EASTHAMPTON — Everything was working for the Easthampton Post 224 Senior American Legion team on Thursday evening at Nonotuck Park.

Whether Post 224 played stellar defense, pitched lights out, knocked the cover off the ball at the plate or went the old school route to execute small ball – Easthampton had it all on display against Longmeadow with the playoffs fast approaching.

A combined one-hitter on the mound, a three-run first frame and nine hits offensively helped boost Post 224 to a 10-0 route of Longmeadow in six innings.

“They set the tone nice and early with the bats, and we got after it from there,” Easthampton head coach Erik Fickett said. “We haven’t been as aggressive as we’ve needed to be, but today I felt like we were extremely aggressive at the plate, and it showed.”

Connor Capshaw – who threw a no-hitter in an earlier start this season – tossed three perfect innings, surrendering no runs, no walks and no hits on four strikeouts. Shiv Patel replaced him and went on to fan three batters in his two innings of work, the only blemish on his pitching line being an infield single in the fourth inning.

Then came on Mikey Thompson, the hard-throwing righty who breezed through the Longmeadow lineup with three strikeouts in his one inning on the bump.

When Post 224’s arms are dealing, they’ve proven to be a tough team to beat.

“We got everything that we needed out of those guys today,” Fickett said. “We started one of our aces, Connor, and he’s thrown a no-hitter for one of our wins. He did his job. Next was Shiv, who doesn’t have a whole lot of innings this year. He threw a bunch of strikes and was dealing real good. Mikey doesn’t pitch a whole lot, but asked if he could get some innings. I said, ‘Sure, why not?’ And he pitched well.”

Behind Capshaw, Patel and Thompson was a defense Fickett didn’t think would perform the way it did prior to the game. He said they looked unprepared when they took warm-ups, but a meeting behind the dugout helped them re-focus and lock in.

Earlier in the year, Easthampton’s defense struggled to make the routine plays. But on Thursday Post 224 made no errors and even flashed the leather for some web-gem efforts on the defensive side of the diamond.

“Our infield-outfield prior to the game didn’t go well at all,” Fickett said. “So we went out back, talked about what we needed to clean up, and the guys acknowledged it. They said they were gonna be perfect and they matched their words. You can’t beat that.”

Brendan Capshaw ripped one of his three singles in the first to wake Easthampton’s offense up right away. Connor Capshaw drew a walk to put two guys on in a blink. Back-to-back singles from Thompson and Zach Phakos brought them in, then Thompson scored on an error to make it 3-0.

Post 224’s small ball started in the fourth when Cian Callahan hit a slow-roller to third that scored Anthony Incampo (triple) as they traded a run for an out. In the fifth, Easthampton pushed two more runs across, both coming via sacrifice flies off the bats of Phakos (scoring Will Hogan) and Christian D’Onofrio (scoring Thompson). That made it 6-0 in favor of Post 224 after five.

“Every single part of what we did today was routine baseball,” Fickett said. “We had runners in scoring position and got base hits or hit sac flies, and we found ways to score runs.”

Thompson, who reached base in all four plate appearances, blasted his second triple of the night in the bottom of the sixth to score the Capshaw brothers and cap off a four-run frame that gave Easthampton the run rule victory.

Post 224 (3-11) has one more regular season contest Friday evening (5:45 p.m.) at North Adams Post 125 before postseason play begins on Sunday. Fickett admits the Easthampton regular season hasn’t been what they had hoped for, but also recognizes that can all change with a deep playoff run.

“This win brings the morale up high, and I think that will help us dramatically through playoffs,” Fickett said. “We can beat anybody in this league, it’s just a matter if we come ready to play.”

Northampton Post 28 11, Monson Post 241 0 (5) — Northampton picked up right where it left off against Monson, resuming a suspended contest ahead 8-0 and adding three more runs to secure a run-rule victory in five innings at Legion Field in Palmer on Thursday night.

The game picked up with two outs and a runner on first in the top of the first. Post 28 added two more runs in the third and another in the fifth.

Elijah Rubinstein earned the win on the mound after tossing three innings and allowing only two hits. Andrew Gagne and James Lavallee then came on to toss a scoreless and hit-less frame apiece.

At the plate, Rubinstein and Jamie Fowler each cracked two hits, scored twice and drove in a run for Northampton, which is now 11-5 this season. Griffin Smiarowski added two RBIs in the win.

Northampton Post 28 closes out their regular season on Friday night at Arcanum Field against Belchertown at 5:45 p.m. before shifting their attention to Sunday’s playoffs.