WINNSBORO, La. &045; Those walk-a-thons can sure be a double-edged sword.

The runs pile up, tbe players keep moving up a bag and your team is in the lead. Good situation, right?

Not when it almost lulls your club to sleep.

Vidalia’s Major League All-Stars were on the receiving end of 15 walks Sunday but couldn’t come up with the big hit that could really broken the game open against South Franklin. Instead they settled on the walks &045; four came with the bases loaded &045; and some scattered singles for a 19-6 win.

The win puts the Vidalia All-Stars in the winners’ bracket final against Catahoula at 8 p.m. today.

&uot;I can tell you I’m not a pleased coach,&uot; Vidalia head coach Tam Winston said. &uot;I’m happy we won, but I’m not pleased. We had a few miscues, but I don’t think we had any particular player that stood out. It was a team effort. I’m sure Catahoula will be a big test for us tomorrow night.&uot;

The walks were enough to make South Franklin sick afterward, those couple with a two key errors that kept Vidalia rallies alive in two separate innings. Credit South Franklin for rallying for four runs in the fourth to trim the lead to 15-6 and avoid the 10-run rule, but Vidalia’s four in the sixth squashed all its momentum.

South Franklin went down in order in its last at-bat.

&uot;They didn’t beat us &045; we gave it to them,&uot; South Franklin head coach Kevin Bass said. &uot;That’s all I have to say.&uot;

Vidalia led at one point 15-2 when South Franklin pitchers walked five in the second and five more in the third. All Vidalia had to do was keep the lead at 10 to end the game early, but South Franklin jumped on Vidalia starter Cory Wadlington a bit to keep the game going.

Brian Moroni had the big blow of the inning with a three-run blast that scored Walker Magee and Tyler Ezell, both of whom reached base on walks. Ethan Bass then reached on a two-base error that prompted Winston to pull Wadlington for Corey Williams, and Bass later came around to score on a wild pitch to trim the lead to 15-6.

&uot;We had them down, and we kind of went brain dead for a while,&uot; Winston said. &uot;I don’t know. The walks got them back in the game. We walked a few, they hit the home run, and they’re back in the ball game. Cory was doing a wonderful job. I don’t know if he just got tired.&uot;

That’s when the tide turned a bit as the Vidalia couldn’t put a runner in scoring position in both the fourth and the fifth with South Franklin holding some momentum. But after Williams retired South Franklin’s four through six batters in order in the fifth, Vidalia got a break in the sixth to hold on for good.

Matt Souderes led off with an infield single, and Jamale Davis entered as a pinch-runner. The speedy Davis stole second and third before scoring on a wild pitch in a move that seemed to relax everyone with Vidalia.

Devin Barnes singled in Jake Winston, Williams’ groundout scored Dee Garrison and Barnes scored on an infield error that would have been the third out of the inning.

&uot;We had a few key hits, but it’s hard to be a hitter when the ball is all over the place,&uot; Tam Winston said. &uot;We had the bases loaded and had one key hit. That’s just kind of how the game went. Then we can’t finish it off in the fifth, and we’re burning pitchers we don’t need to.

&uot;In the first inning we had the bases loaded and scored one run, and they jumped right back on us with a 2-1 lead. It looked like it was going to be a dogfight, but they couldn’t find the plate.&uot;

South Franklin’s first three batters of the game jumped on Wadlington with two doubles and a single for a 2-1 lead. Magee’s double scored Greg Parks and Kyle Davis after Vidalia got a run in the first on Williams’ single that scored Jake Winston.

But Vidalia scored seven in the second and seven in the third for the 13-run lead.