Photo by Kim North St. Clairsville righthander Brody Saunders works to the plate during Tuesday’s game against visiting Wheeling Park at Memorial Park. The Red Devils remained undefeated with a 11-1 win in five innings.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The beatings continued for the St. Clairsville baseball team. Eleven up and eleven down.

The undefeated Red Devils sent Wheeling Park home Tuesday with a 11-1 victory in five innings on the sun-soaked Memorial Park diamond in high school baseball action. It was the fifth time — and second in two days — that St. Clairsville has ended a game this season with the 10-run mercy rule.

“Right now, these guys have put in a lot of time and it is paying off for us,” veteran St. Clairsville head coach Tom Sliva said. “We saw a lot of different pitchers with different styles today, but we had some good at-bats. We worked the counts, and when we got two strikes, we had good two-strike approaches.”

St. Clairsville scored two runs in the first as Hunter Hoffman singled in Braylen Blomquist.

Hoffman would then score on an error.

The Red Devils made it 6-0 with a four-run second frame. Hoffman once again singled in Blomquist.

Marcus Bush raced home on an error. Winning pitcher Brody Saunders and Niko Jacob drew bases-loaded walks to force in runs.

Wheeling Park avoided being shutout, with some help from the Red Devils, as Nate Simon singled up the middle with two outs to chase in Jared Marsh. Marsh had reached on an error and went to second on an errant pickoff attempt.

St. Clairsville got that run back in the bottom of the inning when Blomquist, who singled three times and scored four runs, came in on Mikey Balgo’s single to left. The Red Devils ended things with four runs in the bottom of the fifth.Saunders helped his own cause with a two-run single and a third run scored via an error. Caleb Keenan’s shot to deep left-center halted the game.

“Braylen is a quality player. We love to have him on our team,” Sliva said of the Wright State University recruit. “He’s a baseball player. He loves the game, as do all of these kids. It’s fun to coach a group like this that loves to play the game.”

Hoffman also had a trio of one-base raps that drove in two runs. Balgo had two singles and a pair of ribbies, while Saunders finished with three RBI.

Saunders went the distance on the hill, striking out five and walking two. He yielded three singles and worked out of a first-inning jam that Sliva said was huge. Saunders threw 87 pitches, of which 56 were strikes. He threw a first-pitch strike to 14 of 22 batters he faced.

“He fought through it (the first inning. That is a testament to him for being a bulldog.”

The game was the start of a busy week for Wheeling Park.

“Not the start we wanted for the week, but they (St. Clairsville) are a very good baseball team,” Wheeling Park head coach Steve Myers said. “We had a couple of opportunities but didn’t take advantage of them.”

The Patriots travel to Morgantown to meet the Mohigans today before heading to Glen Dale on Thursday to meet John Marshall. Then it’s back to Morgantown and Kendrick Family Ballpark at the Monongalia County Ballpark (WVU’s home field) to face Columbus Bishop Ready on Friday. Wheeling Park will play a split doubleheader Saturday against Spring Mills and Musselman at Dale Miller Field inside Mylan Park.

St. Clairsville, meanwhile, travels to Morristown today to face Union Local before hosting John Marshall on Friday.