The St. Aloysius Flashes did a lot of things wrong Thursday night.

They hit grounders when they should’ve hit fly balls, and fly balls when they should’ve put the ball on the ground. They left runners on and wasted opportunities.

Despite all the mistakes, though, the Flashes did manage to get one thing right – they won.

Ryno Martin-Nez struck out seven and scattered five hits in seven innings, Sean Weaver went 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored, and St. Al took the first game of their first-round Class 1A playoff series with Edinburg, 6-1.

Game 2 is scheduled for tonight at 6 in Edinburg and Game 3, if necessary, will be back at Bazinsky Field on Saturday at 2 p.m.

St. Al scored all of its runs in the first three innings, left the bases loaded in the fourth and had only one baserunner in its last two at-bats. Five runners were stranded in scoring position, and two more were thrown out on the basepaths.

Although it was nice to open the series with a win, St. Al coach Clint Wilkerson said it will take a much better effort to go deep in the playoffs.

&#8220I’m very disappointed. I’m not going to sleep well tonight,” Wilkerson said. &#8220Anytime you get a win, you’re happy. But we’ve got to play better baseball.”

Like Wilkerson, Edinburg (13-13) coach James Rowzee said his team didn’t bring its A-game to Vicksburg. The Eagles committed four errors and only advanced two runners past second base.

&#8220We’re going to have to play baseball tomorrow, for a change. Tonight it looked like the boys hadn’t played in forever, and we’re better than that,” Rowzee said.

All of the runs St. Al (23-6) scored in Game 1 off of Edinburg starter Cody Kemp (3-5) were unearned. A misplayed fly ball led to Marsh Willis’ two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the first inning, and John Robert Burnett reached on an error to lead off the second before eventually scoring on Pierson Waring’s RBI single.

Two more errors in the third, along with Brendan Beesley’s RBI single, keyed a three-run rally that stretched the Flashes’ lead to 6-0.

The mistakes began to mount there, though, and they couldn’t quite put the game away. Beesley was thrown out trying to stretch his hit into a double, and in the fourth St. Al loaded the bases with one out but failed to score.

&#8220It just felt like we were kind of in a lull and didn’t have our full intensity,” Wilkerson said. &#8220We jumped on them and then just sat back and didn’t respond. We get a couple of timely knocks and we 10-run them.”

That let Edinburg (13-13) stick around, although it never threatened to get back in the game.

The Eagles manufactured a run in the third inning on Aaron Hollis’ single, a bunt, groundout and two-out RBI single by Mitchell Wooten, but Martin-Nez escaped the jam without further damage. Edinburg left runners at second and third in the sixth inning, and squandered a leadoff walk in the seventh. Martin-Nez struck out Edinburg’s Nos. 8 and 9 hitters, then got leadoff man Eric Levy to hit a soft liner to second for the game’s final out.