Delweld and Martella’s Pharmacy already made history in an all-Johnstown matchup in the 65th AAABA Tournament on Friday night.

Drew Shaulis provided an historical exclamation point.

The Delweld left-hander pitched a no-hitter in a 4-1 victory over Martella’s in front of an estimated 6,000 fans at Point Stadium.

“A no-hitter in the tournament, what can you say?” said Delweld manager Chris DelSignore, who added Shaulis to his tournament roster as a pickup player from the Berkley Hills Renegades. “I’m so happy for that kid. If you would have told me he’d go the whole distance after the first inning he had. ... I had a guy warming up in the pen.

“He got those first-inning jitters out of the way.”

Shaulis didn’t have a strong start – he walked Martella’s first three batters – but he finished in impressive fashion.

The Pitt-Johnstown hurler retired the final 19 Martella’s hitters in order. He struck out eight and walked four – with no walks after the third inning.

Of his 113 pitches, 64 were for strikes.

“I had to settle down and start throwing strikes and let the fielders make the plays,” Shaulis said. “Nothing was working at the beginning of the game. I finally settled down. I used the fastball and curveball all game.”

Delweld (3-1) will play Brooklyn at 7:30 tonight at the Point.

The Bonnies edged the Johns-town champs 6-5 in 12 innings on Thursday.

Martella’s closed a 2-2 tournament while playing in the upper bracket. Manager Chris Pfeil’s team was a late replacement for Washington after the Vienna Senators dropped out less than 24 hours prior to registration. The only other time Johnstown had two representatives in the same tournament was during the 22-team field in 1989 as the city commemorated the 1889 Flood Centennial.

Two Johnstown teams never had met. The historic implications drew a large crowd to watch two teams that split eight regular-season contests and took a best-of-5 championship series to the distance. Delweld won both the regular-season and playoff crowns.

“Obviously we’re disappointed we lost, but you’ve got to take your hat off to Drew Shaulis,” Pfeil said. “You never want to get no-hit, but Drew is a great kid. As disappointed as we are, you couldn’t have asked for a better kid to get a no-hitter, and for that kid, a night he’ll never forget.”

Martella’s scored its lone run in the first on cleanup hitter Mike LeViseur’s sacrifice fly.

Shaulis struck out Tom Burkett, and catcher Matt Cornetti threw out Chris Rasky attempting to steal third, ending the threat.

“It was huge to hold them to only one run in the bottom of the first when they had the bases loaded and nobody out,” DelSignore said. “That was a win for us. Then Drew kind of settled in. We made some great plays defensively, and we put a few runs across the plate. Drew did the rest.”

The AAABA Tournament record book lists the most recent no-hit, no-run game as 1973, when Baltimore’s Joe Kerrigan and Charles Porter combined to blank Newark 20-0. There have been five no-hit, no-run games.

Initially, it could not be confirmed if anyone else had thrown a no-hitter while allowing one or more runs.

That didn’t matter to Shaulis.

“It was a good time. It feels good,” Shaulis said. “I knew about it the whole time by just looking out at the board. You just can’t think about it. You have to get out there and throw strikes and try to win the game.”

DelSignore had reliever Bobby Carbaugh warming up with the bases loaded in the first. Before making a change though, he wanted to check in with Shaulis.

“I said, ‘Hey, how do you feel? Find your release point. Just relax. You’ll be OK. Once you find your release point everything is going to be fine,’ ” DelSignore said. “We got the sacrifice fly and then the strikeout, throw-him-out at third. Credit (catcher) Matt Cornetti for holding on and then making a big play down to (third baseman) Tyler (Uphouse) for a big out.”

Uphouse made a tough stab of Steve Bills’ grounder to third to open the ninth. Shaulis then fielded Colin Harrington’s comebacker for the second out.

He struck out Rasky to wrap up the no-no.

“We had that nice lead, and all I was worried about was winning the game,” Shaulis said. “Nobody got a hit and it turned out even better.

“Uphouse had a nice play, and (second baseman Nick) Barbera had a nice play earlier in the game,” Shaulis added.

“Without those guys the no-hitter wouldn’t have been possible. Cornetti called a good game. That’s the first game I’ve ever pitched with him. We were on the same page all night.”

Delweld’s offensive support came from Cornetti, who tripled and scored in the third, was hit by a pitch and scored in the fifth, and drove in the final run with a flyout in the eighth.

Barbera had two hits and a run. Matt Staub singled and scored.

Pfeil felt that the two local teams put the city in a positive light.

“There were two dugouts full of kids who rose up to the occasion and it was a great show,” Pfeil said. “It was great for the city and great for area baseball. I think this area is going to start getting a lot more notice as far as the quality of baseball here.

“We have some high schools making great runs in the state playoffs. We have an unbelievable Pony League program. The AAABA teams have gone to the national tournament and made some noise. This year we had two teams get to the final six, and Delweld has as good a chance as anyone to win it.”