CHICOPEE - And the Saints go marching on.

St. Mary pitcher Matt Czach held the Frontier Regional baseball team's bats quiet for most of Saturday afternoon and the Saints scored 10 times over the final three innings to earn a 10-5 win in the Western Massachusetts Division 3 Tournament championship game at Szot Park.

With the win, No. 8-seeded St. Mary (21-3) earned its first baseball championship in 30 years. The Saints won their only other baseball title in 1979 when they defeated Athol 13-4.

The score was just as lopsided in this one as in their first win, as St. Mary took a 10-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning before the Red Hawks (13-11) put five runs on the board.

"Our bats just never got going," said Frontier shortstop Gary Grandonico. "The bottom of the seventh when you are down 10-0 isn't exactly an opportune time to score runs. We just didn't bring the same kind of intensity that we brought the last couple of games."

The Red Hawks came into the game winners of seven straight, including their final four regular-season games to qualify for the tournament at 10-10. Seventh-seeded Frontier then reeled off three straight playoff wins to get back to the final for the second straight year.

But after taking a 15-6 win over Smith Academy in last year's title game, the defending champions were unable to get after Czach early and had to settle for runner-up.

The Saints move on to play central Massachusetts champion West Boylston in the state tournament semifinals at a time, date and placed to be announced.

"They deserved it today and we wish them luck in their next game," Red Hawks coach Aaron Campbell said of St. Mary. "The kids played hard (this season).

"To be 6-10 with four games to play and to get to this game, I can't ask anymore from our kids other than trying to squeak one out today," he added. "I think the last game (8-3 semifinal win over Hopkins) took a lot out of these kids and we just didn't have enough today."

While neither team scored through the first four innings, the Saints loaded the bases in the second inning on three walks but failed to score as Frontier starter Robbie Sjodahl worked out of the jam when he got Keith Hunter to line out to left field to end the inning.

St. Mary got its first hit of the game in the third inning and then had three men reach in the fourth, but a pickoff play at second base and a pop to second helped Sjodahl to again escape unscathed.

The Red Hawks' hurler finally ran out of luck in the fifth inning when Treavor Laraway (four hits, three runs scored, two stolen bases, two RBIs) led off for the Saints with a single and moved up on a sacrifice by Bob Benoit.

Sam Farnsworth (two runs, two RBIs) then drove in the game's first run with the first of his three singles on the day, and Noah Parker followed with a single to put runners on the corners. Anthony Collins made it 2-0 with a sacrifice fly before Sjodahl got out of the inning by striking out Jim McConkey (three hits) for the final out.

After the Red Hawks went down in order in the bottom of the fifth, St. Mary scored three more runs in the sixth courtesy of five hits. One scored on a wild pitch, Benoit drove in another with a single and Czach helped his own cause with a sacrifice fly to left.

The Saints added to their total with five in the seventh inning and those runs proved to be big, because the Red Hawks finally broke through in their final at bats.

Three pinch-hitters in a row reached for Frontier as Jaren Lutenegger singled, Keith Spencer doubled and Dylan Farrick drove them both in with a single. After throwing one ball to Stephen Wojtowicz, Czach was pulled in favor of Holden Canty, who ended up walking Wojtowicz before giving up two more runs when Chris Williams and Anthony Laurenitis each reached on errors.

Canty finished the win by inducing Kirk Gross into grounding out to the pitcher, and the St. Mary players celebrated by mobbing the mound.

Czach allowed five hits through six innings before giving up the three in the seventh but the sophomore pitcher was dominant throughout, striking out three and walking three.

"The nerves are always there, especially playing a team of this caliber," Czach said. "They're a great team. They proved that year in and year out, so yeah, there were nerves. But I worked through it and my guys were able to score some runs for me."

Sjodahl allowed 11 hits and five walks, while striking out five.

Grandonico doubled, and Wojtowicz, Williams, Laurenitis and Gross each had hits before the seventh inning.

It was the final high school game for Frontier seniors Grandonico, Williams, Laurenitis, Wojtowicz, Sjodahl and Ashton Lutenegger.