STILL PEAKING
8/25/02

Peaked in High School adds their second championship by winning the CSA Summer Co-ed Softball Sunday title.

Peaked In High School romps in the championship game against Homewreckers and adds another championship for the franchise, 17-5.

The Peaked In High School/Homewreckers rivalry was the best in the league. The teams met three times. In the first regular season match-up, Homewreckers crushed Peaked 22-9. This gave Homewreckers the early division lead. The two teams were scheduled to meet again later in the season and this time Peaked managed to come back and knock off the Homewreckers, 14-13. The win gave Peaked In High School the regular season division title and home field advantage throughout the playoffs. This would prove to be a key factor.

The first round of the playoffs went according to form, mostly. The top seed and eventual champion moved on easily, beating 8th seed Churchill Arms, 15-3. The second seed, Homewreckers had to come back in the bottom of the seventh to eliminate the 7th place team, Three Dollar Cafe. In the four/five game, Atlanta Auto Auction easily dispatched the five seed, ISU. The upset came in the days last game. Third seed Bases Loaded was facing the sixth seed, No Experience Necessary, for the third time this season, and after a win and a tie, No Experience was able to turn the tables and they sent Bases Loaded home for the season.

The semi-final match-ups also went according to form. Peaked In High School trailed early against Atlanta Auto Auction, they were down 6-2 entering the third inning. Then the defense picked up and shut AAA down, and led by Playoff MVP Michelle Saba, they took a 7-6 lead after three and never gave up that lead. Peaked went on to a 12-8 lead.

In the other semi-final, runs were plentiful. No Experience Necessary came out quickly and put seven runs on the board in the top of the first against the Homewreckers. In the bottom of the inning, Homewreckers countered with seven of their own. In the second NEN was kept off the board, and HW put another seven spot up. The score was 14-7 after two and the rout was on. NEN managed to score three in the third, but that was all they would get the rest of the day. HW plated four in the third inning, and seven more in the fourth to end the game by mercy rule, 25-10, in the fourth inning.

This led to a championship match-up of 1 versus 2. Being the home team gave Peaked a strategic advantage. In the top of the first, Homewreckers were kept off the board. In the bottom of the inning, Peaked took a lead they would never reliquish. They score five runs and were in control.
Neither team scored in the second, and after HW got on the board with three in the third, Peaked responded with two runs of their own. The score was 7-3 after three innings. The fourth inning was the deciding factor. Led by their shortstop and Championship Game MVP, Ray Peebles, Peaked held HW to one run, and in the bottom of the inning Peaked put ten on the board. When HW could only score one run in the fifth, the mercy rule took effect and Peaked In High School had secured the championship 17-5 in five innings.

PEAKED IN HIGH SCHOOL
starting line-up

1. PATRICK MCCONNELL
2. MONICA HOLLISON
3. RAY PEEBLES
4. LEE TEMPLE
5. DARREN HULST
6. MICHELLE SABA
7. KIRK GRAVES
8. PAUL CRATER
9. SUSAN WEIGEL
10. CHUCK CURRIN
11. KATIE BLANKENSTEIN

Did not play
TONJA DAVIS, JANYE MCCLINTON