GLENS FALLS -- If he could have his way, Tommy Meagher would wake up each morning and know exactly what the day has in store for him.

That's how he likes to come to the ballpark, with his role carefully defined.

"I get more pumped up that way," he said.

This summer, as a starting pitcher for the Glens Falls Golden Eagles, Meagher is showing that when given this opportunity, good results usually follow.

Meagher on Monday night took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and allowed two hits in a complete-game 6-1 NYCBL win over the Amsterdam Mohawks at East Field.

Meagher, a closer at St. Petersburg College, improved to a team-best 5-0 and placed Glens Falls two wins away from clinching a division crown.

The Eagles lead second-place Saratoga by 6 1/2 games with eight to play.

In a game that started more than 20 minutes late while a grounds crew fiddled with a damp pitching mound -- rain once again threatened the game's start -- Meagher sent everyone home plenty early. He struck out 10, walked none and multiple times, it seemed, retired the side before you could take a bite of your hot dog.

"Everything was working," Glens Falls coach John Mayotte said. "It was an economy of effort."

It looked so easy that two-thirds of the way into the game, the first nine-inning no-hitter in team history was more than plausible. Talk was squashed with one out in the seventh when Amsterdam's Kevin Nieto ripped a slider into center field.

Meagher shrugged it off. "It happens," he said.

Mike Konstanty and Kevin Mahoney homered, supplying the Eagles with more than enough offense. Mahoney, in belting a three-run homer in the third, pushed his league-leading RBI total to 42. Konstanty's fifth-inning shot, a two-run blast, pinged off the left-field scoreboard.

NOTES: Mayotte said he was particularly shaken up by the on-field death of minor-league coach Mike Coolbaugh. He said he once coached Coolbaugh's brother, Scott, in the Cape Cod League. "An awful, freak tragedy," he called it. ... Eagles owner Darin Williams said regardless of how this week plays out, Glens Falls will host a first-round playoff game next Monday. ... The team continues to sell old merchandise of the Adirondack Wildcats, the USBL team that played in the Civic Center from 2002-03 and once employed Terrell Owens.