BARTON THIRD baseman Alex Stephens tags out Moundsville’s Brandon Corley (13) during action from Wednesday night’s Ohio Valley Baseball League game on Henning Field inside Pramesa Park in Crescent. The Expos downed the Braves, 5-2.

CRESCENT — Frontrunning Moundsville extended its lead in the Ohio Valley Baseball League Wednesday night with a 5-2 victory over homestanding Barton on Henning Field inside Pramesa Park.

The Expos (7-3) reached the halfway point of the regular season, and player/manager Bryan Courts has confidence in his team.

“It was a good bounce-back game for us,” Courts said after his team had lost to Wheeling earlier in the week. “We strung some base hits together early and then hung on at the end.”

After walking the first two batters he faced, Greyson Loweecy pitched no-hit ball for four innings before yielding a soft single to left by Gaetan Sinisgalli leading off the fifth. He wound up yielding seven hits, but struck out 12 and issued one free pass the rest of the way.

The game was called due to lightning in the bottom of the seventh with two outs and two Barton (4-5) runners on base.

“Greyson pitched outstanding,” Courts added.

Moundsville scored two unearned runs in the first and tacked on a single tally in the second to take a 3-0 lead.

With one out in their first at-bat, Eric Cover struck out on a pitch that got away from Barton catcher Aaron Marovich as Cover reached first. After a strikeout, Russell Schwertfeger and Tim Mirandy blasted back-to-back doubles as Schwertfeger scored for a 2-0 reading. Bryce Rayl singled leading off the second and raced around the bases on Gino Barber’s single to the gap in left-center as the margin increased to 3-0.

All the while, Loweecy, who has pitched for Barton in the past, was nearly untouchable for the first four frames. The lone baserunner, not including the two base-on-balls, was Sinisgalli who reached on an error in the second.

The Expos made it 5-0 in the top of the fifth as John Santamarino rapped a leadoff single and promptly stole second. He scored when Schwertfeger doubled to deep center. Schwertfeger would cross on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Rayl.

The Braves finally got to Loweecy in the bottom of the inning when Sinisgalli broke up the no-no. He swiped second and scored on Nick Scott’s bloop single to shallow right. With one out, Colton Coss blistered a single back through the box as Scott crossed the plate.

Barton finished with seven hits over the final three innings, but left a pair of runners on in each of the frames.

“Greyson pitched really well,” Barton manager Billy Timko said. “He shut us down for the first four, but when we did get hits, we couldn’t get a big one when we needed it.”

Schwertfeger had a pair of doubles and produced two runs batted in. Brandon Corley singled and doubled. Cover also doubled.

Loweecy threw 125 pitches, with 72 being strikes.

Coss, Sinisgalli and Scott all singled twice for the Braves.

Drake Dobson took the loss. He fanned eight and walked a pair.