LIVERMORE FALLS — While some of their peers played through Thursday’s rain, Livermore Falls elected to wait until Friday’s fine forecast to let James McLamb hang a young and hungry Telstar team out to dry.

McLamb, a senior southpaw, scattered three hits in a complete game, 6-0 shutout, which sets up a rematch of last year’s Western C semifinals between No. 3 Livermore Falls and No. 2 St. Dom’s (Saturday, noon). It is the fourth straight year the Andies and Saints have met late in the playoffs.

Willie Brown blasted a three-run home run, and McLamb helped himself out with two hits and two runs scored. The Andies (13-4) got a hit in every inning en route to 10 overall, led by Chandler White’s three singles.

“Anytime you have two weeks off, you wonder which team is going to show up,” said Andies coach Brian Dube, whose team last played on May 28. “I challenged James to go out and work ahead in the count. The first couple of innings, he struggled a little, but once he started mixing pitches, then he took control.”

McLamb (six strikeouts, four walks), who was facing the Rebels for the third time this season, worked around two walks and a passed ball in the first and an error in the second before he gained command of his curve and set the side down, 1-2-3, in the third.

“He knows what he’s doing,” Telstar coach Bob Remington said. “He kept the fastball out of the middle, kept the fastball out of the strike zone, and we couldn’t hit it very well on the edges. And then he’d drop that curve ball over.”

Telstar threatened in the fourth with a two-out walk and double by Tyler Brown, but McLamb got Ben Field to hit a tapper in front of the plate that catcher Brandon Hodges pounced on and fired to first to maintain the shutout.

The Rebels tried to cause trouble one last time in the fourth on one-out singles by  Kyle Peterson and Corey Howard. McLamb kept his poise and got Dan Whitney to pop out to the shortstop and T.J. O’Connor to ground out to third unassisted.

“I was hitting the corners and (the umpire) was giving me the calls,” McLamb said. “The curve ball wasn’t working too good in the first three innings, but after I snapped my wrist a few times it started going over the plate and they were swinging.”

“He gave us exactly what we needed, a complete game,” Dube said. “With the pitching rule going into (Saturday), we only had Derek (Castonguay) and Willie available for one (inning) each today.”

Field stranded three Andies and picked off a fourth in the first two innings. But then he hit three batters in the third and two came back to haunt him. White singled home McLamb and Brown scored on a passed ball to give Livermore Falls all the runs it needed.

One-out singles by McLamb and Castonguay in the fourth chased Field. Peterson took over to face Brown, who launched an 0-1 pitch to center for his school record seventh homer of the season.

“I was just staying aggressive. He gave me a fastball on the first one that was a little low and I didn’t like it. The next one was probably thigh high down the middle and I gave it a rip,” Brown said. “The philosophy of Andies baseball is to hit fastballs early in the count. We’ve done that all  year and it’s working so far. We’re hitting the ball well.”

Castonguay scored the game’s final run on a wild pitch in the sixth.

The Rebels, who will lose just one starter, left-fielder Mike Fitzmorris, to graduation, finished their season at 9-6.