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Sandy • Woods Cross' baseball team may not have felt it completely took advantage of several early-inning errors by Jordan on Thursday.

But no matter. The flood gates eventually opened for the visiting Wildcats, and the result was a 19-2 bludgeoning of the defending Class 5A state champs at Jordan High.

The win was the fifth straight for Woods Cross (5-1), but first-year coach Trevor Amicone was trying to keep expectations at a reasonable level for the 4A Wildcats.

"We're trying not to get too far ahead of ourselves. We're trying to take care of today," Amicone said. "That's not coach-speak. We're trying to win every day."

Jordan (2-2) was giving Woods Cross plenty of help through the first three innings.

The Beetdiggers committed two errors in the first inning, but the 'Cats could translate an early bases-loaded situation into one run when Josh Cowley singled up the middle to score Kyle Rogers.

In the third, three more errors contributed mightily to two Woods Cross runs. But it could have been worse, as Jordan again got out of a bases-loaded jam at the end of the rally.

That was it for the errors, however. From that point on, the Wildcats' bats were in full force.

Five runners crossed the plate in the fourth as both Cowley and Jordan Lewis had two-RBI singles.

As the game got out of hand, Jordan coach Chad Fife used four pitchers in the sixth. Woods Cross tallied 11 runs on 11 hits in the 17-batter rally. Meanwhile, Woods Cross pitcher Brady Childs got out of jams in the first and third innings and allowed only one run in four innings.

"My confidence level never changed. I trust my guys no matter what happens," Childs said. "Whether there's no runners on or the bases are loaded."

Childs, who gave way to reliever Lewis in the fifth, left the bases loaded full of Beetdiggers in the first by striking out a pair of batters. A groundout was induced in the third to end a first-and-third situation for Jordan.

"My accuracy was on, and I didn't really change anything," Childs said. "We just had a couple of bad breaks early [in the first and third], and those things happen." —

Woods Cross 19, Jordan 2

R Woods Cross scores three times in the first three innings.

• The Wildcats erupted for 16 runs in the final three innings.

• Brady Childs and Jordan Lewis limit Jordan to two runs on seven hits.