Warriors Back On Winning Track

The Resurrection Life Warriors got back on the right track with a convincing 21-5 victory over Pax Christi last week. The team rebounded nicely from its first loss and pounded out 21 hits and drew five walks in the game. Jeff Tenney led the offensive charge with two homeruns, a two-run shot in the first and a grand slam in the second to earn Player of the Game honors.

The Warriors got off to a fast start with three runs in the first inning. With one out, Adam Hey lined a single to left. Eric Johnson reached on an error to put two on and Logan Brincefield hit into a forceout to plate Adam for the first run. Jeff then launched his first homerun of the game to make it 3-0 Rez. Lee Valle and Aaron Beintema both singled but a flyout ended the inning.

Pax didn't score in its half, stranding a lead-off error. Rez came right back and added six more runs to its lead to take a 9-0 lead after one and a half.

Austin Colby doubled to start the second and moved to third on Bryan Christensen's single. Tim Jandro followed with an rbi force-out. Adam then singled to put two runners on and after the second out, Logan walked to load the bases for Jeff. Jeff deposited a ball over the left-center field fence for the grand slam and an 8-0 Warriors lead. Next, Lee reached on an error and moved to second on Aaron's single. John Beintema came through with an rbi single to plate Lee and cap the inning's scoring.

Pax scored two runs on three hits and an error in the second inning to make it 9-2 Rez after two full innings. The Rez Life bats kept adding to the lead with three more runs in the top of the third. With one out, Tim tripled and scored on Adam's base knock. After the second out, Logan reached on an error to keep the inning alive. Jeff was intentionally walked to load the bases for Lee who came through with a line drive on the left-field line to plate two runs.

Pax made it a closer game with three runs of its own in the bottom of the third inning but never seriously threatened. Pax knocked out four hits including a two-run triple in the inning.

In the fourth inning, Rez pushed nine runs across to end the game via 15-run mercy rule. John singled to start the frame and sprinted home on Austin's fourth triple of the season. After the first out, Tim lifted a sac fly to score Austin, but reached base as the right-fielder dropped the ball. Adam roped his fourth hit of the game to plate Tim to make it 15-5 Rez. After the second out, Logan doubled to put runners at second and third. Jeff walked intentionally again to load the bases and Lee came through again with another two-rbi single. Aaron knocked out his third hit to score Jeff and John ripped his third hit to score Lee. Austin walked to re-load the bases and for Bryan who walked to score another run. Tim singled to bring home John and end the scoring, 21-5.

Pax had one man reach in the fourth, but didn't score to end the game after four innings.

Next week, Rez plays St. Andrew Red at 7:50 on field 5. Rez held its third place spot in the standings with its 3-1 record. EPAG knocked off Wooddale Mercy Rules 16-5 to take sole control of first place, pushing Mercy Rules into second.