Porters Chapel Academy took care of its business with one big inning on Thursday, then cruised to a victory over Glenbrook.

Brady Towne and Chris Mixon both homered during a six-run third inning, and Matt Cranfield threw five shutout innings to carry the Eagles to an 8-1 win.

&#8220They’ve got a good team. I was very impressed with the way their coach used his pitching rotation. He kept us off-balance,” PCA coach Randy Wright said. &#8220I thought they swung the bats real well, too. I know we held them to one run, but they had some great at-bats. They battled and battled and battled. I think they’re going to go a long way in the playoffs, and I think they could be a team we could see in the state finals.”

Glenbrook starter Andy Pendergrass kept PCA (7-4) off-balance in the first two innings. The slow-throwing right-hander allowed only a walk to Dan Ivey, who he quickly picked off.

It didn’t take long for Pendergrass to get into trouble in the third, though. Some of it was his own doing, and some of it came courtesy of his fielders.

After Cranfield led off with a groundout, Towne hit the second pitch he saw over the left field fence for the first run of the game. Cole Smith followed with a walk, then Mixon took Pendergrass deep again to make it 3-0.

Two errors and a botched double play ball helped the Eagles score another run before Spencer Pell lofted what should have been an inning-ending fly ball to left-center. Neither Glenbrook center fielder Jake Byrd nor left fielder Logan Hollingsworth called for the ball, however, and Hollingsworth missed it as he dove at the last second.

Pell ended up on third with a two-run triple, and the Eagles had a 6-0 lead.

&#8220We gave them some momentum. We just got plagued with errors early and couldn’t come back from it,” Glenbrook coach Heath Harville said, adding that Pell’s triple was the result of miscommunication between Byrd and Hollingsworth. &#8220(Byrd) is usually money out there.

&#8220If it’s out there, it’s pretty much an out. I happen to look up and my left fielder is tracking it down and my center fielder is jogging to it. It was just miscommunication.”

The big lead was plenty for Cranfield. He allowed four hits and a walk in his five innings on the mound, and had runners on in every inning except the fifth. But he pitched out of every jam, finished with seven strikeouts, and kept Glenbrook from ever putting together a rally.

The Apaches scored their only run in the sixth, when Shelby Wise was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. PCA answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning, on an RBI groundout by Mixon and an RBI single by Michael Busby, to put the game away.