Hamilton has sent its top two starters out twice thus far in the young baseball season and they've performed the way coach Mike Woods anticipated they would.

On Friday it was the second turn in the rotation for Brock Selvidge and the left-hander responded with five shutout innings in guiding the Huskies to a 5-0 triumph over Liberty in a 6A non-region game at Hamilton.

The defending 6A champions improved to 5-0 with the victory while sending Liberty to its first loss. The Lions are 5-1. Hamilton's wins Thursday and Friday were the most important ones - power-ranking wins.

Selvidge, a junior, followed up sophomore right-hander Logan Saloman's second win on Thursday, a 4-1 decision on the road at Sandra Day O'Connor. 

Selvidge had to work a little harder the first three innings as his defense was sloppy in committing three errors. Hamilton opened the scoring in the second inning taking a 1-0 on back-to-back triples by Shane Anderson and Roch Cholowsky. 

A three-run uprising iby Hamilton in the bottom of the third gave Selvidge a 4-0 cushion. Will Maxey and Cholowsky drove in runs to highlight the inning. The other scored on the second of four errors commited by Liberty. That cushion was immediately put to the test in the top of the fourth.

Selvidge yielded a single to Liberty's Jace Derosier and double to Kaden Schiefelbein to begin the inning, putting the Lions a hit away from slicing the lead in half. Selvidge bore down and got out of the scrape inducing an infield pop up, strikeout and comebacker.

"One of our errors caused Brock to throw nine more pitches," Woods said. "He got outs when he had to. Picked up our defense and really competed out there."

The line for Selvidge in his five innings was five hits allowed, no walks and four strikeouts. Senior Ryan Figueroa tossed the final two innings and was spot on. Figueroa retired all six batters he faced and fanned four.

"He missed last year with a bad shoulder, but he's locked in so far," Woods said. 

Hamilton added its final run in the fourth using a walk from ninth-place hitter Prince Deboskie an single from leadoff hitter Isaiah Adams. An outfield error aided the final run for the Huskies.

Liberty left eight runners on base with runners in scoring position in four of the five innings. Kyle Lewis was the lone Libert player with multiple hits. He was 2 for 3.