Scoring runs was rarely a problem for the Franklin County Flyers during both the American Legion Baseball regular season and postseason.

The team scored nearly seven runs per game — totaling 124 while going 14-4 during the regular season. The Flyers scored seven and then 10 in winning their first two games of the state tournament, before falling 10-2 to the Hampden-based Quirk Motor City Riverdogs and dropping into the losers’ bracket.

The offense picked back up in a pair of elimination games, beating Hight Skowhegan 12-2 on Tuesday and the Ellsworth-based Trenton Acadians 9-3 on Wednesday. That set up a rematch with the Riverdogs, who once again quieted the Flyers.

TJ Llerena, who will be a senior at Hampden Academy this fall, pitched a complete-game shutout on 88 pitches in a 2-0 win Wednesday evening at Bangor’s Mansfield Stadium to secure the state championship for the Riverdogs.

Llerena took a perfect game into the bottom of the fifth, but Franklin County’s Brody Walsh broke it up with a leadoff single.

That was the lone hit Llerena allowed until the bottom of the seventh. Karter Meader singled with one out, and Walsh followed with another base hit, giving the Flyers their first runner in scoring position. However, Llerena recorded a strikeout and force out to close out the Riverdogs’ victory.

Kaiden Pillsbury took the loss, giving up single runs in each of the first two innings — including a Llerena two-out RBI single to open the scoring in the top of the first — and finishing with four hits and four walks in 3 1/3 innings. Logan Dube followed with 3 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.

In Franklin County’s win over the Acadians earlier Wednesday, Walsh earned the pitching win while Dube closed out the victory. The Flyers scored five runs in the top of the second to send them on their way to the win and a spot in the tournament championship game.