GLENS FALLS * Towering over plenty of his teammates at 6-foot-6, Rick Seltzer offers a lot of things to a baseball team.

Any throw toward first base that sails high - the kind that would knock the popcorn out of the fan seated in the front row - usually lands safely in his first baseman ’s mitt.

And he can swing the bat, as he showed Sunday night. Seltzer singled home the winning run in Glens Falls ’ swift and efficient 2-1 NYCBL victory over Little Falls at East Field. The eighth-inning hit ensured Mike Wanamaker got a well-deserved win. Two weeks after throwing a seven-inning no-hitter, the burly right-hander headed to Penn State struck out seven in a complete-game four-hitter to improve to 3-0.

Seltzer, soon to be a senior at Siena, up until two weeks ago commuted from Glens Falls to Loudonville two nights a week for a summer school course. He missed one game each week, and the Eagles are glad he won ’t miss anymore.

Attrition - injuries and players returning home for various other reasons - has left Glens Falls with just 11 non-pitchers. With two weeks left in the regular season, there won ’t be a whole lot of lineup shuffling down the stretch for the team that ’s played the whole season with a sizable division lead.

The Eagles (24-5) won their second straight game since falling to second-place Saratoga (19-10) on Friday night. This one never felt in doubt with Wanamaker on the hill - he didn ’t give up a hit until the top of the fifth - but it wasn ’t crystallized until Seltzer ’s two-out base knock.

Seltzer said he was worried he connected too sharply with the ball, which reached the right fielder on one hop. Shaffer, who opened the inning with a single, got a nice jump from second base and rounded third with coach John Mayotte, standing in the coaches ’ box, looking like a human windmill, his arm spinning nearly out of its socket signaling Shaffer home. Shaffer arrived just ahead of the throw, which catcher Danny Etkin bobbled.

“I was going all the way, ” Shaffer said. “Sometimes I do some stupid things out there, but good thing we got the run that time. ”

Seltzer, showing off his own speed, stole a base in the sixth inning and earlier scored the game ’s first run all the way from first on a Casey Larson double.

Seltzer grew up in Allentown -- the Pennsylvania town immortalized in the Billy Joel song of the same name -- and was pointed to Siena by a Baltimore Orioles scout that had graduated from the college. With one more year left at school, he says he hopes to savor his final year, which will be easy to do with more nights like Sunday.

“(Sunday) was good ... I did my job, ” he said.

LITTLE FALLS GLENS FALLS

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Leskiw cf 3 0 0 0 Owens 2b 4 0 0 0

Gonzalez 2b 4 0 0 0 DeGeorge ss 3 0 0 0

Edwards 3b 4 1 1 0 Shaffer rf 2 1 2 0

Enman rf 0 0 0 0 Mahoney 3b 4 0 0 0

Witkowski dh 4 0 2 1 Konstanty dh 3 0 1 0

Ortega ss 3 0 0 0 Seltzer 1b 3 1 1 1

Kowalski 1b 3 0 0 0 Larson cf 4 0 2 1

Etkin c 3 0 0 0 Cooke lf 3 0 0 0

Sanchez 3 0 1 0 Johnson c 3 0 0 0

Totals 30 1 4 1 29 2 6 2

Little Falls (11-16) 000 000 100 - 1 4 0

Glens Falls (24-5) 000 100 01x - 2 6 2

E - Owens, Wanamaker. DP - Little Falls 1, Glens Falls 1. LOB - Little Falls 4, Glens Falls 8. 2B - Witkowski, Shaffer, Larson. SAC - Enman. SB - Shaffer, Seltzer. CS - Witkowski.

IP H R ER BB SO

Little Falls

Johnson 7 4 1 1 4 6

Mastin, L (1-1) 1 2 1 1 0 0

Glens Falls

Wanamaker, W (3-0) 9 4 1 1 1 7

HPB - by Johnson (Konstanty). PB - Etkin.

T - 2:10. A - 282.