BANGOR – Oak Hill High School junior lefty Josh Jillson said he had some back pain in his last couple of outings leading up to Saturday’s state Class B baseball final against Bucksport.

Jillson didn’t experience any back pain at balmy Mansfield Stadium, but he became a royal pain for the Golden Bucks.

Jillson became the first pitcher to shut out the Bucks this season, firing a three-hitter with nine strikeouts and four walks as Oak Hill beat Bucksport 8-0.

The Sabattus-based Raiders had beaten the Bucks 7-3 in the 2003 state B final.

Oak Hill, the No. 7 seed in Western Maine, won its 12th straight game and finished at 16-5. Bucksport wound up 18-2 after having its 18-game winning streak snapped.

“I felt great today,” said Jillson, who threw 62 strikes among his 102 pitches. “The warm weather definitely helped [my back]. In my last game, I didn’t have my fastball at all because my back was bothering me. So over half of my pitches were curveballs. It felt good to have both pitches today.”

“This was one of my best games of the season,” added Jillson, who wound up 8-0 with a 0.56 earned run average.

Bucksport, which entered the game hitting .385, advanced just two runners past second base.

“He threw hard. We’ve had trouble with lefties all year and he was the best lefty we’ve seen,” said Bucksport junior third baseman Chris Maguire. “His breaking ball was real good and he had good control. He hit his spots.”

Bucksport sophomore second baseman Eddie Robbins said Jillson painted the outside corner against righties with his “tailing fastball” and he “spotted it real well.”

Oak Hill catcher Wally Rines added, “When [Josh] needed a big pitch, he had it. He was pretty dominant with his fastball.”

His mates played errorless ball behind him and snuffed out an attempted double steal in a first-and-third situation with no outs in the fourth inning.

With OH leading 2-0, Robbins walked to open the fourth and Maguire grounded a sharp single to right-center. Robbins was running on the play.

With Joe Robicheau at the plate, Maguire broke for second. When the throw from catcher Wally Rines went to second baseman Guerette, Maguire stopped, started back to first, and was quickly tagged out by Guerette.

Robbins was trapped between third and home and Guerette ran at Robbins before throwing to third baseman Brian Bisson to initiate a rundown that eventually saw Jillson tag him out.

“If the throw went through, I was supposed to stop. But when I tried to stop, I slipped,” said Maguire.

Oak Hill coach Chad Drouin said his team was victimized by that exact same play four times earlier “so we practice that play a lot and it paid off today.”

Guerette said Maguire would have had the base stolen easily “so we figured [when he stopped], it was that play. I made sure I got him [tagged out] real quick and then I looked and the guy was halfway down the [third-base] line, so I ran at him.”

Bisson, the offensive star of the game with two doubles, a single, and two RBIs, said that play “was the turning point in the game. We were fired up after that.”

Bisson ignited a two-run rally in the top of the fifth with a ringing one-out double to the base of the left field fence.

After Rines reached on an infield single, Bisson scored when Dustin Dubuc, just 0-for-2 this season, executed a squeeze bunt for his first RBI of the year.

“The pitch was outside, but it was a squeeze so I knew I had to hit it,” said Dubuc.

A dropped popup by losing pitcher Robicheau allowed the second run to score.

The Raiders added three more in the sixth on RBI singles by Bisson, Rines, and Eric Daniels, and another in the seventh on Guerette’s triple and Mike Eaton’s sacrifice fly.

Oak Hill had opened the scoring in the third on an infield error, a wild pitch, Mike Eaton’s sharp RBI single down the first-base line and Bisson’s booming RBI double to the fence in left.

Bisson’s two RBIs gave him a team-high 30 on the season.

“I felt very good coming into the game. I struggled early in the year, but now I’m relaxed and seeing the ball real well,” said Bisson, who added his two doubles came off “fastballs in my sweet spot.”

RAIDERS 8, GOLDEN BUCKS 0

Oak Hill (16-5) Bucksport (18-2)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Guerette, 2b 3 1 2 0 Jackson, ss 1 0 0

D. Eaton, rf 5 1 2 0 Robbins, cf 2 0 0

M. Eaton, cf 4 2 2 2 Maguire, 3b 3 0 0

Jillson, p 3 1 0 0 Robicheau, p 3 0 0

Leavitt, ph 1 0 0 0 Wadleigh, c 3 0 0

Bisson, 3b 3 1 3 2 Freeman, rf 3 0 0

W. Rines, c 3 1 2 1 Soper, dh 2 0 0

Plourde, lf 3 0 0 0 Bisher, 1b 0 0 0

Dubuc, ph 0 1 0 1 P. Dedmon, lf 2 0 0

Daniels, 1b 3 0 1 1 Fish, 2b 1 0 0

Stowell, dh 1 0 0 0

Seguin, dh 2 0 0 0

Ellis, ss 0 0 0 0

Totals 31 8 12 7 Totals 20 0 3 0

Oak Hill 002 023 1 – 8

Bucksport 000 000 0 – 0

E-Robicheau 2, Jackson, Wadleigh; LOB-Oak Hill 11, Bucksport 3; 2B-Bisson 2; Freeman; 3B-Guerette; DP-Ellis-Daniels; Fish-Jackson-Bisher; S-Dubuc; SF-M. Eaton; SB-Guerette, M. Eaton; Jackson 2

Oak Hill IP H R ER BB SO

Jillson (W, 8-0) 7 3 0 0 4 9

Bucksport IP H R ER BB SO

Robicheau (L, 8-2) 7 12 8 6 3 3

HBP-Bisson (by Robicheau); WP-Robicheau; T-1:55; ATT-750 (est.)