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Kleintop Tags Players for 5 Hits: A jubilant Chris Kleintop joined the postgame press conference at El Paso HS Grounds today to offer some unusual words of encouragement -- for the Peoria HS Players pitching staff he had just vanquished.%0A%0A%22It may not have looked like it%2C%22 said the Columbia HS Rottweilers right fielder%2C %22but I saw some awful good pitches today. If luck hadn%27t been on my side it might have turned out a lot different.%22 %0A%0AThat would not have been the conclusion of anyone who saw his dominant 5-for-6 hitting performance%2C which led the Rottweilers to a 26-8 win.%0A%0A%22He made it look easy%2C%22 said %2C manager of the Players. %22We never figured out what to do with him. Obviously.%22%0A%0AChris Kleintop hit a solo-shot off Donald Coniglio in the 1st%2C singled in the 2nd%2C singled in the 3rd%2C grounded out in the 3rd%2C singled in the 6th%2C walked in the 8th and hit a two-run home run off Gary Stitt in the 9th.%0A%0AThis year Kleintop has hit at a .408 clip with 33 RBIs%2C 5 home runs and 45 runs scored.%0A%0AView Boxscore%0A