NATCHEZ &045; A small patch of gray poked out of the side of Craig Beesley’s green hat just in front of his right ear.

Whatever its origins, the section of hair surely did not sprout Friday night.

Cathedral began the postseason right where it left off during the regular season with a convincing 19-1 victory against Scott Central, as the Class 1A playoffs opened at Chester Willis Field.

The Green Wave (21-3) face Union, a 12-11 winner against Enterprise, at noon today. A win and the Region 7 champ won’t have to play again until the championship round Monday.

A loss and Cathedral comes back at 6 p.m. to play the Enterprise-Scott Central winner, which is at 3 p.m.

&uot;We just try and come up here loose and play like we know how to play,&uot; said Green Wave starter Garrett Jones, who combined with Zach Calhoun for a five-inning no-hitter. &uot;W e did what we needed to win the game tonight. I hope we can come out and be ready to play Union.&uot;

Jones, regularly the Green Wave’s starting shortstop, was brilliant, throwing 29 pitches to 10 batters, eight of which he began with first-pitch strikes.

The only black eye Cathedral needed to put a slab of meat on was its usually searing hitting. The Green Wave bats managed eight hits against Rebel pitcher Taylor Boswell, a true junk pitcher, as they took advantage of 10 Scott Central errors.

Te Riley’s 2 for 4 night led the charge, as he clobbered two doubles and knocked in a hat trick of RBIs.

&uot;We had a few walks that first inning, and I the second we began hitting better, but we still were way ahead of the off-speed stuff,&uot; Beesley said. &uot;Our bats never got into a rhythm. We’ve been working a lot on that in practice because we know teams are going to start pitching us that way.&uot;

After getting two runs of no hits in the bottom of the first, Cathedral dropped a 10-spot on the Rebels in the second courtesy of five hits and four errors.

Ninth-man Andrew Ellard brought the inning’s first runs in with two-run double the opposite way in right field for a 4-0 lead.

After courtesy runner Nick Anderson scored from third off a wild pitch, Michael Blain gave the Wave a half-dozen runs with his first of two sacrifice flies to bring Ellard in.

Cathedral continued to pour it on with an RBI-ground out from Riley and a Wyler Murray run-scoring single before Charlie Lane tripled to the right-center cap for a 9-0 cushion.

&uot;(The Green Wave) do everything real well. They can hit the ball, field well,&uot; Scott Central head coach Will Boswell said. &uot;We made entirely too many errors, I don’t care who we were playing. You can do that against a good baseball team like Cathedral.&uot;

After the onslaught, Jones took the mound to begin the third, and for the second consecutive inning retired the Rebels in order.

He finished with three strikeouts and allowed just one ball out of the infield, a fly out to center field off the bat of leadoff hitter Jonathan Cole in the first.