Back-to-Back Wins for Warriors

The Resurrection Life Warriors continued their fine play with a 19-6 win over St. Andrew Red last night. The Warriors used a balanced offensive attack and their best defensive performance of the season to secure the victory.

Logan Brincefield had a solid all-around game en route to earning his first Player of the Game honors. He went 4-5 at the plate with three runs scored, two rbi and a triple. Defensively, he played a great second base handling one assist and five putouts with no errors.

Unfortunately, the team didn't get started well with only seven players at the field ten minutes before gametime. However, a player and a substitute arrived shortly and old friend and former teammate Jason Merritt was attending the game also, so he stepped in to fill the 10th spot as the game started.

Logan started the game with a line-drive out but Adam Hey singled and scored on Austin's triple off the center-field wall. Substitute Jeremy Abfalter walked and Jason roped an rbi single to score Austin to make it 2-0. Aaron Beintema started his excellent game with an rbi single to push Jeremy home. After Jeff Johnson hit into a force out, Lee Valle stayed hot with an rbi single to cap the inning's scoring at four.

St. Andrew Red swung a good bat in the first inning. Red has been swinging solid bats lately, scoring 16 and 22 in its past two games. Red started this game with four runs in the bottom of the first to tie the game. The team opened the game with four straight singles and then used Rez Life's only error to score the final two runs.

Rez came right back and scored three runs in the top of the second to retake the lead, 7-4. After the first out, Bryan Christensen strolled up to the field just in time to draw a walk. Logan stroked his first single to put two on for Adam who hit into a forceout for the second out. With runners on first and second, Austin launched one to the right-center field gap and began the race to chase down Adam. Austin was nearly successful, touching home plate just a step behind Adam for the three-run homer. Rez loaded the bases with a single from Jeremy and back-to-back walks from Jason and Aaron but Jeff hit a laser beam right at the left-center fielder for the third out.

Red didn't score in the bottom half of the second, after an unconventional doubleplay ended the frame. With one out and runners on first and second, Adam made a nice running catch in right-center for out number two and then fired a throw to first to try and double-up the runner. The throw was a little offline but Jeff ran it down and flipped to Austin covering first for the third out.

The Warriors bats didn't do much in the third, with just a single from John Beintema. Red also went down scoreless in the third stranding just one single also.

Rez Life came out swinging in the fourth putting a five spot on the scoreboard to take a commanding 12-4 lead. Logan singled and after an out came home on Austin's double to center. Jeremy had an infield single to put Austin at third base. Jason hit a pop-up to shallow center that the shortstop muffed, but Austin had tagged to score so Jason got credit for the sacrifice fly. Aaron followed with another sac fly, this one to left, to score Jeremy and make it 10-4. Jeff doubled to plate Jason and Lee singled to score Jeff.

Red got one back in the bottom of the fourth using three singles and a walk. A sharp grounder up the middle was snagged by Logan with the bases loaded to end the threat.

Rez didn't score in the fifth, leaving Logan's single on base. Red went down in order in the fifth also, after three fine defensive plays from the Warriors.

The Rez Life bats came back to life in sixth and final inning, scoring seven runs to end the game via mercy rule. Jeremy, Jason and Aaron all singled to start the inning and push the first run across. Jeff followed with his second consecutive double to plate two more runs. After an out, Tim Jandro singled to plate Jeff and Bryan rolled an infield single to put two on for Logan. Logan hit his third straight shot to left field, this one bouncing all the way to the fence for a two-run triple. Adam hit an rbi grounder for the 19th run and second out. Austin lined a single to complete his second cycle of the season and Jeremy singled also. A groundout ended the inning.

St. Andrew Red managed one run in the bottom of the sixth to make the final score 19-6. The victory pushes Rez Life's record to 4-1. Next week will be the Warriors' first doubleheader of the season with games at 7:50 and 8:50 on field #3.