"Everybody was coming back saying nothing special, but he was throwing something special because he sure shut us down," said Carlyle, Warrenton Senior Legion manager. "We didn't have our bats with us today." Kavanagh opened the Ninth District meeting with six hitless innings and eventually teamed up with reliever Eric Tiefenthaler on a one-hit shutout in Troy's 12-0 victory over host Post 122. What was such a well-played contest Monday evening turned ugly for Warrenton, as Troy took advantage of three errors and control problems in the ninth inning to erupt for 10 late runs. "That last inning we fell apart," said third baseman Adam Nickelson, who broke up the no-hit bid with a two-out single in the seventh. "We couldn't pull it together." It was a sour ending for Post 122, which hoped to continue its recent momentum after winning five in a row. One game after topping the .500 level for the first time since the season's opening weekend, Warrenton (8-8) took one step back. Post 122 was scheduled to face West on Wednesday. It plays a two-game set with North this weekend, hosting the Knights on Saturday at noon and hitting the road Sunday for an 8:30 p.m. start. Warrenton wasted another solid outing by right-hander Adam Ragsdale. The team leader in wins with three, Ragsdale used his reliance on his curveball to keep the Troy hitters guessing. After Troy opened with two runs in the top of the first -ða RBI triple by Derek Watson was followed by a run-scoring groundout by Tiefenthaler - Ragsdale settled in nicely. He followed with seven scoreless innings as he retired 21 of the next 25 batters he faced. "Adam threw a hell of a game like he always does," Carlyle said. Ragsdale ran into trouble in the top of the ninth, though, as five of the first six hitters reached base. He exited in favor of Dalton Koch after the score ballooned to 5-0. But Koch never found the strike zone. He walked three and hit two of the nine batters he faced. All of a sudden staring at a 12-0 deficit, Nick Mack was summoned to get the final out of the inning. Meanwhile, Kavanagh was just a bit better, as he constantly worked out of minor jams due to his own control problems. The right-hander issued seven walks, but struck out 10. He stranded eight overall, allowing just one base runner to reach third. Post 122' s Jared Sitze began the bottom of the third with a walk and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Nickelson and a groundout by Darren Carlyle. But an opportunity to cut Troy's two-run lead in half passed by as Kavanagh struck out Mike Govednik looking. Tiefenthaler relieved Kavanagh in the eighth. His only blemish was a walk as he recorded the final six outs. "Sometimes we hit the ball hard, but it doesn't fall for us," Nickelson said. "It goes right to the fielders. Other games like today, we don't hit the ball at all. "We have to keep our heads up." Carlyle acknowledged some of the hitting woes center around a failure to take advantage of a hitter's count and being too defensive at the plate. "Maybe a couple of them didn't keep track (of the count)," he said. "Some of the swings were pretty inconsistent, pretty much like, 'What are you doing?' But yeah, we didn't come armed with our bats tonight."