PARIS — Blend the February-like wind gusts with the prodigious power alley at Gouin Athletic Complex, and Friday was an afternoon when experience and resounding velocity weren’t automatic prerequisites for getting hitters out.

Making only the second start of his varsity baseball career, Oxford Hills senior Logan Sanborn stymied Cony to the tune of six singles over the seven-inning route in a 7-2 KVAC victory.

Sanborn struck out six and walked two. He also helped himself by stabbing two comebackers to the mound and covering first base for another putout. Both Rams runs were unearned.

“It felt really good, especially for the first start of the year,” Sanborn said. “I hit my spots, got up in the count and threw a lot of first-pitch strikes.”

Oxford Hills coach Shane Slicer gave Sanborn a spot start against Mt. Ararat during his junior year.

The Vikings couldn’t have picked a better spot for an encore. Most fly balls were can-of-corn outs in the 40-degree weather. And home runs are rare as triple plays at Oxford Hills’ home field, where the sign in center field reads 485 feet.

“He just threw strikes. We talked about that and how with the weather it was going to be hard to beat that, especially in our park,” Slicer said. “Nothing was going to get hit out of here.”

Oxford Hills (3-1) helped its hurler by scratching out one run in the first inning, one in the second and two in the third to furnish a 4-0 lead.

Jordan Croteau, Ryan Godin and Nick Attaliades-Ryan plated the first three Oxford Hills runs on a fielder’s choice and two infield groundouts.

Dylan Cox’s two-out double made it 4-0 in the third. Cox clubbed another RBI double to punctuate a three-run fifth.

Cox credited a new rubber thumb guard with helping him rediscover his swing and halt an early-season slump.

“It’s good to get some hits. It hasn’t been going that well for me,” Cox said.

Dalton Rice was 3-for-3 for Oxford Hills, including a flare over the left side of the infield for a RBI single in the fifth. Rice scored the Vikings’ final run on a wild pitch.

Oxford Hills notched nine hits, all against Cony starter Ryan Edwards in his 4 2/3 innings of work. Nick Bowie (2-for-4, run scored, stolen base) joined Rice and Cox as repeat offenders.

“We just put the ball in play and they made a couple of mistakes,” Slicer said. “It hasn’t been this way for most of the season so far, but we got more of the cheap hits today. Dalton had three hits and a couple of those just dropped in the right place.”

The Vikings are missing middle infielder Matt Beauchesne, out with an ankle injury. Attaliades-Ryan anchored the retooled infield and backed up Sanborn with four big plays at shortstop.

Sanborn also saved himself with a bare-handed snag and a flip to Brandon Campbell for the third out of the sixth, escaping a bases-loaded jam.

Cony scored one run in the fourth. Chandler Shostak walked, raced all the way to third on an errant pickoff attempt and crossed the plate on a Ben Lucas groundout.

An Oxford Hills error and singles by Chandler Shostak, Jordan Ellis and Chase Shostak produced a run in the sixth. Sanborn retired the side on nine pitches in the seventh to close it out.

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