ALTOONA -- Camp Hill pitcher Matt Spiegel had been 4-0 in the postseason, including two of the team's three wins in the PIAA playoffs. Camp Hill jumped on his back one last time.

Spiegel carried Camp Hill to a 2-0 victory against Carmichaels in the PIAA Class A final last night at Blair County Ballpark in Altoona.

Spiegel pitched a two-hitter and struck out five in breaking the Mighty Mikes' 21-game winning streak. Carmichaels, the WPIAL champion, finished with a 23-2 record.

Spiegel, a junior right-hander, lifted his season mark to 9-4. He outdueled Carmichaels pitcher Chuck Gasti (9-1), who allowed only six hits in his first loss of the season.

"[Spiegel] is a kid who was throwing 78 [mph]," said Carmichaels coach Dave Bates. "That doesn't scare anybody. But his slowest pitch was 66. From his slowest to his fastest, that's a real timing problem."

Ethan Virgili and Bill Musgrove had the only Carmichaels hits. Spiegel also walked four, but Carmichaels never got a runner past second.

"I was saying all week that we needed [Spiegel] to throw strikes, which he always does," said Camp Hill coach Brad Shover. "And our middle infield had to make some plays, and they did that. That kept us away from some big innings."

Carmichaels had runners on first and second in the first inning but didn't score and had runners on first and second in the sixth. But Camp Hill catcher Tyler Shover picked off Carmichaels' Zach Durbin at first base.

"We played tight today and made some mistakes that we usually don't make," Bates said.

Camp Hill (18-9), near Harrisburg, scored single runs in the second and fourth innings. Spiegel was hit by a pitch to lead off the second, moved to second base on a single, to third on a fielder's choice and scored on Matt Robertson's single.

No. 9 hitter Parker Marsh drove home the second run with a single.

After the game, Bates gathered his players around him and told them to remember John Challis, a Freedom High School athlete who has terminal cancer. Bates and all of Carmichaels' players have Challis' name written in their hats, even though they have never met Challis.

"It just puts things in perspective," Bates said. "Right now, this game seems like the biggest thing in the world. My heart is completely broken. But at the same time, it means nothing compared to what John Challis is going through."