Several fielding miscues hampered Post 122 in its 10-0 six inning road loss to St. Charles at Blanchette Park. And the bats, well, they failed to show up as well. Warrenton mustered just two hits against St. Charles hurler Matt Strode, as he faced the minimum 18 batters. Other than the two singles the right-hander allowed, the only other batter to reach came on a walk. "It's playing baseball the way it should be played, and we didn't do that today," Manager Duane Swacker said. Indeed, Post 122's performance last Thursday was a far cry from its 4-1 start to the season. Getting thumped like this early in the season might be a blessing in disguise, noted Swacker. "You don't want them getting too cocky, but at the same time, it's baseball," he said. "It's going to happen. You have to realize that. There is no need to hang their head. This was a really good hitting team. We knew that coming in. You play against a good hitting team, they're hitting the ball and we weren't fielding it." Warrenton committed six errors in all and misplayed at least three other hits that should have led to outs. The shaky defensive play didn't back up starting pitcher Dominic Schwartz, who battled through the first four innings. By the time the right-hander exited, four of the eight runs were charged on six hits. He struck out five, walked one and hit two batters. Russell Nanney relieved in the fifth and threw the final 1 2/3 innings. Both runs scored against him were unearned. St. Charles took advantage of two errors in the bottom of the first to score three unearned runs. It later added four more in the second and another fielding miscue led to another run in the third. "Those things do snowball," Swacker said about the errors. "It's like hitting. Hitting is contagious and you hope that kind of stuff isn't contagious. It's the nature of baseball sometimes." Post 122's best chance to scratch across a run occurred in the top of the second inning when David Reininger led off with a single just out of reach of the third baseman. He stole second and moved to third when the throw wound up in center. He was left stranded at third. Reininger reached again on a walk in the fourth, while Alan Burbach had Warrenton's other hit with a single to left field in the fifth. But aggressiveness led both to be thrown out stealing second. "We hit the ball, we hit the ball hard," Swacker said. "How many plays did the third baseman make? They're hitting the curveball and pulling it when they ought to be going the other side of the field. Once again, you got to be thinking right side." Post 122 avoided the 10-run mercy rule in the fifth after Nanney left the bases loaded with consecutive strikeouts. St. Charles ended the game in the sixth when Burbach, the shortstop, caught a fly ball running into left field and was accidentally undercut by left fielder Tommie Dapp. Burbach was shaken up on the play and since the umpires failed to call time, the St. Charles runner tagged up from second and took third. He continued home for the game-ending run. Warrenton, which followed with three games over the next five days, plays at St. Peters this Friday at 8 p.m. at the Rec-Plex. Post 122's next home game is Sunday versus North at 6 p.m.