You would be hard pressed to find someone that would think Friday's softball games would be played if you asked anybody on Thursday the 26th at 3:13pm when a massive rainstorm struck, but less than 26 hours later, First Pres would be on the field for their first away game against the new league team "River of Life". It was a familiar yet slightly depleted line-up for the Presbies. First Pres would go 3 up and 3 down in the top of the first, and would allow 4 runs in the bottom. Righty Bob Hendrix once again pitched strong, striking out 2 over 6 innings, while throwing a season high 78 pitches. He allowed only 3 earned runs whilst retiring the first batter he faced in all but one inning. Hendrix also lead the team in the "acrobatic" category, as many of his fielding attempts were done in motion.
In the top of the 7th inning, FPC would find themselves down 13 to 5, but energy was immediately shot into the team when Left Fielder Carl Miller tripled down the Left Field line to lead off the inning. Stacy Keogh would later single and score Miller, followed by another Rebecca Kress single. Tobin Shearer, or the "professor" as he is known would follow with another single and the bases were loaded. With 2 outs, Russ Thomas would step up to the plate and drill a long line drive triple, and would eventually score on the throwing error, cutting the score difference to 3. The rally would eventually fall short, but it was an amazing comeback!
First Pres did have some fielding issues as they committed a season high 16 errors in the field. Despite this, they were almost able to pull off the victory, but the final score would finish at 13-10. This is the first game of the season that the Presbies have dropped, and they now fall to 1-1. Join us next week (Friday May the 4th) at Fort Missoula Field #3 @7:30pm as First Pres will play host to the FUMC/RODDA paint team.
Game notes:
-B. Hendrix had two doubles on the night, leading the team in that category
-R. Thomas had a team leading 3 rbi's (runner's batted in). His team leading total now stands at 9
-K. Lamp once again led the team in pitches seen per at bat, with 13 total, and an average of 4.3 per at bat
-Rebecca Kress played injured, and despite this, had a perfect fielding percentage for the game
-Zach Strauch and Russ Thomas turned a key double play in the 4th inning that prevented a run from scoring
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