There’s a sign on the side of Warren Central’s concession stand listing the program’s division championships over the years. The 2016 Vikings still have some work to do to add to it, but it’s just about time to start shopping for paint.

Booth Buys allowed one unearned run in 5 2/3 innings, D.J. Lewis and Conner Wilkinson each had two hits and scored a run, and Warren Central beat Clinton 4-1 on Monday to all but lock up its second consecutive Division 4-6A championship.

The Vikings (12-5, 5-0 Division 4-6A) won the season series with Clinton (12-9, 3-2) and can clinch the title by sweeping hapless Murrah (1-11, 0-4) in a doubleheader Tuesday at Viking Field.

“It feels great. To be able to get the district championship, hopefully, in back-to-back years is huge. It’s great for our program and great for our team,” Buys said.

Warren Central beat Clinton 8-4 last week, then had to wait an extra three days to do it again when Friday’s rematch was rained out. It lost to Germantown in the interim, and then started slow against the Arrows on Monday night.

Clinton pitcher Dawson Walters retired the first eight batters he faced before Tanner Chambers reached on an infield single in the third inning. D.J. Lewis followed with an RBI double, and the Vikings were on the board.

They added two more runs in the fourth inning. Three straight singles, the last by Tyler Vroman, brought in a run and Wilkinson scored on a sacrifice fly by John Austin Burris to make it 3-0.

Lewis also singled in the fifth inning and eventually scored on a passed ball for a 4-0 lead.

Lewis, Wilkinson and Vroman all finished with two hits.

“They lost a fly ball in the lights and it gave us a momentum swing, and we did a couple of little things just like last game. We got a bunt down and they didn’t get him out, and then we had a couple of big knocks,” Warren Central coach Conner Douglas said. “They did what they were supposed to when the runners were out there.”

That was plenty of cushion for Buys to work with. He scattered four hits and two walks while striking out three in 5 2/3 innings. He left in the sixth inning with two runners on and two outs. Clinton scored a run on a passed ball, but reliever Taft Nesmith got out of the jam with a strikeout and also pitched the seventh to earn the save.

“My fastball and curveball were good, but I have to give credit to Tyler (McRight) behind the plate and my whole defense. Those guys really played a heck of a game tonight,” Buys said.