NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (June 16, 2025) 一 The North Shore Navigators cranked four doubles during a four-run sixth inning and went on to defeat the host North Adams SteepleCats 5-3 in Monday night’s New England Collegiate Baseball League game at Joe Wolfe Field.

North Shore snapped a two-game losing streak as it improved to 4-8, while North Adams fell to 1-5.

Left fielder Jesse Jaconski (Penn State) and center fielder Brooks Wright (Louisiana) each had two RBI to lead North Shore, which banged out nine hits as a team a night after posting a season-high 10. Jaconski’s two-out, two-run double into the left-center field gap in the sixth turned out to be the difference in the game.

Also contributing to the Navigator offense, center fielder Sam Parks (Stonehill) and second baseman Jack Gold (Pomona-Pitzer) recorded two hits and reached base three times apiece as the bookends in the batting order.

On the mound, Joseph Hauser (Northeastern) earned the win in relief of starter Benjamin Rehkow (Winthrop), who allowed two runs (one earned) and struck out three across the first four innings. Hauser struck out a pair during a scoreless fifth. Three of North Shore’s four relievers recorded scoreless outings.

Rehkow gave up just one hit across two scoreless innings, but the hosts scored first on second baseman Cuyler Baxter’s (Wake Forest) two-out RBI single in the third. The North Adams lead doubled when center fielder Eli Gries-Smith (Arkansas-Pine Bluff) drew a leadoff walk, stole second and advanced on a subsequent wild pitch, and scored on left fielder Corey Robinson’s (UCF) sac fly two batters later.

The Navs got to the North Adams bullpen after being held to just two hits across Kyle Salvati’s five-inning start, flipping the score with four runs on five hits in the sixth. The inning started with Gold hitting a leadoff double to right, advancing to third on Parks’ infield single over the pitcher’s mound and scoring on Wright’s RBI fielder’s choice grounder to short. 

Catcher Aukai Kea (Vanderbilt) followed Wright with a double to left before Jaconski’s swing two batters later gave North Shore a lead that it would never relinquish. Third baseman Alex Marot (West Virginia) then extended the frame with his own run-scoring double inside the right-field line. 

Kea and Marot also finished the game with multiple hits.

After Zach Kittrell (Alabama) made his North Shore debut with two strikeouts in a scoreless sixth inning, the Navs expanded their lead with a seventh-inning run. Parks restarted the offense with a single up the middle and stole second, setting the table for Wright’s RBI knock to left.

Baxter’s second run-scoring hit of the game brought North Adams a run closer in the bottom half of the seventh, but North Andover native Ryan Griffin (Northeastern) retired the side before going on to finish his two-inning relief outing with a summer career-high five strikeouts. 

Cole Yennaco (Merrimack) slammed the door shut in the ninth, striking out one in a 1-2-3 inning en route to his league-leading third save through five appearances.

The Navs host the Newport Gulls at 6:05 p.m. Tuesday in their final game at Fraser Field before a six-game road trip.