Cascade relief pitcher Chase Nunley beats Eagleville's Justin Moore to the bag for the first out of the final inning. (T-G Photo by Danny Parker) [Click to enlarge]

MURFREESBORO -- If Cascade coach Chris Parker had a checklist of things he wanted to a accomplish in his team's District 9-A tournament opener against Eagleville, he needed a rubber stamp to note all missions accomplished.

The top-seeded Champions (23-5) required but five innings to dispatch Eagleville 12-1 thanks to a dominant mound performance from Josh Brown and a trio of four-run frames.

"This is the way we preached to them and practiced all week long that we wanted to come out and have a good showing," Parker said. "Our first game of the tournament is always big. We beat a good pitcher and beat a good team.

"We played error-free and put the ball in play when we had to. If we keep doing those little things, hopefully it will pay off for us."

Cascade moves onto tonight's winners' bracket final against tournament host and No. 2 seed Middle Tennessee Christian at 8.

MoMo Stewart, Corey Mullins, Nick Batts and Kyle Clanton all reached to lead off the bottom of the first for the third-ranked Champs and all scored to put Eagleville ace pitcher James Blackwell on the mat.

"We did a good job of staying on the ball and doing all the little things right we needed to do to score runs," said Parker, giving much of the credit to assistant coach Scott Comstock.

Clanton started the third-inning rally with a one-out double. Justin Bryant and Brown followed with singles to key the four-run outburst.

Corey Mullins helped keep his team's big foot on the throats of the Eagles with a solo home run to center field to open up the fourth. Batts and Clanton followed with doubles. Matt Bain nailed their 10th and final hit with a two-run triple.

Brown (9-0) was his usual dominant self, twirling one-hit ball over four scoreless frames. Ten of his 12 recorded outs were via strikeout and he walked but two. Chase Nunley walked a pair and gave up one hit in the fifth.