WIF GAME RESULTS -- OCTOBER 22, 2002

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Anderson/Luers 28, Hight/Friez 3
Upset that his team was ranked No. 2 in the first Riggs Intramural Alliance WIF Poll of the season, co-captain Pat Anderson challenged his team, and they came through big time. Harry Decker hit grand slams in the second and fourth innings, and seven of the squad's ten players in the lineup had four hits as AL cruised 28-3 in this American League contest. Eric Titze and Decker each had two homers and a double, Chris Mangan was 5-for-5 as was Zane Erickson, and Pat Anderson had a homer and four hits. Titze and Decker drove in 15 runs by themselves. For Hight/Friez, who fall to 1-2 on the season, they managed only five hits, their lone bright spot a solo homer by Kyle Tobin.

Fisher/Fossen 25, Williams/Simon 19
In certainly the wildest and most exciting game of the night, if not the year, was the come-from-behind win by top-ranked Fisher/Fossen. FF has needed to overcome deficits late in all three of their wins. The score read Fisher/Fossen ahead 12-11 headed to the bottom of the fifth of this seven inning affair, when Brandon Tedford came up with two men on. Tedford called his shot, then sent a skyrocket into the right field bleachers, giving Williams/Simon a 14-12 lead. FF then came back with back-to-back homers by captain Trevor Fisher and Brett Ripley, and run-scoring hits by William Coolidge and Brian Hylle put FF back on top 17-14. It was in the latter half of the sixth when the game became nuts. With two out and Justin Williams aboard, Blair Simon, Tedford, and Nathan Paul all hit singles, all scoring runs, making it 17 all. Chad Jungman then drove a two-run homer to left center, and suddenly WS was upsetting FF 19-17. Needing only three outs, the inning started ugly. Chris Markley homered, the margin was one. Then Andrew Berreth and Jenny Sampson smacked singles, and it was Trevor Fisher's three-run blast to to high left center that gave FF a 21-19 lead. To seal the deal, Brian Pope and Brian Hylle each added two-run homers, and a 1-2-3 bottom of 7th gave the No. 1 squad the win.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Iverson/Flyger 12, Hall/Tobin 2
Third-ranked Iverson/Flyger were the preseason No. 1, and left opening night 1-1. Now they are trying to stake their claim to the best one-loss team and remain atop the National League, and did so with defense and timely hitting in a 12-2 victory over No. 4 Hall/Tobin. Captain Chris Iverson was 4-for-4 on the night, with two runs batted in, a triple away from the cycle. Shawn Ludemann was a double away from the same feat, going 3-for-4 with 6 RBI, including a grand slam. Kade Anderson led off 3-for-4 for IF, who is now 2-1. For 1-2 Hall/Tobin, their offensive woes continue. Only a .226 team batting average, worst in the NL, they had only seven hits. Zach Parsons was the only man to have two, and Dustin Bonnett kept HT in the game early with a solo home run, and Colin Brown's double cut the lead to 3-2, but it was over after the third inning.

Kern/Tillman 25, Johnson/Wilbur 8
In a battle of the winless teams, Kern/Tillman proved what everyone thought - that they were the better team. Batting through their order in the first inning, KT clubbed 28 hits in the game, led by 5-for-5 Jake Mortenson, who drove two home runs into the right field bleachers. Allen Goodman was 4-for-4, and Greg Barringer and Jake Miller each had three hits. For the losers, JW got 19 hits,but only four from their last four hitters in the order, a combined 4-for-13. Devin O'Day and Tyler Merriam were each 4-for-4, and Joe Riis had three hits including a two-run homer for Johnson/Wilbur, who is the only winless team in the league now at 0-3.