It has appeared as though the McIntosh Chiefs have been wielding oversized clubs, not bats, in their last two games.

McIntosh put on an impressive hitting display Friday, pounding out 14 hits in a 20-0 three-inning victory over Fayette County in a Region 2-AAAA game at Jimmie D. Allen Field in Fayetteville.

The Chiefs have had 24 hits over their last two games; they had 10 Monday in a 20-10 loss to Starr’s Mill.

McIntosh had five players with at least two hits against Fayette: David Pauley (4-for-4, four RBI), Andrew Austin (2-for-2, four RBI), Jake Tanis (2-for-2, one RBI), Cameron Rich (2-for-2) and Eric Weiss (2-for-3, three RBI).

“We’ve been hitting the ball all year long,” McIntosh coach Toby Black said. “We knew coming in that we would hit the ball. ... We can score.”

Black feels the addition of an indoor hitting facility, which was completed on McIntosh’s campus in January, has helped his team’s hitting immensely.

“Oh, yeah, it has helped,” Black said of the facility. “Just being able to run 45 guys in a full practice and not have to only do your hitting and short cages outside, it helps. Now we can have 12 infielders on the field working on their defense for hours while having all the outfielders in the cage inside. The hitting facility has paid off.”

Fayette used seven pitchers, but none could cool off McIntosh’s red-hot bats.

Barack Little started on the mound for Fayette, but Tanis knocked him out of the game three batters into the first inning with a line drive that smashed off Little’s glove hand. Little left the game with what was diagnosed by Fayette’s coaching staff as a dislocated right pinkie finger.

It was an ominous sign for Fayette’s pitching staff, which took a beating all night.

McIntosh immediately roughed up Fayette’s relief pitching, with Austin hitting a two-run, standup double to center field and Pauley hitting an RBI single to the same location for a 3-0 lead.

The Chiefs added five more runs in the second inning, and all but one run was scored on an extra-base hit: Weiss hit a two-run homer over the right-field wall, Tanis lined an RBI double down the left-field line, and Pauley ripped an RBI double off the left-field wall.

Austin scored the final run of the inning on a bases-loaded walk.

The Chiefs batted around in the third, scoring 12 runs to bring the mercy rule into effect. They scored six runs before Fayette was able to record the inning’s first out.

Austin started the run-scoring bonanza with a two-run, standup double to right field, and Pauley followed with an RBI double off the right-field wall.

An RBI single by Dwight Smith, an RBI single by Weiss, a two-run double by Pauley and an RBI single by Futoshi Murasawa accounted for the rest of McIntosh’s run-scoring hits in the inning.

Marcus Burk struck out two and allowed one hit — a leadoff single in the seventh by Micah Smith — in three shutout innings to record the victory for the Chiefs.