The Telstar pitcher tosses his fourth straight shutout.

MONMOUTH – The way Terry Collins is pitching for them this season, the Telstar Rebels don’t need to score a lot of runs.

About one a game will do.

Telstar got twice as many runs as it needed, and Collins extended his scoreless pitching streak to four games by tossing a 2-0 shutout against Monmouth in a steady shower Monday at Chick Field.

August Reiss’ solo homer in the third proved to be enough for Collins, but the Rebels scratched across an unearned insurance run in the sixth for good measure.

“(The home run) helped me a lot. As soon as we got one, I knew we were in control,” Collins said.

Collins yielded three hits, struck out 10, walked one and hit three batters while going the distance. He is now 4-0 with three straight shutouts and has not surrendered an earned run in any of his four starts.

“He gave up two unearned (runs) in the first game with Livermore, and no one else has scored,” said Telstar coach Bob Remington. “He’s thrown four complete games and as you can see, he gets stronger at the end. He’s worked harder than he did a year ago, and he’s seeing the dividends.”

Mark Wade, Collins’ opposite number for Monmouth, put up nearly identical numbers (seven innings, one earned run, three hits, 10 Ks, two walks). His only major mistake came in the third when Reiss, recently demoted in the batting order from cleanup to seventh, crushed an 0-1 fastball to left field.

“He threw me a first-pitch fastball, and I knew against the seventh hitter, he’s not going to try to throw a curve ball.” he said. “It was right up in my wheelhouse.”

Travis Brooks had two hits for Telstar (5-2). Ben Seefeldt, Andy Bellmore and Scott Ogden collected the hits for Monmouth (4-5).

Both pitchers cruised through the middle innings as the rainfall became steadier. Wade retired 10 of the next 11 hitters after Reiss’ home run. Monmouth put single runners on in the fourth, fifth and sixth, but none made it past second base.

Down to their last out, the Mustangs tried to mount a rally when a Bellmore single, a wild pitch and a walk put runners on first and third, but Collins struck out Cam Saucier swinging to end it.

“The ball was getting slippery and it was kind of hard to locate it,” Collins said. “You just try to get ahead in the count and throw strikes and keep the ball down.”