WATERFORD — It took visiting Parkersburg South three innings to get warmed up with its bats here Wednesday afternoon, but when the Patriots did, they put up 13 runs in three innings to down Waterford 13-2 in six innings. South is now 12-2 on the season and plays at Brooke today before taking on Wheeling Park for the OVAC championship Friday, while Waterford, now 11-5, entertains TVC foe Wahama at 5 p.m. today. Both of Wednesday’s starters on the mound, Drew Cochran for South and Noah Huffman for Waterford, zipped through the first three frames in scoreless fashion. In the Patriot fourth, Nick Yoho’s infield single plated the inital run of the game, followed by Cochran hitting a low line drive off Huffman’s foot that got through the infield into center field with two runs scoring on the play for a 3-0 South lead. The top of the fifth inning saw South tack on five runs on an error, Bryce Eagle single, Reece Fletcher double, another Yoho single and a wild pitch to up its advantage to 8-0. In the last of the fifth, the host Wildcats got on the board with two tallies on a passed ball and Russell Young double. But South piled up five more runs in its sixth on an Eagle single, balk, Chase Freshour single, error and Ben Merarchek’s bases-loaded walk to up its margin to 13-2. Then in the bottom of the sixth, Cochran finished off a complete-game three-hittter by wriggling off a two-out bases-loaded situation with a ground-ball out. “Drew (Cochran) pitched a nice little ball game today,” said South head coach Todd Burner. “He was probably in the mid-80s in pitches, and that’s pretty good for six innings of play. And as a team, Burner stressed that “we’re pretty much all right when we play the whole game like we did today.” For Waterford head coach Doug Huffman, “on a few of those plays today, we were just not making routine plays,” he said. “That’s a lot of what’s hurting us right now. Their second baseman (Blake McMullen) made three excellent plays in the field. To me, what leads to these big innings is not just making those big plays, but not making the average play right at you.”