JONESVILLE, La. &045; Too often at this level all it takes is one big inning to have the other team crying for mercy.

But this time it might not have been that much. Vidalia’s Minor League All-Stars were still limping a bit after Saturday’s opening-round loss and injuries to two players, and their pitching couldn’t hold up in a 20-7 loss to Jonesville Monday.

The loss eliminated Vidalia, and Jonesville moves on to play either Winnsboro or Ferriday at 8 p.m. today.

&uot;Pitching. Pitching,&uot; Vidalia head coach Charles Anderson said. &uot;A lot of these kids are 9 years old. We’re a pretty young team, and we’ll battle back. You definitely hope with so many 9-year-olds we could. I hope they’ll be back and go a little farther. We’ve got good kids. They’re not quitters. Even in that last inning they got some runs.&uot;

Vidalia finished with a rally but couldn’t answer Catahoula’s penchant for putting the ball in play and putting pressure on Vidalia’s defense to make the plays. Catahoula came up with 10 runs in the third inning thanks to six Vidalia errors and put up seven in the fifth inning to put the game away.

Vidalia finished the game with 10 errors, and four pitchers combined to walk 12 batters.

&uot;We hit the ball a little bit but not like we could have,&uot; Catahoula head coach Mike McGuffee said. &uot;If Vidalia hadn’t lost some of their pitchers to injuries, it probably would have been a different story. The boys played well enough to win, and that’s all you can ask for. Vidalia has a better team than what it showed. They’ve had some hard luck.&uot;

If the third inning wasn’t enough, the fifth inning was the final blow as Catahoula’s seven runs cracked the 20-run barrier and put the lead at 20-4 heading into Vidalia’s half of the fifth. Credit Vidalia for finishing with a bang &045; some of its hardest-hit balls came in that final at-bat &045; as B.J. White and Dillon Gautreau scored on an error and William Anderson’s single scored Chris Temple.

All that damage came off Slater Smith, who got a strikeout and a grounder back to the mound to end the game.

&uot;Most of the time it is,&uot; McGuffee said of the big innings. &uot;You’ve got a team beat in one inning, and that’s it. It’s hard to come back from that. That’s what did it for us. That’s what happened to South Franklin the other night against Winnsboro. When Vidalia got a little wild, we got some timely hits and came with that one big inning.&uot;

Catahoula took advantage of two errors in that fifth along with four walks to break the game open, but some timely hits in there helped seal the deal. Curt McGuffee’s infield single scored Kailyn Curry for the second run, and Will Hawthorne’s single scored Smith and Matthew Humphries before a throwing error on the play allowed Jeffrey Spann to score and put Hawthorne at third base.

Catahoula loaded the bases before Vidalia brought in Gautreau to pitch, and he walked McGuffee to bring home Ashton Holland. Gautreau then got Smith to ground out to first to end the inning.

&uot;When we played Ferriday, we had Tyler Davis, who was pretty much our ace coming in,&uot; Charles Anderson said. &uot;We let him go into the third inning, and that burnt him for this game. It just came down to pitching and hitting. We didn’t execute.&uot;

Catahoula did its damage in the third when it sent 15 batters to the plate and took advantage of six Vidalia errors. Trevor Vault had the big hit as he turned a single into a three-run home run that scored Spann and Hawthorne for a 12-1 lead, and Holland came around to score on a grounder for the final run.

Catahoula loaded the bases with one out, but Vidalia got out of the inning when Austin Chauvin fielded a grounder at short, tagged out the baserunner at second and stepped on second base for an unassisted double play.

&uot;I think they got down,&uot; Charles Anderson said. &uot;Once they got down, it was hard to bounce back. It kind of snowballed, but they’re 9-year-olds and 10-year-olds. They’ll bounce back. We’ll be back next year.&uot;

Catahoula came with three pitchers in the contest to keep anyone from getting burnt for today’s game against Winnsboro.

Vidalia got a run in the second off Curry and tacked on three against Hawthorne in the third when Elliott Britt and Briar Hamilton scored on an error and Chauvin singled in Gautreau.

&uot;We’ve still got everybody,&uot; Mike McGuffee said. &uot;It’ll probably take every one of them tomorrow. We’ve got four or five 9-year-olds that came up from coach-pitch last year, but we’ve got a pretty good group of 10-year-olds.&uot;