PEABODY – Peabody head coach Mark Bettencourt’s smile said it all after his team’s 9-0 win over Lynn English on Thursday at Bezemes Field.Less than 24 hours after being shockingly shut out by Salem, the Tanners responded with a nearly-perfect performance in all facets of the game.Peabody pounded out 10 hits and scored at least once in each of the first four innings while the duo of James Noftle and Pat Dumas teamed to hold the Bulldogs to just a Roberto Reyes single in the second inning. The performance was something that Bettencourt was glad to see.”The big thing was how we’d respond to yesterday and they answered that question for me,” Bettencourt said. “I feel good that my team is back.”Not everything was perfect in this one for Peabody, though it came pretty close. The Tanner defense committed three errors, providing a small blemish on a dominant performance.The Bulldogs (3-2) found themselves in an early hole and never could dig back out, but coach Joe Caponigro was still happy with how his club played in its fifth road game in eight days.”We hit the ball better (Thursday) than we have been,” Caponigro said. “That’s a team that can swing it from one to nine. But we’re 3-2 after playing five road games. That’s not all bad.”Peabody (3-2) got all the offense it needed in the bottom of the first.Danny Mello and Josh Band opened the game with back-to-back singles against English starter Pat Cullen. With one out, Noftle drew a walk to load the bases.Second baseman Gary Girolamo then poked a double just inside the third-base bag, bringing Mello and Band around to give Peabody a 2-0 lead.Noftle worked a perfect first for Peabody before allowing a Reyes single to begin the second. But that would be it for the English offense as the senior righty worked out of the second and began to cruise from there.Peabody increased its lead in the second as a leadoff walk by Cullen to Andy Zamansky proved costly. Tyler Hopping sacrificed him to second and Mello drove home the run with a double to the right-field fence.English had a chance to cut into the lead in the third as Jonathan Surrette reached third, but Noftle got Jonathan Santalises to fly out to center to end the inning.The Tanners knocked Cullen from the game in the bottom of the inning. A leadoff triple by Kevin Skop was followed by a Noftle RBI single that spelled the end of Cullen’s outing.Sam Hill took over the pitching duties and struck out Girolamo and Patrick Yeo, but Marc Linehan slapped a 2-out single up the middle to make it 5-0, Tanners.Peabody would then put the game out of reach in the bottom of the fourth. Hopping started the inning with a walk and moved to third on Mello’s third hit of the game.Band then ripped a double that scored Hopping and Mello to make it 7-0 and knock Hill from the game in favor of Reyes. Noftle would rudely greet him with a home run to right-center to make it 9-0.Noftle breezed through the middle innings before leaving in favor of Pat Dumas in the sixth. Dumas also worked his way through the English lineup with relative ease, striking out four and walking one in his two innings of work.”We got two pitchers who threw strikes and we put the ball in play. Overall, I’m happy with how we played,” Bettencourt said.