Johnny Thomas dove to his right and corralled the ball into his glove. Without thinking, he rose up off the ground and threw a laser to first base.

It didn’t necessarily end the game for Brother Martin, but in a way, it did. With two outs, Jesuit had nary the chance to mount a comeback.

Two batters later, Anthony Stovall struck out, an apropos end to the day for the Blue Jays.

Brother Martin picked up its second win over Jesuit this season, this time 6-2 at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium two weeks after a 3-1 victory, and moved to 7-0 in District 10-5A and 19-7 on the year.

When the Crusaders play Rummel on Tuesday, they’ll have a chance to put loads of distance in the race for the district championship.

“I wouldn’t say easy street, but it really sets the table that we would have to fall apart,” Brother Martin head coach Mark Wisniewski said. “The way these guys are playing, they’re just doing a great job. We’re getting the pitching. We’re getting the hitting, timely hitting. We’re doing a good job on the bases putting pressure on people.

“And defense epitomizes Johnny making that play in the seventh, laying out for a ball, coming up and throwing him out.”

Jesuit (15-10, 4-3) didn’t help itself at all, committing four errors that led to two Crusaders’ runs. A wild pitch also scored a Brother Martin runner.

“They definitely helped us out,” Wisniewski said. “But we put pressure on them and made them make plays. If they don’t make plays, we take advantage of it.”

“It’s just baseball,” Jesuit coach Tim Parenton said. “You’ve got to play the game. They played it and we didn’t. They made a couple (errors) early and gave us chances. But their pitcher comes up with a big pitch against one of our hitters to get out of their inning and we didn’t.”

Brother Martin 1-0 first-inning lead when catcher Kyle Maldonado drove in Brandon Bartholomew on a slow roller to second.

Jesuit tied the game at 1 in the top of the third. Cory Guidry reached on a lead-off single and scored on Mason Katz’s single up the middle.

But Brother Martin took a 4-1 lead in the bottom half of the inning and never looked back.

Blue Jays’ starter Stephen Luckinovich gave up a single to Braeden Ford and a double to Kevin Berry. Ford came home on a wild pitch and Kyle Maldonado walked. Berry scored on Corey Thomas’ single to left, then Maldonado scored on an error by the first-baseman.

Jesuit cut the lead to 4-2 in the fourth, but Brother Martin added two more in the fifth to put the game out of reach.

Berry picked up the win from the mound, tossing five innings and giving up two runs on five hits. He struck out seven, none bigger than the two to get out of bases loaded jams in the second and fourth.

“I didn’t really have my best stuff,” said Berry, who also went 2-for-3 from the plate with two doubles. “I kept getting behind the batters. One-and-0. Two-and-0. I had to battle up there. I was getting frustrated.”

As frustrated as he was, he still came through.

“He got himself in trouble and he got himself out of trouble,” Wisniewski said. “He did a real good job. He made some quality pitches when we needed it most.”

Jesuit came into the game having won five straight. Now that roll is gone. It’ll get another chance at Brother Martin Saturday after playing St. Augustine on Friday.

But now the Blue Jays need lots of help if their going to stay in contention for the district championship. For now, Brother Martin owns the keys to the title.

“They’re 7-0 for a reason,” Parenton said. “They’ve got a nice pitching staff and they do a nice job of rotating their guys in.

“We just have to rise to the occasion and play with those teams every day.”