Ah, the old 1-5-4-5-4-6 triple play. To get out of a jam in the fifth inning, the St. Aloysius Flashes pulled off one of the most unorthodox triple plays imaginable in what was a dominant 11-0 win over Vicksburg High.

The ball was bounced back to pitcher Tyler Breithaupt, who whipped the ball to third baseman Josh Collins to get a force out. Collins then promptly threw the ball to second baseman Thomas Trichell, pinning the runner between bases.

After a few throws back and forth, Trichell tagged the runner, then threw back to second, catching the last runner trying to advance during the mayhem and ending the inning.

“The funny thing about the triple play, is he actually should’ve went to second base instead of throwing to third in that situation, but as it unfolded I thought our guys executed and stayed within the play, and definitely that’s a first for me,” St. Al coach Sid Naron said.

That crazy defensive sequence adequately summed up the game for St. Al, as everything seemed to go right.

The Flashes scored their first run when Kieran Theriot made it home off of a wild pitch, and the next inning Wes Warnock drove another run home with a sacrifice bunt.

Collins scored on another wild pitch in the third, but the Flashes really opened things up in the fourth with an RBI single and three more runs on an error and a walk. Trichell scored on a fielder’s choice in the fifth, and in the next inning his brother James Trichell smacked a triple that drove in another run. The Flashes scored twice more by error in their shutout victory.

Collins finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, and Theriot scored three times. Thomas Trichell was 1-for-3 with two runs scored.

Tyler Breithaupt pitched six shutout innings for St. Al. He allowed three hits and one walk, and struck out seven. Lane Hubbard finished with one inning of scoreless relief.

Tyron Moore was 3-for-3 for Vicksburg, which finished with five hits. The Gators, however, committed five errors and their pitchers issued nine walks.

“I thought we were a little rusty, hadn’t been able to play in two weeks due to the weather, but I’m very proud of the energy and the effort that we brought,” Naron said. “I thought we had a great pitching performance, played with a really good defense until there late. Very proud of Tyler Breithaupt and Lane Hubbard there coming in late to shut out a very improved Vicksburg team. I think we forced some pressure early in the game, and were able to push some runs across, but offensively I thought we had a lot of room to improve, but at the same time we scored every inning and that’s a big plus moving ahead.”

It was a tough loss for Vicksburg, but coach Derrick DeWald liked the effort from his team.

“At the end of the day, we’re going to learn from it,” DeWald said. “We’re going to try and get better, and the beauty about this game is we can get up in the morning and play again tomorrow and hopefully correct some of the mistakes we had today, and hopefully pitch better, and we’re going to move on. That’s all we can do, and I mean at the end we still competed hard, we still played hard, and we did go seven innings. We could’ve easily stopped playing.”

The Gators (1-1) were playing just their second game of the season after three rainouts — including one against St. Al.

Friday’s game was originally scheduled to be against Port Gibson, but that matchup was postponed because Port Gibson did not have enough available players. That opened the door for last Monday’s rainout with St. Al to be rescheduled.

Vicksburg will travel to play Franklin County on Saturday afternoon.