The three-time defending Intermountain League champion Bayfield High School baseball team put the rest of the league on notice Saturday.

The Wolverines are gunning for No. 4 in a row.

They eviscerated Centauri 27-0 and 11-6 in a doubleheader Saturday in La Jara.

Kelton McCoy crushed the ball with three home runs, including a grand slam, and 11 total runs batted in on the day.

Both Matthew Knickerbocker and Zane Phelps both hit two home runs each in the doubleheader.

Knickerbocker hit one from each side of the plate.

“We hit the ball pretty well,” BHS head coach Jonathon Qualls said. “It helps that they have a little bit of a short field.”

BHS (9-2, 2-0 IML) scored 12 runs in the second inning of the first game, six in the fourth, four in the fifth and five in the sixth.

The Wolverines racked up 17 hits and took advantage of three Centauri (6-7, 2-2 IML) errors.

The Falcons only managed two hits in Game 1, both by sophomore Christopher Martin.

Angelo Valdez took the loss for Centauri.

He allowed 16 hits and 18 earned runs.

BHS launched seven home runs in the first game.

Knickerbocker threw three shutout innings to pick up the win in Game 1, and McCoy threw the final two innings.

The Wolverines’ bats stayed hot in the second game.

They strung together 15 hits on Martin, who pitched Game 2, and hit another three homers.

Martin starred for Centauri at the plate in the second game, too, driving in four runs on two hits with a homer of his own.

BHS scored four runs in the first inning and four in the third.

Centauri picked up all six of its runs in the fifth inning with the help of a grand slam but couldn’t complete a comeback.

McCoy and Phelps hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning to reclaim any momentum BHS lost and close the game out.

“They might have saved the game for us,” Qualls said. “It’s such a short field that it takes a couple lucky hits or a couple good hits, and the whole game changes.”

Brody McGhehey picked up the win for BHS, throwing five innings.

The Wolverines now have won seven games in a row and scored double-digit runs in six of those wins.

BHS next will host another league doubleheader against Alamosa starting at 11 a.m. Saturday at BHS.

“It seems like they’ve put some good games together and some that are not so good,” Qualls said of the Mean Moose. “I expect they’ll play their best against us. I’m hoping we can come out with a similar effort to (Saturday).”

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