AUBURN – Like a short-timer pocketing office supplies after giving his two-week notice, St. Dom’s doesn’t intend to walk away from Western Maine Conference baseball empty-handed this spring.

Eleven stolen bases in Wednesday’s first two innings left Old Orchard Beach in a severe budget crunch. The resulting baker’s dozen on the scoreboard was more than enough cache to convince the Saints to play it straight for the remainder of a 17-0 shellacking.

It was one-sided enough to leave one spectator of the Mountain Valley Conference-bound Saints literally snoring in his lawn chair. But if it’s OK with everybody, St. Dom’s will reserve its excitement for late May through mid-June, when the Class C monolith surely will contend for league, regional and state titles.

“We’ll take what we see is available, and it was obvious early that they were having a hard time with that,” said St. Dom’s coach Bob Blackman, whose Saints parlayed a parade of singles, steals, wild pitches, walks and balks into five runs in the first inning and eight more in the second.

St. Dom’s (2-0) still harbors haunting memories of its own mercy-rule loss to OOB in its WMC opener last April.

This was the Saints’ third consecutive shutout victory over the Seagulls (0-3) since that sleepy start in 2008.

“We’re more prepared this year than we were last year,” said senior Greg LaBonte.

LaBonte was one of two repeat hitters for the Saints, who slapped 13 hits during their four sojourns to the plate over the abbreviated route.

He also combined with Joe Bryant on a one-hit shutout. LaBonte carried a no-hitter into the fourth, when OOB designated hitter John Regis roped a two-out single in the hole between first and second base.

Thanks to an error to start the inning, Regis’ breakthrough moved an OOB runner into scoring position for only the second time all afternoon. Alex Parker subsequently stabbed a hot smash to shortstop and threw out Zach Descoteaux to preserve the shutout.

LaBonte struck out five. Bryant fanned two of the three hitters he faced in a perfect fifth.

“Coach has been telling me to hit my spots more,” LaBonte said. “Throw my curve ball better, throw my slider better and more consistent. We’ve worked on that a lot. They seemed confused at the plate.”

St. Dom’s caused even more commotion and upheaval at the dish and on the base paths.

By the end of the second inning, everybody in the Saints’ lineup had scored at least one run. Six different players registered a hit in that span. Only one starter didn’t steal a base.

“We have a lot of fast guys. We try to get into the pitcher’s head, and it works out quite a bit,” said Casey Parker, who led off the first inning with a bloop single and the second with a walk, eventually scampering home each time. “That’s how it’s been since I got to St. Dom’s.”

The Saints stole third base on three different occasions in the first inning. The mounting distractions led OOB starter Ron Friedel to balk three times and issue five walks in the second frame before Dan Bonneau relieved.

“This is always a competitive type of game. That’s their season when they can beat us,” Blackman said. “That’s what happened last year. They came out of the gate, and we came out flat. They kind of paid the price for it after that.”

Kurt Johnson was 2-for-3 with two RBIs for St. Dom’s. LaBonte drove in three runs. Shayne Curtis and Aaron Allen plated two apiece.