Scott Denault of the Glens Falls Golden Eagles mystified the Watertown Wizards with as many arm angles as a Swiss army knife has blades en route to a 3-0 shutout in a New York Collegiate Baseball League game at the Alex T. Duffy Fairgrounds on Wednesday.

Denault needed only 86 pitches and faced three batters over the minimum in the second complete game of his life.

"He's not a flamethrower; he knows how to pitch," Glens Falls manager John Mayotte said. "When you throw strikes early in the count and they swing early in the count; that's when you're going to get that average of nine pitches an inning, which is unheard of."

Denault forced the Wizards (6-13) into 13 ground-ball outs to go with six strikeouts, one walk and two hits allowed in nine innings for the Golden Eagles (13-6). Denault's fastball showed tremendous movement, running in on the hands of right-handed hitters and away from the outstretched bats of the lefties.

"I was locating my fastball really well today," Denault said. "It's really easy to get ahead in the count when your fastball is going in and out and you're keeping the hitters off-balance with that and getting them to chase your off-speed pitch."

Denault, who acts as a middle reliever and right-handed specialist for the University of San Diego, has only pitched one complete game before, a 110-pitch affair.

Despite the low number of pitches needed, Watertown manager Ryan Horning did not feel his team was having trouble with its patience.

"I don't think it's a problem," Horning said. "I just think that guy threw a lot of strikes. I don't think we came out flat. That guy just threw a great game and that's going to happen from time to time."

Glens Falls had runners in scoring position in four of the first five innings, but it wasn't until the sixth that the Golden Eagles were able to drive one home when Jose Valerio smashed a two-run double to center.

"(Valerio) was the key offensively," Mayotte said. "We didn't execute well and we didn't do as good of a job as we should have offensively but he carried us."

The Wizards were shut out for the first time this season and after coming off a five-game stretch in which they scored 30 runs.

"It's pretty frustrating," Watertown catcher and Malone product Derek Marshall said. "Once we get everybody playing well it'll be good. We have to get everybody playing at once, pitching, hitting and defense."