Season ends for church league teams

Madison Street’s B.J. Woodlee connects for a base hit to start his team’s win over Morrison Monday night.

Jordan Elkins led his team’s charge with a pair of home runs, finishing 3-for-4 at the plate, while Casey West, Aubrey Green, Cody Young, David Beard and B.J. Woodlee all had four-hit nights.

Terry Beard added three hits, and Madison Street jumped out to an early lead with 11 runs in the top of the first.

Terry Allen and Ryan Williams both homered for Morrison, with Williams finishing with four hits on the night.

Tournament play in the church league’s three divisions began last night.

In other men’s games from Monday night:

Biblebeaters 11,

Temple 9

Justin Stevens belted a seventh-inning home run to lift the Biblebeaters to victory, while Shayne Whitaker and Matt Martin finished with three hits apiece.

Temple’s Randal Harrell went 4-for-4 with two homers, including an inside-the-park shot, while Chad Hopkins had three hits.

Morrison 21,

First United 19

Morrison finished as the second-place team in the men’s ‘B’ division, and ended its season with a narrow victory. Ryan Williams had four hits, while Terry Allen was 2-for-5 with a homer and Aaron Roberts added three hits.

First United Methodist got three hits each from Mike Cantrell, Randy Rampp and Stephen Glenn, with Cantrell and Evan Cooper belting home runs in the losing effort.

Friendship 27,

First United 15

Scoring seven runs in both the fourth and sixth innings helped Friendship to a victory in their final regular-season matchup.

Brandon Locke and David Talley were both 5-for-5 in the win, while Travis Barnes and Kyle Thompson had four hits apiece.

Stephen Glenn homered for First United Methodist, while Randy Rampp was 4-for-4 and Evan Cooper had three hits.