KEENE, N.H. (June 24, 2025) 一 The Keene SwampBats scored three runs over the final two innings to earn a 4-3, walk-off win over the visiting North Shore Navigators in Tuesday night’s New England Collegiate Baseball League game at Alumni Field.

North Shore, which was seeking its second consecutive North Division victory, fell to 5-13 on the summer. Keene added to its league-leading win total and stands at 14-2.

Right fielder Sam Parks (Stonehill) and third baseman Jackson Powers (Saint Anselm) each had two hits for North Shore, while first baseman Alex Marot (Charleston Southern) had an RBI single and scored another run on a successful double steal in the fourth inning.

The Navs responded to Keene’s tying runs in both the fourth and ninth, with center fielder Ethan Wilson (Winthrop) punctuating the latter of those frames with a bases-loaded walk. With two on and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth, though, Keene second baseman Ty Mainolfi (Dayton) hit a two-run single into center to win the game.

North Shore grabbed a first-inning lead for the second consecutive game, as Parks hit a leadoff single, advanced to second on Wilson’s groundout and scored when Marot stung a two-out RBI single through the right side of the infield into right.

Nahant native starter Nick Reiser (Bridgewater State) was not troubled by baserunners in each of the first two innings as he recorded a strikeout in each to help North Shore maintain its lead, but the hosts tied the score on shortstop Dylan Cupp’s (Mississippi State) solo home run to left with one out in the third. 

The Navs got the run right back in the fourth. After Marot reached base on an error to begin the inning, catcher Aukai Kea (Vanderbilt) walked and teamed up with Marot on a double steal that produced the go-ahead tally.

Four straight zeroes put up by the North Shore bullpen brought the game into the late innings, as the trio of Colin Dowdle (Holy Cross), Sean Zaslaw (Bryant) and Zach Kittrell (Alabama) allowed just one hit over that span. 

Dowdle tossed a 1-2-3 inning and Zaslaw worked around a hit and struck out a batter before Kittrell posted his longest appearance as a Navigator, fanning three across two innings of shutout, one-hit work. Kittrell stranded the potential tying run in the seventh, as shortstop Jack Rickheim (Harvard) completed a relay from shallow left field home to Kea.

After SwampBat designated hitter Xavier Perez (Houston) hit a game-tying solo homer in the eighth, Swampscott native Pierce Friedman (Maine) extinguished the threat with a strikeout. 

In the North Shore ninth, pinch-hitting designated hitter Nater Wachter (UConn) drew a leadoff walk and advanced on left fielder Brooks Wright’s (Southeastern Louisiana) sacrifice bunt. After another walk and a hit batter loaded the bases, Wilson drew a free pass that forced home a go-ahead run.

Keene quickly strung together the game-winning offense in the bottom of the ninth, as center fielder Marshall Lipsey (Florida Atlantic) walked and catcher Ripken Reese (Kent State) doubled to the center-field fence before Mainolfi’s walk-off hit. Mainolfi went 2-for-4 with two RBI.

Before making their long-awaited return to Fraser Field this weekend, the Navs return to action on Friday as they complete their home-and-home season series against the Newport Gulls. First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m. from historic Cardines Field.