TRUMBULL, Conn. – Many youth baseball teams would have packed up their bat bags and called it a tour­nament after getting han­dled like Nashua did Fri­day morning against New Milford left-hander Austin Dutcher, who was one walk away from throwing a perfect game.

Nashua’s 15-year-old Babe Ruth all-star team de­cided to fight.

Fight they did, using the pitching of right-hander Pat McCarthy and a more representative form of offense to pull out a 6-5 victory over Plymouth (Mass.) during Saturday af­ternoon’s action at the New England Regionals.

McCarthy led the way for Nashua (1-1), pitching all seven innings to pick up the victory, while going 1 for 3 with a walk, two RBIs and one run scored. Alex Patno added a double and three RBIs while first-baseman Tyler Macquarie went 3 for 4 with one RBI.

Nashua, which remains in the hunt for a berth to the semifinal round head­ing into Sunday’s final game of pool play against host Trumbull, collected just eight hits off three Plym­outh pitchers. But just get­ting the bat on the ball and runs across the plate was a huge relief coming off the no-hitter on Friday.

"Through our districts and states, we knew we could score a lot of runs," McCarthy said. "I think we always had it in us. We faced a really good pitcher in the Dutcher kid, but I knew we could come back the next day. I think we hit pretty well today."

Nashua players didn’t sit around lamenting their troubles on Friday. They went to work instead, vis­iting a local batting cage Saturday morning before doing more work in the cage at the field prior to the game.

The results were immedi­ate as shortstop Alex Amigo beat out an infield single to lead off the bottom of the first and Connor Coy fol­lowed with a sharp single to right. Both runners scored on RBI groundouts by Mc­Carthy and Alex Patno to stake Nashua to a 2-1 lead.

"We knew we had to get some work in the cages. That was uncharacteristic of us. We’ve been hitting the heck out of the ball all sum­mer," Nashua coach Mike Coy said. "I just think they had to work out some of their jitters and butterflies and get some hacks."

Nashua took a 6-2 lead into the fifth, but had to work to finish it off. Plym­outh (0-2), which lost to Trumbull on Friday night, scored one in the fifth and pushed across two more in the top of the seventh to make things interesting. But McCarthy, who allowed 11 hits but worked himself out of trouble all night, struck out Matt Lane after a 10-pitch battle to end the game.

"Pat’s a very smart base­ball player," Coy said. "He knows how to use the pitch­es he has and how they’re working. He pitched his heart out today. He wasn’t going to be denied."