Three Strikes

In 1978, on the first day at his Christian school, Spencer (Spence) Edwards wagers with his best friend that he can get a date with a beautiful and very wealthy transfer student, Patti Adams. He'll to get three chances (three strikes) to ask her. When he asks, she declines because she's going steady with another boy. While he's helping with her with physics, he learns she's broken up with the other boy. On a horse-riding outing with school friends, she refuses to date him a second time...
More Description

In 1978, on the first day at his Christian school, Spencer (Spence) Edwards wagers with his best friend that he can get a date with a beautiful and very wealthy transfer student, Patti Adams. He'll to get three chances (three strikes) to ask her. When he asks, she declines because she's going steady with another boy. While he's helping with her with physics, he learns she's broken up with the other boy. On a horse-riding outing with school friends, she refuses to date him a second time but won't tell him why. Spence and Patti's lives become further muddled when he learns she's pregnant and her parents are pressing her to get an abortion. A snow storm blankets the town and destroys an opportunity to ask her again. That's when he's falsely accused of being the father of her unborn child, and the school demands a public apology.


In 1978, Spencer (Spence) Edwards hasn't been on a date in over a year and is ultra-picky about who he'll ask out because he seeks to honor God. In their annual wager, his best friend bets that if Spence asked Patti, the most beautiful girl in the senior class, for a date, she would refuse him three times. A teacher partnered Patti with Spence in a class project and he ventured to ask her. She said 'no' (Strike One).

But when forbidden circumstances place them together, his stellar reputation takes a nosedive. Angry parents, horse rides, friends chanting rumors, semi-trucks, and snow storms generate friction that inserts a wedge between him and Patti. Romance must take a back seat while he sorts through a myriad of roadblocks to win the wager. God seems to have withdrawn, and after he's falsely accused of the unthinkable, he considers giving up ... almost.