CHULA — Tiftarea Academy advanced to the GISA baseball Class AAA elite eight Monday with a doubleheader sweep over visiting Holy Spirit Prep.

The Panthers needed only eight innings to outscore Holy Spirit 32-0. Game one went five innings and ended 10-0. The nightcap was even rougher. Already up 8-0 after two frames, Tiftarea sent 19 men to the plate — 16 different players — with 14 of them scoring for the 22-0 finale. The run rule meant the game ended in three innings.

Tiftarea will next host round two Friday. Their opponent will be either Westminster of Augusta or Trinity Christian of Dublin. Those squads split their first round games Monday.

“We hit a lot of balls hard,” said head coach Chance Benson. Over the course of the two contests, the Panthers hit 11 doubles and a triple. That was out of 29 total hits.

Holy Spirit retired the first man to bat in the third during the second game, but 10 straight reached before they reached the second out.

During that string, Casen Royal and Render Robbins were hit by pitches. Brandon Prudhomme drove in both with a single past third. Jayk Sailer, running for Prudhomme, and Nate Fortson came around on a double to the left field gap by Noah Copeland.

Copeland became the fifth run of the inning when singled in by Hayden Murphy, who scored on a single by the returning Hunter Hartsfield. Colby Grant’s base hit drove in Will Weeks and Sailer took care of Adam McKinney (courtesy running for Hartsfield) and Weeks with a hit to make the score 17-0.

By this point, Benson was searching the bench for every player in a uniform. Marshall Corkern hit an infield single for an RBI. McKinney had a hit, as did Logan Moore and Brock Hammond. Both Moore and Hammond drove in two runs each. Subs Copeland, Sailer and McKinney each scored twice in the third. Corkern and Moore scored once.

After a scoreless first inning, Tiftarea put up an eight-spot in the second.

A throwing error brought in Murphy, who had led off with a single. Casen Royal and Carter Stewart had RBI hits in back-to-back at-bars, scoring Grant and Royal, respectively. After walks filled the bases, Ben Matt gave the Panthers a 5-0 advantage on a sacrifice fly that scored Stewart.

Murphy doubled in Sailer and Fortson. He then trotted home on a double by Weeks.

Meanwhile, Holy Spirit had little luck with Prudhomme, who started game two.

Deacon Broda and Terrance Parker posted one-out first inning hits, but Prudhomme struck out the next two men. Prudhomme fanned four in two innings. Stewart struck out two in the third.

Benson said it was “a welcome sight” to see Hartsfield back in action. With the exception of a pinch running appearance on Senior Night, Hartsfield had not played since Mar. 22. “He’d been on me all day about wanting to play,” said Benson. “I told him I’d see how the first game went.”

PANTHERS 10, HOLY SPIRIT 0

Like the second game, Tiftarea was held scoreless in the first inning of the opener. Also like the second game, they posted runs in every inning after.

With Holy Spirit’s Ben Grantham on the hill, the Panthers got going in the second behind a leadoff single by Matt. Murphy drove him in with a double for the first run of the game.

Later in the inning, Will Matt doubled and Grant followed with a triple. Grant then came home on an error and Tiftarea was up 3-0.

Four more runs plated in the third, starting with Fortson, who was singled in by Weeks. Will Matt drove in Murphy with a sac fly. Royal drove in runs six and seven with a single, scoring Weeks and Grant.

Fortson doubled home Prudhomme in the fourth inning, driving the score to 8-0. It ended in the fifth on Prudhomme’s two-run double, Stewart scoring on the heels of Royal.

Murphy went the distance in the opener, striking out nine on 64 pitches.

“He threw well today,” said Benson.

Holy Spirit mustered their only baserunners in the fifth on singles by Jackson King and Jack Bohling.

Over the course of two games, Murphy went for 4-for-5 with three runs scored and four batted in. Prudhomme also knocked in four. Fifteen different Tiftarea players crossed home plate.