CLARION — Kyle Yost had himself a night Saturday in Clarion.

The Butler Township pitcher tossed a one-hit shutout — needing just 63 pitches to do so — in leading his team to an 11-0 win over Clarion in the PA District 25 Tournament. He struck out eight and did not walk a batter.

Clarion’s lone hit was a leadoff double down the left field line in the fourth inning. Two other Clarion batters reached base on errors during the contest.

“I’ve been watching Kyle pitch since he was 8 years old,” Butler Township manager Chris Singleton said. “I’ve never seen him as on as he was Saturday night. His pitch location was perfect.

“He was throwing a slider their kids just couldn’t put the bat on. I kept looking up at the scoreboard, where it indicated the pitch count, after each inning and kept thinking, ‘that can’t be right.’”

Saturday’s win puts Butler Township in the district title game. That game will be played at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Adelman Field against the winner of tonight’s Oil City-Clarion contest.

“The official scorekeeper at Clarion asked if he could address our team after the game,” Singleton said. “He told Kyle that was the most impressive pitching performance he had ever seen in a Little League game.

“Kyle was getting a lot of first-pitch ground balls and we made three nice catches in the outfield on first-pitch fly balls.”

By throwing only 63 pitches, Yost is eligible to pitch Wednesday night’s district final. Singleton will go with Tyler Rekich, however, who tossed a perfect game in the tournament opener last week against Franklin.

“We’ll start with Tyler and see how it goes from there,” the manager said.

Yost also reached base on all four of his plate appearances, collecting a single and double, walked once and got aboard on an error. He drove in two runs and scored a pair.

Butler Township broke the game open with a six-run second inning, highlighted by a Rekich three-run homer.

Other key hitters for the winners included Landon Mohney with two doubles and two RBI, Ethan Trettel with a double, single and two runs scored. Trettel fielded six ground balls at shortstop to aid Yost’s pitching effort as well.

“Ethan is as good as any 12-year-old shortstop I’ve seen in this area,” Singleton said.

Tyler Robinson and Ryan Hepfl both had a single and RBI for Butler Township while C.J. Singleton scored a run and had an RBI. Landen Strawn and Brayden Young scored runs as well.

Butler Township has allowed only one hit through two tournament games thus far.

Should Butler Township win Wednesday, it advances to the section tournament in Union City. Play begins there July 18.