A veteran Navigator entering his fourth summer with the club, McElroy hit .253 with 22 RBI and a career-high 10 extra-base hits, 31 runs scored and six stolen bases throughout a solid junior campaign at Holy Cross. The reigning NECBL All-Star had a .404 on-base percentage in 48 games for the Crusaders this spring, reaching base in a team-high 23 in a row through mid-April.

McElroy entered the 2023 season with 116 games played for North Shore, the third-most in franchise history. He drove in 13 runs and scored 12 more as a regular outfielder in last summer’s lineup. The North Andover native was a three-sport captain and Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic honoree for the Scarlet Knights and, before joining the Navs in 2020, completed a postgraduate year at Proctor Academy.