There won’t be many wasted words or lingering laughs on the business trip from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris to Saint Joseph’s College in Standish this morning.

From the departure at 9 a.m. to batting practice at 10 to infield at 11 to the national anthem at noon, the Vikings can set their watch to just about everything that’s associated with today’s Class A baseball final against Biddeford.

On game day, that structure and seriousness is how nine seniors like it.

Any other time, well, the third Oxford Hills team to reach a state championship game in the last nine years doesn’t fit into anyone’s neat little box.

“When we were indoors the first week of the season, they had the bats and balls out and set up a miniature golf course in the hallway,” assistant coach Joe Oufiero said. “Ethan Davidson, our first baseman, he was the hole.”

There’s the pepper game that left D.J. Croy dodging rocks. Or the post-game trip to a Chinese buffet that made any competitive eating exhibition seem tame.

“We all love each other,” said second baseman Andrew Keniston. “There’s good chemistry. It’s the first time I’ve really been part of a team like that.”

Cool and goofy away from baseball, Oxford Hills (17-2) is as hot as it gets on the diamond.

Since a 3-5 start to the 2009 campaign, Oxford Hills is 32-4 including playoff and preseason games.

The Vikings avenged their only two losses of the current campaign in impressive fashion. Oxford Hills returned the favor to Cony twice, capped by a wild 10-9 win in the regional semifinals, before belting Brewer 10-3 in the Eastern championship.

“We didn’t start last season the way we wanted, but then we won eight games in a row,” said Matt Verrier, Oxford Hills’ senior catcher and John Winkin Award finalist. “Even though we had an early exit in the playoffs, it got us off on the right foot for this year.”

Oxford Hills enters the final with a lineup that is getting on base as consistently, top-to-bottom, as it has all season. The top four of Nate Dubois, Andrew Keniston, Verrier and Cody Hadley reached in all eight appearances the first two innings against Brewer.

Freshman right fielder Jordan Croteau has been a run producer throughout the playoffs. Davidson, Croy, Erik Henderson and Kyle Farrar all are getting in their licks.

Best of all for the Vikings, everyone on the staff is available to pitch today.

Henderson (6-0) or Croy likely will get the call for Oxford Hills. Henderson shut out Brunswick in the quarterfinals, then hurled a 101-pitch complete game Tuesday against Brewer.

“We haven’t made a decision on it. We have to see how Erik recovers,” Oxford Hills coach Shane Slicer said. “But everybody’s healthy. (Henderson) doesn’t get too rattled. He’s high-strung but in the right way.”

Biddeford (12-7) also has the option of going with its ace on three days’ rest.

Lefthander Trevor Fleurent went the eight-inning distance in a 4-2 victory over Westbrook for the Western A title.

Fleurent, winner of this year’s Travis Roy Award as the top hockey player in the state on the heels of a Class A ice title for the Tigers, also went the first nine innings of an 11-inning ouster of No. 2 Scarborough in the quarterfinals. Biddeford scored seven runs in the top of the 11th that day.

He’s also the leadoff hitter for Biddeford, whose 3-4-5 sluggers Tyler Audie, Tyler Parker and Chris Jones have provided pop throughout the playoffs.

Audie would take the hill if Fleurent is unable to go or requires an early hook.

Biddeford needed a win over Bonny Eagle on the final day of the regular season just to make the eight-team playoffs. Their run to states was the Hollywood ending to a Southern Maine Activities Association season in which every team lost at least six games.

“We don’t know a lot about them,“ Slicer said. “I don’t think it’s smart to start chasing SMAA games and scouting teams at this point. It’s not football or basketball. It’s baseball. We know they’re on a roll, and we are too.”

So Oxford Hills will go about the business of worrying only about itself. Which is, of course, an interesting choice of words regarding this bunch.

“Sometimes like the other day (before the Brewer game) I look at them and they’re so relaxed that I think, jeez, are they ready to play? But that’s the way they are. They seem to feed off that,” Slicer said. “We don’t have to say anything. They’re ready to go.”

Biddeford won its last state title in 1984. Oxford Hills defeated Westbrook in the 2005 final after losing to Sanford three years earlier.

Keniston watched his brother star for that 2005 squad. He was just then uniting with his current teammates after years of the small towns competing against one another in little league.

“I used to play against Matt (Verrier). My dad would put me in the outfield and have me try to catch the line drives he would hit,” Keniston said.

By the time six of them joined the varsity team as a sophomores, today’s trip to the shores of Sebago Lake was considered a realistic goal.

“As a group all along they were touted as being pretty good,” Slicer said. “The biggest worry for me was they had a tough football season, and basketball didn’t go as well as they hoped. You hope they don’t start second-guessing themselves as athletes.”

Who knows? Maybe they straightened it out over an impromptu round of mini golf.

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