At a drizzly Porters Chapel on Tuesday, the grounds crew ran out of Quick-Dry.

But the Eagles never ran out of offense and stellar pitching.

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John Michael Harris drove in seven runs, paced by a grand slam and a three-run home run, to lead PCA to a doubleheader sweep over visiting Rebul.

The pitching was on point as the two performances on the hill could have been mirror images of one another.

PCA ace Montana McDaniel scattered six hits over five innings, giving up only one run and striking out five in the first game, an 11-1 win.

Matt Warren pitched a three-hitter, yielding only three runs and striking out eight in a 15-3 decision in five innings. Warren, who was plagued by a nagging elbow injury last season, showed what he could do healthy.

“I feel a lot better this year,” Warren said. “We came together as a team tonight and really started hitting. Montana is doing good like he did last year and I hope to do the same thing.”

In the first contest, the Eagles (4-1, 4-0 District 5-A) wasted little time hanging big numbers on the board off Rebul starter Ryan Lea to erase an early 1-0 deficit.

Back-to-back doubles by McDaniel and Harris lit the fuse on a 10-run, six-hit explosion.

Harris plated McDaniel with his double and then Warren drove in Harris and Colby Rushing with a single.

Then Harris, in his second plate appearance of the frame, did the unthinkable. He pulled the offering from Lea and launched a bases-loaded big fly over the center field fence. Later in the inning, Rushing doubled and scored on a pair of errors to cap the biggest inning of the season for the Eagles.

The rest of the contest was dominated by McDaniel, who mixed in a curveball in spots with a ferocious and well-placed fastball.

“We were very lucky to play considering the conditions,” PCA coach Doug Branning said. “Montana (McDaniel) and Matthew (Warren) both were pumping strikes in there and weren’t wasting a lot of time. I don’t know how many hits we had total, but we hit a lot of hard-hit balls that didn’t turn into hits. It was a good performance all the way around.”

The second game was just more of the same for Rebul (2-6). After the Eagles seized a 3-0 lead off  two costly errors and an RBI double by

Rushing, the third inning was when the Eagles struck for mortal wounds.

With two runners in scoring position, Harris took the first offering from Rebul hurler Logan Smith and blasted it over the fence in center field. Thanks to some more costly errors and a bases-loaded walk by Cameron Upton, the Eagles finished the third with six runs off just three hits.

Reed Gordon singled in a run in the fourth and Jonah Masterson ended the game by clearing the bases with a three-RBI double slapped over the centerfielder’s head.

Contact Steve Wilson at swilson@vicksburgpost.com