Veteran hurler Geronimo Newton pitched six shutout innings to lead the Yankees to a 16-2 thumping of the A’s—and a spot in the Raphael Jackson AA Baseball League finals—at D.C. Canegata Ball Park on Sunday.

The regular-season champion Yankees completed a two-game sweep of the A’s in their best-of-three series and now await the winner of the series between the Cobras and Vikings, now deadlocked at one game apiece.

The Yankees picked up an unearned run in the top of the first, and two more in the top of the second on an RBI single by Khalid Gerard and a passed ball to lead 3-0. It would be all the runs Newton and the Yankees would need.

Wildness by the A’s pitching in the fourth helped to blow the game wide open as the Yankees erupted for eight runs to put the game out of reach. Four runs scored on bases-loaded walks, two on a two-run single by Dwayne Harvey and two more on passed balls, as the Yanks took an insurmountable 11-0 lead.

Newton was in total command of the game while he was on the mound, never allowing a runner past second base.

The A’s finally got on the board in the bottom of the eighth on a two-run triple by Charles Bollings against Yankees reliever Shaquille Joseph, but that would be all they would get.

The Yankees added two more runs in the top of the eight for a final score of 16-2.

Newton’s dominant performance earned him the victory, while Raydell Robinson got the loss.

Top batters for the winners were Gerard (3 for 3 with three RBIs), Harvey (3 for 3 with two RBIs), Guzman (3 for 4 with three RBIs) and Mackeel Rogers (3 for 3).

For the A’s, Bollings was 2 for 3 with two RBIs.