[3/22/03]Jason Brown cruised through six innings Friday night, then held off a late charge to give St. Aloysius a 9-5 Division 7-1A victory over West Lincoln.

Brown, the Flashes’ No. 1 starter, scattered five hits over the first six innings as the Flashes built a 9-1 lead.

West Lincoln, though, put five on the board in the top of the seventh before Brown coaxed a weak groundout by Shane Lynch to end the game.

“My slider was working and I finally did get my fastball working,” Brown said.

Rob Jones led St. Al with a double and an RBI, while Brown had a pair of singles and scored two runs, Walker Hengst had a single and an RBI and Kyle Richards belted a double.

“Our offense did a good job,” Brown said. “But they started throwing wild.”

Losing pitcher Landon Case pitched four innings and allowed six runs, but the Flashes only led 3-1 and had four hits heading into the fifth inning.

Chad Cox led off the fifth by reaching on an error, then Case walked three and gave up a Brown single. Hengst added an RBI groundout as St. Al built a 7-1 lead.

St. Al added a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth on two errors, a Brown single, and a Jones’ RBI groundout.

Daniel Lofton’s two-RBI single in the seventh inning and a Daniel Allen RBI double pulled West Lincoln to within four, all with two outs.

Cox scored the first run of the game after walking, stealing second, advancing to third on a fly out and scoring on one of Case’s four wild pitches.

Charlie Amborn had an RBI sacrifice fly in the third and the Flashes scored in the fourth on a Hengst single.

The Flashes are scheduled to host Magee today at 4 p.m.

“It feels good to win in division,” Brown said. “We’re on track for another division championship.”