Southampton - In no-hitters, there are ordinarily a close call or two that mortify a pitcher during his drive toward the rare feat. Southampton right-hander Brett Moore survived a few scares but was otherwise terrific over his seven innings en route to the first no-hitter in Breakers franchise history, a 6-0 win over North Fork on the back end of a doubleheader at Stony Brook's East End campus.

Moore's no-hitter for The Southampton Breakers came less than two weeks after Sag Harbor southpaw Tim Welch tossed a hitless gem for the Whalers. Moore gave up three walks but excellent location paired with sound and sometimes spectacular defense that keyed the victory. The senior-to-be at Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, MD, tipped his cap to his teammates in collecting his second win of the season in fine fashion.

"I had all my pitches working for me today and I was locating them all, but most of all it was my defense helping me out," Moore said. "They made all the plays behind me, which helped a lot."

Kyle Kubitza's double to left drove in the first of three runs in the third inning for Southampton, which maintained a half-game lead over North Fork in the standings with a doubleheader split.

Moore's pitch count crept up near 120 before Charles Whitman (Westmont) hauled in a lazy fly ball by the Ospreys' Jeff Melillo (Rutgers) for the final out. Over his stint, Moore walked three batters, hit another but struck out seven. His effort wasn't without drama. Trailing by six in the top of the sixth, North Fork loaded the bases with one out, but third baseman Dan Haverstick (Rhode Island) collected a dribbler to the right of the mound and fired home for the force. Moore then finished it himself, striking out Tony Lepore (Southern Illinois) to stem the tide.

By then, everyone in the Southampton dugout, including Moore, was aware of a historic moment brewing. Instead of steering clear of their starter, as is tradition when a no-no is still alive, the class clowns of the Kaiser Division chose a different tack.

"Guys are normally superstitious in the dugout and start creeping away, but when we got to the sixth and seventh inning, the way our team is, they started saying 'Brett has a no-hitter,' " Moore said. "I heard them and was hoping they didn't jinx me, but the defense helped me out and it worked out."

In addition to Haverstick's play on the bunt, Andrew Babb (Suffolk) saved the no-hitter long before anyone knew it was in the works. In the second inning, he raced in from left field and snared a low-flying ball off the bat of Mike DiBiase (Brown). It was the last flyball out until Melillo's clincher in the seventh - 16 straight outs from inning two through seven came via groundout or strikeout.

Babb also did the job offensively, collecting a team-best three hits in the nightcap. The offense, which was stifled by North Fork starter Josh Smith in Southampton's 7-4 loss in the opener, came alive in game two. The Breakers put runners in scoring position in each of the first two innings but failed to score. They finally did in the third as Kyle Kubitza (Texas State) doubled down the left field line to drive in Haverstick with the game's first run. Mark Sunga (Cal State Los Angeles) singled in Kubitza, and three batters later, Babb lined a single into the outfield for a 3-0 edge.

They blew the game open in the fourth as Whitman walked, stole second and scored on an error. Sunga stepped in and plated a pair with double over the left fielder's head for a 6-0 edge.

"Everybody hit," Southampton Manager Andrew Lorraine said. "We did a nice job with the bats. We worked the count well. We had gotten it going in the seventh inning of the first game and we carried it into the second game."

Southampton hits the road on Wednesday for a game at New York Tech against the Mustangs (5 p.m.). North Fork will try to bounce back when it hosts Westhampton at Mattituck High School (5 p.m.).