NATCHEZ — While one local team’s season ended this week, three other teams had their thoughts on the playoffs.

Cathedral School, Trinity Episcopal and Natchez High School all had baseball teams advance to the postseason this season.

Trinity started its postseason off on the right foot with a dominating performance over Claiborne Academy last week.

The Saints had wins of 24-5 and 14-1 to cruise through to the second round.

Trinity coach Mitch Ashmore said he was glad that his team didn’t have too much trouble because he has a couple of players (Kent King and Givonni Dent) banged up, and he hopes to get them rested before the second round.

The Saints will face Riverfield in the second round of the playoffs. Game one will be at Huntington Field 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Natchez High faced Petal in the first round of the MHSAA Class 6A playoffs. The Bulldogs did not have as much success as Trinity, and they lost the first two games by scores of 3-1 and 6-2, to be eliminated.

“We had a good season, but the season didn’t pan out to our expectations,” Natchez baseball coach Charlie Williams said.

“We didn’t expect to lose 10 games. We started slumping at the wrong time of the year, toward the end of the season. Our hitting and fielding started to suffer.”

“We were playing better-than-average ball until the last six games of the season.”

The Bulldogs finished 14-10 on the season.

Cathedral has not started their playoff run yet. The Green Wave earned a first round bye by winning their District’s regular season title.

Cathedral will face the winner of Mount Olive and South Leake Friday, coach Craig Beesley said.

Cathedral beat Franklin County Monday April 18 and now faces a 10-day layoff between games, Beesley said.

“You don’t like to have that long off between games,” Beesley said. “Hopefully we can rest up our pitchers and be rested and ready Friday.”

Cathedral finished the regular season at 14-5 and 5-1 in the district.

Vidalia’s season ended Thursday night with a 6-1 loss to Bunkie.

The Vikings went 1-1 last week and finished with a 6-17 record and fell short of the postseason, coach Tim Herndon said.

“Defensively it took a while to figure out the best situation,” Herndon said. “We weren’t real strong to start with and it took a while to discover who could (play defense) and would couldn’t.”

Herndon hopes this season’s struggles will help improve the team for next season, he said.

“We made some improvements, at least we know what everybody can do now. We got some experience with our young kids so we can groom some infielders (which is where we struggled this year),” Herndon said.