Apostles Win again

Apostles win in convincing fashion.  Nothing like a cold, October rain in June to wake up the Fighting Apostles.

After almost three weeks off, we came out swinging and defeated the capable Bethel Lutheran team 18-3 in five innings.

Despite the wet, heavy air, the Apostles kept the ball flying around and out of the park all night. We scored nine in the third to take control of the game. Mark Mueller-Dahl contributed with one of his two triples on the night.

The legendary Tilman Achberger made his annual appearance and knocked in a couple of runs and was two for three. And speaking of legends, two prodigious, over-the-fence blasts by Jacob Newman and Doug Morris brought the fans out of their seats and put an exclamation point on the game.

The Burton family fielded three of our players for the first time: Dave (Burton 1.0), Erik (Burton 2.0) and Issac (Burton 3.0). And in the category of the one that got away, we almost recorded our first triple play in the modern era (the years following Dixon Bond). Tristan Cox caught a liner in shallow left center, threw to Fred Pender for a force out at second, and Fred fired to Tilman at first, where we narrowly missed the third out. Oh, well. There’ll be other opportunities.

Sunday, we play Trinity Blue at 5 p.m. at Sechler 1. Come watch. We like the company.