SAUGUS – It wasn’t exactly hitters’ kind of weather yesterday ? cold, windy and raw, even though the sign was shining.But it was a hitter’s day at Saugus High, especially for the St. Mary’s softball team.The Spartans were ruthless at the plate, pounding out 18 hits in a 20-8 victory over the Sachems, but they weren’t the only ones pounding on the ball.Saugus, despite lasting only six innings against the Spartans, wasn’t exactly silent up there. The Sachems got seven, including three home runs that were absolutely scorched to left field – two of them by Lauren Garchinsky and one by Megan Joyce.Click here for a photo gallery.”We hit the ball well all day,” said St. Mary’s coach Colleen Newbury. “If they moved their outfielders in, we hit them over their heads. If they moved them out, we dropped them in.”Saugus coach Bobbie Finnocchio was happy with her team’s offensive efforts, too. The pitching – for both sides, actually – left something to be desired.”I thought we hit it well,” Finnocchio said. “But our pitcher didn’t have her best day.”But, as Newbury noted, the Spartans dumped a lot of those hits into no-man’s land behind the infield.The top of the St. Mary’s order has the potential to be a pitcher’s nightmare, and that was plainly evident Monday. Leadoff hitter Christina Burri was on base the first four times she was up, on a walk and three hits. She scored four runs and knocked in two. Behind her in the order is Maria Nazzaro, and she was also on base four times – and scored four more runs.No. 3 hitter Ariel LaRosa also knocked in four runs. Just about everybody played ? and everybody hit.”We were able to get some of the people in there who don’t normally play – and they hit, too,” Newbury said. “So it was a good day in that respect.”Newbury also got to rest some players as well. Erin McAndrews, the starting catcher, sat out a couple of innings, giving way to Katie Collins. And Sam Kiley pitched the first three innings – by which time the Spartans had an 11-4 lead. Brianna Holmes pitched two innings and Vanessa LaFauci one.St. Mary’s, spurred mainly by the top of its order, jumped out to an 8-0 lead after two innings – four in each frame. Joyce got Saugus on the board in the second with a solo blast that went clear over left fielder Holmes’ head.After St. Mary’s tacked on three more runs in the third, Garchinsky hit the first of her two round-trippers on another line drive that sailed well over Holmes’ head.LaRosa and Burri each had a pair of RBI in a five-run St. Mary’s fourth inning that made the score 16-4, and Saugus put up single runs in the bottom of the fourth and fifth innings (including another Garchinsky homer).St. Mary’s added four more runs in the top of the sixth with mostly the substitutes playing, and though Saugus scored two in the bottom of the inning (courtesy of two more RBI by Garchinsky), it wasn’t enough to overcome a 12-run deficit, and the game was called due to the mercy rule.”They’re a good hitting team,” Finnocchio said of St. Mary’s. “I thought we hit their pitching well, though.”