ALLEGANY — In a pitcher’s duel with Salamanca’s Shawn Bacelli, Fillmore’s Graham Cahill emerged with a no-hitter and a bid in the District 2 Little League 10-12-year-old baseball championship.

Scoreless through four innings Friday, Fillmore scored all seven of its runs in the top of the fifth for a 7-0 win. Cahill struck out 12 Salamanca batters and only allowed two base-runners on walks.

Bacelli took the loss with four strikeouts to three walks.

“I think we were ready to play, we just came up against a really good pitcher,” Salamanca coach Greg Herrick said. “He threw a ton of strikes and we had two base-runners on walks. They didn’t make any errors in the field so we had two base-runners the whole time. Our pitcher matched him for four innings and did a great job.”

Four of Fillmore’s runs were unearned, while three came on key runs batted in by Luke Colombo, Brent Zubikowski and Aiden Wagner. Fillmore’s Mitch Ward (double, run scores) and Zubikowski (RBI, run) each went 2-for-3 while Colombo and Wagner had a hit, RBI and run each.

Salamanca’s Andy Herrick reached second base after a leadoff walk, but his team would get no closer to scoring a run.

Fillmore will wait until Sunday for the district championship as Portville visits Wellsville in the other semifinal at 4 p.m. today. Salamanca’s run ends after winning Pool A in District 2 pool play and has six younger players poised to return to the 10-12-year-old level next spring.

“What we’ll remember is definitely the resiliency,” Greg Herrick said. “We won two games in extra innings that we were down in both of them. We were down to our last strike twice and we fought back and won them in extra innings. I told the kids that’s commendable to show that kind of fight.

“We had a scrappy bunch. I think we did the best we could with what we had, I thought all the kids contributed and it was a good team effort, especially in those wins. It’s been a long time since Salamanca has won a pool tournament like that with the likes of Olean and Portville, so I told the kids that they took the next step for Salamanca baseball. They made a good run and now the goal is to build on it.”