SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Glens Falls coach John Mayotte didn't attend the opening day of the Saratoga racing season. His reasoning was simple.

"I'm a baseball man," Mayotte said.

Mayotte's single-mindedness is indicative of his team's play this summer, and on Wednesday night his Golden Eagles clinched the East Division title of the New York Collegiate Baseball League with a 4-0 win over the Saratoga Phillies. Glens Falls (29-6) has the best record in the league and is eight games ahead of Saratoga (21-14), with four to play.

The Golden Eagles will host a doubleheader, beginning today at 4 p.m., against Watertown. On Friday, Glens Falls will conclude the regular season with another doubleheader, also at East Field, against Bennington. All four games will be seven innings.

Mayotte's catcher, Joe Mercurio, didn't watch the horses run either. He was too busy reminding himself to be aggressive at the plate.

On Sunday, Mercurio struck out four times in a 3-1 Glens Falls win over Amsterdam. He said he felt good, each time, about the cuts he'd taken.

"Lately, I've been telling myself to get the bat off my shoulder," said Mercurio, who plays his college ball at the University of Maine. "Today was one of my better days."

Mercurio, who bats ninth, singled up the middle in the second inning to score Casey Larson. In the fifth, with the bases loaded, he reached base on a well hit ball eventually deemed an error.

"That ground ball was a big hit for us," Mayotte said of Mercurio's RBI in the second. "Right from the first inning, we did those little things to score runs."

The Golden Eagles scored one in the first, one in the second and two in the fifth for all the game's runs. But even this production came on a night of inefficiency. Glens Falls struckout 13 times and left 12 men on base.

"You know it's your year when you strike out like we did tonight and still win 4-0," Mayotte said.

Contributing, substantially, with a split effort on the mound were Golden Eagle pitchers Alex Pepe (3-0) and Barry Keiffer. Pepe allowed two hits in five innings of work. Mercurio attributed his removal to a high pitch count (109 pitches). Keiffer pitched the final four innings, also allowing only two hits.

"When guys are making plays behind them, they feel comfortable to pitch," Mercurio said. "And when they're pitching well, guys behind them feel comfortable. It's just working both ways for us right now."