North Vermilion Patriots score 11 runs in first two innings, cruise to win

Things went according to plan for the North Vermilion Patriots in the Class 4A baseball playoffs on Monday.
For starters, they won their first round playoff game, beating No. 30 Hunnington 13-0 in five innings.
The No. 3 Patriots will play host the winner of No. 14 Carencro/No. 19 Belle Chassee game. Those two teams played Tuesday night, after the Meridional went to press.
The second round match up is the best two out of three series that will be played this weekend in Kaplan.
North Vermilion head coach Jeremy Trahan was not overlooking its first round game by no means. He is thrilled his team won, plus, Trahan was able to play a majority of his players.
“I hate playing the first round because you never know,” said Trahan. “A couple of years back, we were 27-3 and got beat in the first round. Today, we came out scored early and got a lot of players in. I was able to use it as a bull pen day for pitchers John Touchet and Allen Johnson.”
“We wanted to go into the second round full strength.”
The Patriots used four pitchers. Touchet started and gave up two hits and struck out five in two innings.
With an 11-0 lead, Coach Trahan rested Touchet and put in pitcher Allen Johnson in the top of third inning. All Allen did was strike out all six batters he faced in two innings of work.
Camden Breaux and Braxton Savant pitched the final innings for NV.
The four NV pitchers combined to give up only two hits and struck out 13.
The Patriots scored two runs in the first inning when Tyson LeBlanc hit a 2-RBI home run.
Then in the second frame, they blew it open with nine runs.
NV had three singles, a double and a home run in the big inning.
Dale Martin launched a 3-RBI home run in the inning that made it 9-0.
Top hitters for NV were LeBlanc (2-for-4, 4 RBI), Dylan Naquin (2-for-2 2 RBI), Camden Breaux (1-for-3, 1 RBI,), Martin (1-for-2, 2 RBI), Ethan Frederick (1-for-1, 1 RBI) and Bradley Christ (1-for-1, RBI).