AUGUSTA — If the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School baseball team hasn’t seen it all in this year’s Eastern Class A playoffs — never mind the four years most of them have shone on the diamond — the Vikings feel like they’ve seen enough.

“We tried to approach it with the mindset that Cony was the toughest team we were going to face,” Vikings pitcher Erik Henderson said. “We weren’t going to leave here without a championship.”

No. 3 Oxford Hills already survived Brunswick in a pitchers’ duel and Cony in yet another epic between those Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference rivals. By the time Nate Dubois’ bunt died in the grass at Morton Field for an infield single to start Tuesday’s title game, winning again felt like a mere formality.

Dubois scored the first of two first-inning runs and was one of six Vikings to cross the plate in the second, sending Oxford Hills on its way to a 10-3 rout of No. 4 Brewer.

Oxford Hills (17-2) will face the Western Maine champion — Westbrook or Biddeford — in the Class A final at noon Saturday on the campus of Saint Joseph’s College. The Vikings defeated Westbrook to win their last state title in 2005.

“This has been the dream since seventh grade,” said Dubois, who led a steady parade of Vikings from home to first.

Dubois, Andrew Keniston, Matt Verrier and Cody Hadley, all seniors and the first four hitters in Oxford Hills’ lineup, were a perfect 8-for-8 getting on base through the first two innings.

Consecutive singles by Keniston, Verrier, Hadley, freshman Jordan Croteau and Ethan Davidson provided Oxford Hills and ace Henderson with an 8-1 lead in the second.

Verrier chalked up his third RBI of the game with a two-out double in the fourth. Croteau drove home Hadley with a single in the sixth, marking the second straight playoff game in which the Vikings scored double digits on a field that has become a second home over the years.

“We played a couple of barnburners here against Cony, and we’ve been here in the American Legion tournament a few times,” said Oxford Hills coach Shane Slicer. “Just coming out and hitting the baseball was important, because being up 8-1 really relaxes you. Brewer wasn’t able to do a lot of the small-ball things they like to do and we like to do.”

Hadley’s two-run single followed Dubois’ bunt single and back-to-back walks by Keniston and Verrier in the first.

Brewer (14-5) answered with a run on singles by Tyler Desjardins, Nick Moore and Colby Small in the second. That was quickly drowned out when Oxford Hills sent 10 men to the plate in the bottom of the inning, chasing starter Kyle McLain.

Henderson surrendered only single unearned runs in the fifth and seventh before striking out Joey Bartol with a fastball on his 101st pitch to end it. The senior right-hander struck out three, walked three and gave up nine singles, improving to 6-0.

Eric White was the lone repeat hitter for Brewer. The Witches defeated top-seeded and previously unbeaten Bangor to reach the final.

“They did pretty much all the things we did Saturday, except they scored more runs,” Brewer coach Dana Corey said. “They beat us straight-up today. I’m proud that they’re going to represent us.”

Senior reliever Jordan Smith kept the game from getting farther out of hand.

After Oxford Hills ran into an out on a failed squeeze play to slow the bleeding in the second, Smith allowed only two additional runs and four hits in 4 1/3 innings.

“We believed we were going to come out and win by the mercy rule today,” Henderson said.

Oxford Hills balanced out its two errors with a flurry of defensive gems.

Croteau made a stellar sliding catch in foul ground to retire Jordan Richards for the first out of the fourth inning. Davidson made a diving, backhanded stab at first and trotted over to the bag himself, erasing Brandon Briggs in the seventh.

Henderson helped himself out of a jam in unorthodox fashion in the fifth.

With the bases loaded and one out, Bartol bounced back to the mound. Henderson had a short throw to Verrier at the plate to start a likely 1-2-3 double play. He hesitated, however, before turning and firing to Hadley at shortstop.

That throw beat White by a step, and Hadley’s fling to Davidson took care of Bartol by the same margin.

“We lost a couple of games early in the year,” said Slicer. “But then the hitting started to come around, the pitching staff got secure. And the defense was always there, but now it’s phenomenal.”

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