VCA Baseball Wins Opener at Covenant Christian

Demotte, IN - The Victory Christian Academy Lions defeated the Covenant Christian Knights 15-6 in its 2011 opener on Tuesday night.  Calvin Reisinger started for the Lions (1-0) and pitched four solid innings before giving way to Justin Reisinger with one out in the 5th.

The Lions tallied three runs in the opening frame highlighted by Justin Reisinger's 2-run inside the park home run.  The Knights scored single runs in the first and second inning bringing the score to 3-2.  A Peter Guess single and Justin Reisinger double put runners at first and third with no outs in the top of the third inning, but the Knights' Bowers was able to get two strikeouts and a soft grounder to end the threat.

The Knights brought in Dexter to pitch in the top of the 5th, and VCA promptly responded with four runs.  The Knights fought back with four runs in the bottom of the inning capped by Dexter's 3-run home run.

The Knights brought in their second  baseman Patton to pitch in the sixth inning and it was all Lions from there on out.  Five hits and eight runs later, VCA had a 15-6 lead that would hold up for the final tally.

VCA next plays at LaLumiere in LaPorte on Tuesday, April 5 at 4:30.

VCA (15) at Covenant Christian (6)

Lions            AB  R  H BI SO BB   Knights       AB  R  H BI SO BB
C Reisinger p-ss  5  3  1  0  1  1   Bakker cf      4  2  1  0  0  1
Guess 2b          5  3  3  4  0  2   Patton 2b-p    3  0  0  0  2  0
J Reisinger ss-p  5  3  4  4  0  0    Bultema 2b    1  1  1  0  0  0
Lange c           5  1  1  1  3  0   Bowers p       3  1  2  1  0  0
Smith 1b          4  2  0  1  1  1   Dexter 1b-p    3  1  1  4  0  0
Duey 3b           4  1  0  0  3  1   Thorn lf       3  0  0  0  2  0
Price cf          4  0  1  1  2  0   E Croft c      3  1  1  0  0  1
McNamara rf       4  1  2  1  1  0   Pineiro ss     2  0  0  0  1  0
Nichols lf        4  1  0  1  2  1    Bogaard ss    1  0  0  0  1  0
                                     M Croft 3b     3  0  0  0  0  0
                                     Hoek rf        3  0  0  0  1  0
Totals           40 15 12 13 13  6                 29  6  6  5  7  2

VCA  3 0 0 0 4 8 - 15
CC   1 1 0 0 4 0 -  6

2b - Bowers, ECroft, JReisinger 2
3b -
HR - JReisinger, Dexter
LOB - VCA 7, CC 5
SB - CReisinger 2, McNamara 2, Guess, JReisinger, Duey, Smith 2, 
     Lange 2, Bowers
E - Duey, JReisinger
PB - Lange 4 

VCA                  IP  H  R ER BB SO HR PC-ST
CReisinger (W, 1-0) 4.1  4  4  4  1  4  0 72-39
JReisinger          1.2  2  2  2  1  3  1 41-24

CC                   IP  H  R ER BB SO HR PC-ST
Bowers (L, 0-1)     4.0  4  3  3  2 10  1 73-46
Dexter              1.0  3  4  4  4  4  0 34-24
Patton              1.0  5  8  8  2  1  0 45-29

HBP - Pineiro, McNamara