NATCHEZ &8212; There was no need to worry about Charlie Lane. Cathedral&8217;s steadiest bat at the plate turned out to just have an off game Thursday.

Which, it seems right now, accounts for everyone in the Cathedral lineup making solid contact.

Not that there was any reason to worry, but Lane was disgusted after getting only a triple in his last at-bat among the team&8217;s 14 hits in Thursday&8217;s 14-4 win over Noxapater. And the player who strikes out the least on the team &8212; only six times in 54 at-bats &8212; fanned on three pitches for the third out of the third inning with two runners in scoring position.

A day later, he looked like his old self with two hits, two runs scored and a triple that set the stage for Patrick McDonough&8217;s game-ending home run in a 12-2 win over Enterprise in five innings.

The win puts the Green Wave in the tournament final at 4 p.m. today against the winner of the 1 p.m. game between Ethel and Enterprise.

&8220;That&8217;s part of baseball,&8221; Lane said of Thursday night. &8220;I was mad that I wasn&8217;t doing well, but I got over it. We&8217;ve been kind of down (this season), but we&8217;ve been on track the past few games. We&8217;re getting better every game. We&8217;ll be ready.&8221;

Lane helped the Green Wave put up another 14-hit performance, and everyone else continued to hit the ball perhaps better than any point during the regular season. McDonough, who had four hits against Noxapater, finished the game with a blast over the fence in left for his second hit and third and fourth run batted in of the game.

If anything, this tournament may have given the Cathedral team an identity &8212; one that can still play the small ball it did during the season but also like those CHS teams of the past. The Green Wave didn&8217;t strike out against Enterprise and did so only once against Noxapater.

&8220;It looks like we&8217;re finally getting confident at the plate,&8221; Cathedral head coach Craig Beesley said. &8220;We&8217;re being disciplined and swinging at good pitches. Some of our guys are still swinging at bad pitches, but overall we&8217;re showing more discipline.

&8220;Charlie was disappointed for not having good showing in the last game, but he made up for it today. That triple in the fifth was huge. He did it last night (in the last inning), and today it was a triple and a home run.&8221;

Lane and McDonough ended it in the fifth and fueled a rally in the second and third innings for the Green Wave. A six-run inning that featured consecutive bunt singles broke it open in the second, and Cathedral followed with a run in the third and fourth innings for a 10-2 lead heading into the fifth.

It furthered Enterprise&8217;s frustration with Cathedral &8212; the two losses at Chester Willis were by a combined score of 26-3 with the Green Wave taking an 8-7 win at Enterprise.

&8220;We got ourselves in a hole, and we wanted to lay down when we got eight or nine down,&8221; Enterprise head coach Seth Lofton said. &8220;They got some hits. Everybody got down. But the beauty of the playoffs is you don&8217;t have time to dwell on it. You&8217;ve got to come back and get ready for tomorrow.&8221;

It was those bunts that may have turned things around for the Green Wave in the second inning. Up against No. 1 starter Cory Everett, Braxton Fondren drew a walk to lead off before Alex Middleton and Jesse Morrison reached on bunt singles to load the bases.

Both were slow rollers to first. And both times someone picked up the ball with no one covering the bag. Preston Edwards then doubled to right to score Fondren and Middleton for a 4-2 lead.

&8220;They were both in the right spots on the field,&8221; Beesley said. &8220;I thought it kind of got us going. I can&8217;t talk enough about the two bunts. When Middleton came back around in that inning, I wanted him to bunt again and let him hit away. He grounded into a double play, and I was upset with myself.&8221;

It set the stage for Edward&8217;s double, a Lane groundout that scored a run, a McDonough single that scored a run, a Kole Junkin RBI single and an error on a ball hit by Fondren to score another run.

Enterprise got Middleton in a 1-2-3 double play to end it.

&8220;Nobody was where they were supposed to be,&8221; Lofton said. &8220;You could probably say that (it was a turning point). We put ourselves in good position offensively. We just never could get the break. They picked them up when they had runners on base.&8221;

Enterprise got a run in the first and another in the second to tie the score at 2-2. Matt Floyd doubled in Jonathan Beeson in the first, and Alex Powell scored on an error in the second.