Having gone 11 innings the first time around, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool baseball teams may have expected a similar duel on a wind-swept Tuesday afternoon at the Gillette Road complex – but that’s not what took place.

Instead, the Northstars got yet another pitching gem from left-handed ace Steven Theetge and, with a trio of home runs highlighting a pair of mid-game outbursts at the plate, completed a regular-season sweep of the Warriors by an 8-0 margin.

These two rivals had, indeed, required 11 innings in their initial encounter April 25 before C-NS pulled it out, 4-2. But Theetge didn’t pitch on that day, nor did Bobby Zywicki, the right-hander who took the mound as Liverpool’s starter.

As it turned out, the Warriors’ lone chance to get in front came in the top of the first inning. Michael Wright led off with a single, and was forced out at second on Jonah Harder’s grounder. Harder stole second, and with two out, Jake Pieklik reached on an infield hit.

Like Harder, Pieklik ran on new C-NS catcher Mike Krick, who a week earlier had replaced Dylan Frawley after Frawley was lost for the season with a leg injury, and stole second base. So with two runners in scoring position, Anthony Sgroi had a chance to put his team in front – but Theetge struck him out.

And that began a stretch of 16 consecutive batters that Theetge retired. Twelve of those were strikeouts, including nine in a row from the third through sixth innings.

Meanwhile, Zywicki kept it 0-0 until the bottom of the third, when C-NS sophomore Connor Stanton drilled one that rode the wind over the left-field fence for the first home run of his varsity career.

Not stopping there, the Northstars tacked on a second run with A.J. Nesci’s walk, a sacrifice bunt and Jake McArdell’s RBI single. Then Theetge matched Stanton in going deep, his two-run shot making it 4-0 at the end of the third inning.

An inning later, more damage was done as Christian LaLomia’s double brought home Stanton and Nesci, and McArdell immediately followed with his fifth round-tripper of the season, a two-run blast to right.

Dan Peck replaced Zywicki at that point, and blanked C-NS the rest of the way, but it didn’t matter. Brad Hamilton worked the seventh inning for the Northstars, keeping alive a streak where he has not allowed an earned run in two seasons.

A day later, C-NS visited Baldwinsville to make up for last Monday’s weather postponement (that same weather had also cut short Liverpool’s game against CBA), and made a big comeback from a terrible start to beat the Bees 9-6.

Theetge had out-pitched Cody Kaestle, 1-0, in their first encounter April 20. Sam Spadafore got the start here, but the Bees jumped all over him in the bottom of the first, batting around and scoring five times to grab a 5-0 lead.

Spadafore settled down and blanked B’ville until the bottom of the fifth. By that point, the Northstars had gone in front, getting two runs in the third inning and chasing Kaestle with five runs in the top of the fifth.

With the score 7-6 in the sixth inning, the Northstars again scored twice, this time against reliever Matt Borek, and Hamilton tossed two scoreless innings after relieving Spadafore, the Bees managing just four hits overall. McArdell and LaLomia both drove in a pair of runs, with Nesci scoring three times as he, along with Theetge, Krick and Mike Copani, got one RBI apiece.

A third game in three days didn’t faze C-NS, either, as it rallied past Fayetteville-Manlius 6-4. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the third, the Northstars scored twice in that frame and added single runs in the fourth and fifth innings that proved decisive.

Krick contributed a pair of RBIs as McArdell, with three hits, joined Stanton, Nesci and Stephen Kires in the RBI column, while LaLomia scored twice. Luke Dziados pitched six solid innings, blanking F-M after the second and striking out five before Hamilton saved it again.

Liverpool, meanwhile, was off until Friday, when it got back into the win column with a 6-0 shutout over Central Square, where Ryan Stott threw a two-hitter, striking out nine.

This game was 0-0 for five innings before the Warriors scored all six of its runs in the bottom of the sixth. Rick Sisto’s two-run double was the key blow as Dillan Wilkinson, Rocco Leone and Michael Wright also had RBIs in that rally.