and ending the game 15-5 Rez.

The victory makes Rez a cool 10-0 heading into three straight double-headers. The twinbill this week is against Immanuel and Wooddale on field three starting at 5:50. Wooddale is in second place at 9-2 and a Rez victory will pretty much ensure the league title.