One team had runners on base in every inning, got hits from six different players and did not commit an error.
The other team threatened to score just twice, had just one hit the first six innings and racked up four errors in the contest.
Guess which one came out victorious?
The Battle Spartans had only one inning worth noting Monday night, but they made the most of it and scratched out a 1-0 win against the Helias Crusaders at the American Legion Sports Complex.
The loss dropped Helias, ranked No. 1 in Class 4 in the preseason state rankings, to 1-2 on the young season.
"It's only three games, but the things we're not getting done, it could be your fourth game or your 24th game, those are fundamentals," Helias coach Chris Wyrick said.
The Crusaders only struck out four times in the game, but took tons of curveballs for strikes.
"We were looking for the curveball, then (Battle pitcher Lane Threlkeld) would throw a 74 mph fastball down the middle and we'd take it or get jammed," Wyrick said. "You can't hit that way. You've got to sit fastball and adjust to the curveball. You can't sit offspeed and then try to hit the fastball, it doesn't work at any level, no matter how hard or soft the guy is throwing. And that's what we did.
"Until these guys decide enough's enough, it's going to keep being like this."
Clayton Winter was the tough-luck loser for Helias, as he allowed just four hits while not walking a batter and striking out seven in a complete-game effort.
"Any time you give one run on four hits in seven innings, you probably ought to win the baseball game," Wyrick said. "His offense didn't do anything to support him at all."
The only run came in the top of the seventh when Battle's first three batters got hits.
The first was a hard-hit ball up the middle, while the second was a sacrifice bunt that turned into a single when the Helias third baseman was late to charge the ball. Then the third was a ball that would have been a routine groundball out to the shortstop, but it slipped through the hole vacated by the shortstop on a wheel play.
Winter then got a strikeout before a fielder's choice gave the Spartans the only run they would need.
Helias, meanwhile, stranded nine runners in the contest, including six in scoring position. One of those came in the bottom of the seventh, when Winter led off with an infield single and was sacrificed to second by Alex Werner, only to get stranded there. The final out came on a strikeout looking.
"We couldn't get the job done with guys in scoring position," Wyrick said. "We just turned passive. We took too many strikes and I don't understand it. ... We say in between innings, "We've got to attack, attack, attack,' and we go up there and don't attack."
The Crusaders' best chance to score came in the third inning. No. 9 hitter Werner led off with the first of his two singles in the game, stole second and went to third on a groundout. But he was then thrown out after a rundown when a missed sign resulted in no bunt being put down on a squeeze play.
Helias (1-2) plays Wednesday at Kirksville.