ROTTERDAM — Mohonasen baseball and postseason success.

It’s been quite some time since you saw those words lumped together in the same sentence.

“We’ve been waiting for this all year. This is exactly what we wanted to do,” Mohonasen senior C.J. Fonda said after the Mighty Warriors defeated Glens Falls, 11-0, in a rain-shortened Section II Class A quarterfinal game Saturday. “Hopefully we’ll stay on a roll and keep this thing going.”

Robert Tedesco and the Mohonasen offense had it going early and never relented in the team’s first sectional victory since 1992. Tedesco took a one-hitter into the fifth inning, Fonda belted a two-run home run, and Pat Herrington and Scott Lindsay ripped two-run doubles in an impressive opener for the Suburban Council White Division champs at Memorial Park.

“It’s been a total team effort this year,” said Mohonasen coach Jim Huggins. “Every game someone different has come through. That’s another great thing about this season.”

Mohonasen (No. 2 seed, 14-5) is hoping to make this fine season an exceptional one, needing two more wins to do so. Mohonasen will play either Scotia-Glenville (No. 3, 14-9) or Lansingburgh (No. 6, 11-10) in a Wednesday night semifinal at Shuttleworth Park in Amsterdam.

“I don’t know the last time we won a sectional game, but I heard it’s been 26 years since Mohonasen won a sectional title,” said Tedesco, a junior righty who struck out 12, walked two and gave up only a fourth-inning single in his 42⁄3 innings. “There are a lot of seniors on this team, and before they move on, they want to do something Mohonasen hasn’t done in a while.”

“We’re playing well right now. The kids are working hard, playing together and having some fun,” Huggins said after his Mighty Warriors scored three runs in the first and seven in the fourth to put the contest out of reach; it was called in the bottom of the sixth due to rain. “Now we’ve got to keep the ball rolling.”

Tedesco had the ball moving and the Indians (No. 7, 8-17) missing in running his personal record to 6-1. He walked the first and last batters he faced, and lost his no-hit bid when Sam Caruso stroked an opposite-field, two-out single to left in the fourth inning.

“My slider has been there all year, and coach believes in it,” Tedesco said. “I felt it early on. I was throwing strikes, which is what coach said I had to do. I was on today.”

Tedesco walked Caruso to start the game, and after he recorded two strikeouts, Herrington threw out Caruso on an attempted steal. Tedesco struck out the next eight batters he faced before Caruso singled, and fanned two more in the fifth.

Tedesco departed after walking Jim Richards, and David Hondro finished up the combined one-hitter, getting two strikeouts himself while walking one.

“He’s a stud,” Fonda said of Tedesco. “When he’s on he’s on, and no one can touch him.”

“His mechanics were probably the best I’ve seen. Not perfect, but the best I’ve seen,” Huggins said. “Ever since the Shaker game [a 4-2 loss], he’s barred down a little bit more.”

Fonda gave Tedesco a lead to work with when he smacked his two-run homer in the first after Caruso had walked Herrington. Tedesco reached on an error, and after stealing second and third, he raced home on Alex Massaroni’s sacrifice fly.

“All season long we’ve kept progressing with the bats,” said Fonda, a Binghamton-bound shortstop who blasted his second homer of the season, the first coming Monday in a 12-6 win over Albany. “Before we’d score a couple of runs here and there. Now we’re at our prime.”

Herrington doubled and scored on a third-inning groundout by Ben Gatchell before Mohonasen sent 11 batters to the plate in its seven-run, fourth-inning outburst. Herrington and Lindsay highlighted the frame

with their two-run doubles, and Massaroni hit an RBI single.

“I think the kids were more excited than nervous. The jist I got this morning was they couldn’t wait to play,” said Huggins, who was recently named the Suburban Council co-Coach of the Year with Shenendehowa’s Jim Carrese.

“I think they did a great job of keeping their composure.”

Mohonasen’s last postseason win came 16 years ago, over Scotia-Glenville in a Class B quarterfinal game.

The Mighty Warriors made their last sectional appearance in 2005 and dropped an 11-6 Class A quarterfinal to Scotia-Glenville.

Scotia-Glenville and Lansingburgh had their game suspended in the fourth inning Saturday, and are set to resume Monday.

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Mohonasen 301 70x — 11 7 1

Caruso, Kelly (4) and Brown; Tedesco, Hondro (5) and Herrington, DeMarco (5)