It was billed as two of the Southern Section’s baseball giants facing off Saturday night in the championship game of the Redondo Beach Baseball Tournament’s White Bracket.

Bishop Amat took all the drama out of this one early by scoring seven runs on six hits in the top of the first inning en route to an 11-1 victory over Lakewood at Redondo Union High School.

Danny Ittner was saddled with the loss after giving up eight runs in 2 2/3 innings.

Bishop Amat is ranked No. 4 in the state and No. 1 in the LA Times Top-25, and they looked the part behind Brandon McNitt’s six strong innings.

McNitt (7-0) gave up just one unearned run in the bottom of the first inning when Anthony Razo singled home Hunter Jones.

Jones had reached base when his ground ball was booted by the Amat third baseman. He advanced to third on a Jeff Yamaguchi single and then scored on Razo’s base hit.

McNitt struck out 10 Lancers batters, including striking out seven of the Lakewood’s starting nine at least once.

Nick Montoya pitched the seventh for Amat and struck out two more Lakewood batters to end the night with a very unusually high 12 strikeouts against Lakewood.

Jacob Worrell, J.P. Crawford, Razo and Yamaguchi accounted for the four Lakewood hits.

Ittner struck out Jay Anderson to start the game, but the next eight Amat batters reached base and before Lakewood even grabbed their bats, they saw Amat put up a 7-spot on the scoreboard, including a very rare sight.

With the bases loaded, Anderson, in his second at bat of the first inning, grounded to Crawford who started what Lakewood hoped to be a 6-4-3 double play, but Ryan Serrato scored from third on the play and Bernardo Zavala (who was on second) scored from second after never slowing down on the double-play attempt. There was no error on the play, it was just pure hustle from Zavala.

Rio Ruiz was the offensive hero for Amat, going 3-for-3 with two triples, three runs scored and an RBI.

If there was a bright spot for Lakewood, Matt Padilla, Nicholas Sanchez and Darren Gidley pitched well over the final 4 1/3 innings for the Lancers.

Lakewood’s final three games of the season are Moore League matchups with Jordan, Compton and Poly, respectively, but the Lancers will need to forget about this one and end the regular season on a high note.