Warriors Fall to Redeemer

The Resurrection Life Warriors took a beating at the hands of some former teammates last week in a 19-9 defeat against Redeember Bible Church. The Warriors never got their bats going and Redeember rode some cheap hits early to some hot bats late for the victory.

The Warriors had a bad start as Austin Colby flew out to the wall to start the game, just his second out this season in the first inning. After a groundout from Aaron Beintema, Ryan Norman roped a single to try and ignite a two-out rally. Adam Hey followed with a single and Jeff Tenney walked to load the bases but a sharp lineout from Lee Valle ended the threat.

Redeemer pounced in its half of the inning, scoring four times to take a 4-0 lead after one inning. After a popout to start the frame, Jason Merritt singled and moved to third on Andy Briggs' bloop double. A booted grounder allowed one run to score and put runners on the corners. Chris Burr hit a liner to right-center to score another run. A foulout from Jamy Antoine was the second out and a walk followed to loaded the bases. Gregg Williams came through with a seeing-eye single to score two to finish the scoring.

Rez came back strong in the second inning with five runs to take the lead, 5-4. Jeff Johnson lasered a line-drive homerun to start the inning and Eric Johnson followed with a single. John Beintema blooped a single to put runners at first and second with no outs. A strikeout was the first out and a pop-out was the second out. Austin stepped up and roped one off the center-field wall for a run-scoring double to make it 4-2. Aaron delivered the big hit, lining a single to score Austin and John and tying the game. Ryan singled again and Adam doubled to score Aaron and put runners at second and third. However, Tenney lined a shot that was caught by Burr in left-center to end the inning.

Redeemer was unable to answer, going down one, two, three in the bottom of the second to keep the game at 5-4 Rez Life after two innings.

Rez had a chance to open up a lead in the third, but the team was unable to muster much offense, scoring just two runs on a Jeff single and Eric two-run blast to left.

Redeemer had a big bottom half to open up an 11-7 lead after three innings. A leadoff error got things going for Redeemer who then had three lazy singles sandwiched with a force-out to score two runs and put two on for Jamy. Jamy delivered the first big hit of the night, launching a three-run bomb to right-center to make it 9-7 Redeemer. Two walks and two singles plated two more runs in the inning.

The Rez bats again faltered scoring just two runs in the top of the fourth to cut the deficit to two, 11-9. Substitute Mike Maguire blooped a single to start the inning and was followed by Austin's second off-the-wall double of the game. Aaron lofted a sac fly to plate Mike and Ryan singled to score Austin. Back-to-back popouts ended the inning for the Warriors.

Redeemer's bats finally heated up in the bottom of the fourth, ripping out eight hits including a big three-run homer from Gregg to cap the innings' scoring, 19-9 Redeemer.

The Warriors were a little shell-shocked and the bats looked it in the top of the fifth, going down without a hit to end the game via ten-rule mercy rule, 19-9.

Eric Johnson captures Player of the Game with two hits, two runs and two rbi including a two-run homer.

The Rez Life Warriors play league-leader Wooddale Mercy Rules (8-1) this week on field 4 at 7:50. Big game for the Warriors. A loss would pretty much eliminate them from league title consideration, as they would be 5-4, three games back in the loss column and four games back because of tie-breaker rules.