LEWISTON – Up is a good thing when it comes to the stock market and your zipper. Not in baseball.

Which is why in Tuesday’s Eastern Class A prelim with rival Lewiston, Edward Little pitcher Adam Lutz treated the strike zone like your doctor tells you to treat your cholesterol.

Lutz kept the ball down and kept the eighth-seeded Blue Devils off the scoreboard, firing a three-hit shutout to lead the Red Eddies to an 8-0 win at Franklin Pasture.

No. 9 EL (10-7) will face top-seeded Brewer in Thursday’s quarterfinal. Lewiston closes its season at 10-7.

Mike Muise led the Eddies’ 13-hit attack by going 3-for-4 with two RBI’s and a run scored. Lutz, Kyle Bussiere and Eric Prue added two hits apiece.

“The kids were just dialed in 100 percent,” said Eddies’ coach Scott Annear, whose team split with Lewiston during the regular season. “They were ready to go from the minute we got here and they wanted nothing more than to play good baseball for themselves. They knew what the stakes were and were ready to play.”

The Eddies jumped on Lewiston starter Eddie West, who had beaten them 8-4 back on May 27, for three runs each in the third and fourth innings. The three runs in the third were unearned due to a two-out bobble on a Prue grounder to third. Devin Flynn singled home Bussiere to break the scoreless tie, then Flynn and Muise executed a hit-and-run to bring home Prue. Flynn scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-0.

Lewiston’s defense temporarily thwarted EL in the fourth, as Alex Wong made a perfect throw from center to cut down Josh Mains at the plate on a Bussiere single. The Eddies kept doing two-out damage, though, as Corey LaRue clubbed a two-run triple into the right-center field gap and Prue ripped West’s next pitch into the same spot for a triple of his own that scored LaRue with their sixth run.

Lutz, meanwhile, cruised through three perfect innings before giving up an infield single to Mike Fontaine to lead off the fourth. Prue and Muise teamed up to turn a pretty double play, however, so Lutz (six strikeouts, 0 walks) faced the minimum through five innings.

“I just wanted to stay focused and try to make them hit grounders because I know my defense behind me can do anything,” Lutz said. “They made plays, and when (Lewiston) hit the ball I didn’t let it get to me or get frustrated.”

The Devils never got a runner to second. Of the 15 outs that weren’t strikeouts, 11 came on the ground.

“He kept his fastball down and his slider was real, real tough,” Lewiston coach Todd Cifelli said.

“I tried to throw as many breaking balls as I could, tried to get them off balance, and then come at them with a fastball or a circle-change,” Lutz said.

The Eddies added two in the seventh on RBI singles by Muise and Mains. They dedicated the victory to Muise, whose mother Diane, a well-known Gospel singer in the area, passed away on Monday.

“We played with a lot of emotion,” Annear said. “The kids all wanted to rally behind Mike.”

“I wanted to win this for him,” Lutz said. “I did everything I could to win this for him.”

After the game, Cifelli presented Muise with the game ball. His team will be losing just three seniors off its playoff lineup.