In sports, there are two kinds of blowouts. One involves mismatched teams and is usually over before it begins. The other pits two relatively even teams, one of which strings together a few plays and pulls out to an insurmountable lead.

Madison Central handed Vicksburg High the latter form Tuesday.

The Lady Jags broke open a scoreless tie with eight runs in the top of the fifth inning, and went on to beat the Missy Gators 13-0 at Halls Ferry Park. Kristen Qualls went 3-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs for Madison Central (11-2, 4-0 Division 2-6A) and Mya Hopson was 3-for-4 with an RBI.

Vicksburg (9-4, 0-2) had only three hits — two singles by Kortni Newman and a sixth-inning double by Morgan Callendar. The Missy Gators did have several hard-hit balls, but were never able to find the gaps in the defense that Madison did in the later innings.

“We’re doing a lot better this year getting out of that than we have in the past. We held them 0-0 for four innings. That one bad inning hurt us,” VHS coach Michelle Fisackerly said. “We’re still 9-4. I can’t complain. I think we’re more competitive than we have been in the last couple of seasons, and it’s still early. This is only our second district game. If we keep fighting, it could be totally different by the end of district play.”

Madison Central had four hits in the first four innings, then doubled that total in the fifth.

Hopson and Taylor Walker led off with singles, then advanced into scoring position on a ground out. Ashley Bergeron followed with a grounder to short. Blake DeRossette threw home to cut off the lead runner, but the ball skipped off the dirt in front of the plate and went to the backstop.

Hopson scored on the initial fielder’s choice and Walker came in on the error to give Madison a 2-0 lead.

That misplay opened the floodgates.

Following a fly out, the Lady Jags belted six straight hits — four of them doubles. Hopson had the last hit in the barrage, an RBI single that made it 8-0.

“I think it was who was going to get mad and ticked off that it was 0-0,” Fisackerly said.

Qualls delivered a three-run double in the sixth as Madison tacked on five more runs, and it won after the sixth by the 10-run mercy rule.

Clinton 11,

Warren Central 1

Warren Central’s Katie Channell drove in the lone WC run with a single in a loss at Clinton. Brooke Patterson had two singles and Lexi Burleigh and Karley Hinson added a double apiece for WC (11-4).