LEWISTON – Some losses stick longer than others. Lewiston suffered one such defeat Wednesday.

After being no-hit for the first five innings, Brunswick rallied from a 4-1 deficit, scoring two runs with two outs in the seventh to tie it, then knocked off Lewiston, 5-4 in eight innings at Franklin Field.

Kevin Wilson’s double in the eighth drove home Duncan Lowe with the winning run, the only earned run scored off Lewiston starter Eddie West, and Brunswick starter David Longley stranded the tying and winning runs on base in the bottom of the frame to pick up his fourth win of the season without a loss.

“He’s a competitor. He keeps the ball around the plate and always keeps us in the game,” Brunswick coach Peter Blake said. “If we can scratch out a couple of runs, we can usually win for him.”

Longley gave up a pinch hit, two-out, two-run double to Josh Leino in the sixth that broke a 2-2 tie. In the seventh, West (eight innings, five hits, eight Ks, two walks) surrendered a leadoff single to Anthony Viola. Viola stole second, but West seemed to have things under control with a strikeout and a ground out.

Trouble started again with a bobble at shortstop on a Sam Guerrette grounder that plated Viola with the third Brunswick run. After Guerrette stole second, Robbie Basquez hit a ground ball up the middle that the second baseman back-handed and threw into the dirt. Basquez probably would have been safe anyway, but the ball skipped by the first baseman and allowed Guerrette to score from second and tie the game.

Duncan Lowe singled to start the eighth for the Dragons (5-2), stole second, then scored on Wilson’s one-out double into left-center.

“I was struggling at the plate a little bit, and I was trying to drive it the other way, just trying to get a base hit, and I hit it hard,” Wilson said. “West throws hard, and then he mixes in that curve ball. He’s a good pitcher.”

The Blue Devils (3-4) threatened a comeback of their own with an infield hit to Conroy LeBlond and a single to Jake Brown with one out in the bottom of the eighth. But Longley got Chris Jacques to foul out and Alex Wong to fly out to center to end it.

“It was tough after they scored those two on us in the sixth. I didn’t take it well at first. But in the seventh inning, I was just really impressed with the way we carried ourselves in the dugout,” Longley said. “With two outs, we were still up there chattering, and Robbie got that last hit and that got us great momentum and a great team attitude going into extra innings.”

Lewiston’s defensive struggles contrasted some crisp offensive execution earlier in the game. The Devils took a 2-0 lead in the second when Jacques went with a Longley pitch and singled to the opposite field to drive in Robbie Leeman and Jeff Keene.

West, meanwhile, pitched around a catcher’s interference and a walk in the first, gave up an unearned run in the third, then cruised before giving up his first hit, a solid single by Lowe that drove in Brunswick’s second run in the sixth.

“He pitched a great performance. He dug down deep and made some good pitches,” Lewiston coach Todd Cifelli said. “Those are two of the top three pitchers in the KVAC throwing today. I liked what we did offensively. We bunted the baseball well and we got some clutch hits, but we’ve got to learn how to finish games.”

The Blue Devils will have to bounce back quickly with road games Friday at Messalonskee and Monday at Brunswick before returning home next Wednesday against Morse. The team is holding a collection for troops that day and is asking fans to bring toiletry items to the snack shack to donate to military personnel overseas.