Midway through the first inning of Saturday’s game between St. Aloysius and Wingfield, a pair of hawks circled Bazinsky Field.

Moments later, apparently sensing that Wingfield was already dead meat, they flew away.

Curtis Robertson went 2-for-2 with a pair of singles and two RBIs, Ryno Martin-Nez roped a double and three RBIs, and Jordan Muirhead tripled in a run as St. Aloysius hammered Wingfield 18-3.

After Joseph Nosser’s RBI single with no outs in the bottom of the third put St. Al (5-4) ahead by 15 runs, the game was called because of the mercy rule. Even though it was significantly shortened, the game still lasted nearly two hours.

“We’re playing pretty well right now. We’re starting to click,” said St. Al coach Clint Wilkerson, whose team has won four of its last five. “This team has really rallied and grown up a lot the last couple weeks. We’re playing good.”

The game was never close.

St. Al starter Blake Tidwell set the Falcons (0-10) down in order in the top of the first and the Flashes went to work in the bottom of the inning. Of course, their task seemed to be standing in the batter’s box and taking pitches.

St. Al scored seven runs in the inning on only one hit, a single by Jonathan Longmire. Six walks, a hit batter, an error and six wild pitches contributed to the rally. Four runs scored on wild pitches and Longmire’s single was the only ball hit out of the infield.

“We have a long ways to go. Part of the problem is we don’t have any pitching,” Wingfield coach Eric Lantrip said. “We’re trying to develop pitchers as we go along.

“We’re having to shuffle people around to play positions and they’re not qualified to play that position.”

It was more of the same in the second, with the Flashes using four walks and two errors by Wingfield to score another eight runs. Robertson’s two-run single and Martin-Nez’s two-run double finished the inning, which gave St. Al a 15-0 lead.

Wingfield rallied for three runs in the top of the third – two of them on back-to-back RBI singles from Daniel Dale and Brandon Joseph – but the Flashes quickly put a halt to the carnage in the bottom of the inning.

An RBI single from Pierson Waring and Muirhead’s RBI triple pushed the lead back to 17-3. Muirhead then scored on Nosser’s RBI single to make it 18-3 and end the game.