What Webb Little started two weeks earlier, Sam Little finished – namely, a regular-season sweep by the Christian Brothers Academy baseball team over its neighbors from Jamesville-DeWitt.

Though it wouldn’t really get even unless it beat the Red Rams with stakes similar to last season’s Section III Class A final, the Brothers were quite glad to take the positive results this time around.

And in the middle of it all was the Little brothers. Webb had pitched all nine innings, hit a home run and scored the game-winner on a bases-loaded walk in a 5-4 decision on April 30.

In last Thursday’s rematch, it was Sam Little slamming the ball and stealing the spotlight to help the Brothers overcome a rough start and roar past the Red Rams 14-6.

Emmett Dunn got the start this time for CBA, and he got into trouble. J-D tagged him for three runs in the first inning and two runs in the second to go up, 5-0. Just as they had done in the first meeting, Jake Binder and Xander Ferlenda both went deep, Binder adding a double as Dylan McGee and Matt Cappelletti also drove in runs.

Getting his second straight start against the Brothers, Binder saw that five-run lead vanish as CBA’s bats took over, getting four runs in the third and a run in the fourth to tie it, 5-5, and then unloading for five runs in the fifth and four runs in the sixth.

And it was Sam Little at the head of the Brothers’ hit parade. Twice, Little went deep for home runs, and he also doubled, singled and drew a walk, leading to a career-best six RBIs. Nate Burns drove in two runs, with Nick Capozzi, Aaron Simone and Camillo Spinoso also driving in runs.

Given all of that support, Dunn settled down and lasted five innings, recording five strikeouts, before Webb Little, now in a relief role, struck out five in his two innings to put J-D away.

Neither J-D nor CBA stumbled in the last tune-ups before the rematch.

After a game at Liverpool got cut short by weather last Monday, the Brothers hosted Mexico a day later and unloaded in a 16-3 romp over the Tigers.

Steadily, CBA gained a 7-0 lead before a nine-run fifth inning put it away. Webb Little hit a home run and finished with five RBIs, while James McClimans drove in two runs.

Sam Little, Tom Benz, Camillo Spinoso, Brian McCann and Dan Robinson had one RBI apiece as Nate Burns and Emmett Dunn each scored two runs and Spinoso scored three times. Given all kinds of run support, pitcher James McGlynn went five shutout innings and only allowed one hit before Tommy Pirro took over and gave up Mexico’s lone runs in the seventh inning.

J-D, meanwhile, had a more difficult time at Fulton, but still won 11-7, erasing a 3-0 deficit with five runs in the third inning and, after the Red Raiders tied it, 5-5, in the bottom of the third, it used a run in the fifth inning and five runs in the sixth to move ahead for good.

Casey Kretsch, with three hits and four RBIs, led the attack. Xander Ferlenda and Matt Cappelletti each drove in two runs, with Jake Binder and Brady Wing adding single RBIs. Kyle Naugle did a strong job in his four innings of relief after replacing starter Mike Sinopoli.

The loss to CBA didn’t have a lingering effect on J-D, for when it resumed action Saturday in a non-league game against Indian River, the Red Rams roared past the Warriors 17-5.

A seven-run first inning set the tone, and J-d didn’t let up until it had 14 hits on the board and took advantage of five IR errors. Binder and Cappelletti both hit home runs, with Binder adding a double and piling up five RBIs as Wing doubled and drove in three runs. Cappelletti finished with three runs scored and two RBIs, J-D improving to 12-5 on the season.

CBA didn’t have a letdown, either, going to the Proctor Classic in Utica and beating New Hartford 5-3, scoring all of its runs in the first inning, with Benz, Simone, Camillo Spinoso, Dom Spinoso and Webb Little each recording run-scoring hits.

Dom Spinoso gave CBA’s more heralded pitchers a much-needed break, tossing a complete game as he held the Spartans to seven hits, only walking one and earning three strikeouts. This led the Brothers into Sunday’s final against Utica Proctor.