NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (July 4, 2025) 一 The North Shore Navigators saw their four-game losing streak come to an end with a 11-2 loss to the host North Adams SteepleCats in Friday night’s New England Collegiate Baseball League action in front of a jam-packed crowd at Joe Wolfe Field.

North Shore concludes its second four-game streak in as many summers with a 9-15 overall record, while North Adams earned its third straight victory to move to 7-14.

Third baseman Davis Baker (Penn) led North Shore with an RBI double and a run scored, while the team’s final four relief pitchers combined to throw 6.1 innings without allowing an earned run. Zach Kittrell (Alabama) started the bullpen effort with three strikeouts across 2.1 frames, marking his longest outing of the summer.

The SteepleCats scored all 11 runs over the first four innings, including five in the first to take a lead that they would never relinquish. A two-run double into the left-center field gap by first baseman Nolan DeAndrade (Franklin Pierce) punctuated the frame.

After five straight one-out baserunners helped produce four second-inning runs before the hosts rounded out the scoring with two runs in the fourth. In the second, shortstop Nelphie Lopez (Stetson) recorded his second of three hits and his second run scored in as many plate appearances.

North Adams starter Kyle Salvati (Franklin Pierce) turned in an outstanding start, striking out 11 while allowing just two hits across the first five innings. 

Salvati stranded the bases loaded with nobody out in the first inning after North Shore right fielder Sam Parks (Stonehill) hit a leadoff single to right and left fielder Jack Gold (Pomona-Pitzer) and first baseman Alex Marot (Charleston Southern) both walked. The SteepleCat righty also worked around designated hitter Sean Scanlon’s (Holy Cross) leadoff single and a walk to catcher Aukai Kea (Vanderbilt) to begin the fourth,

The Navs were able to break the shutout bid with single runs in the sixth and seventh. Marot started the first run-scoring inning with a one-out walk, advanced to second on Kea’s grounder to second base and scored on Baker’s double to center.

In the visitors’ seventh, pinch hitters Conor Moriarty (Bowdoin) and Jackson Powers (Saint Anselm) were respectively walked and hit by a pitch to set the table, and the former scored when Marot reached on a fielding error on a ball hit to the right side.

North Shore’s relief pitching from the middle to the end of the game was outstanding, as the trio of Stefano Yozzo (Middlebury), Elliott Eaton (Princeton) and John Milewski (Lafayette) dealt four combined innings of scoreless, one-hit ball. Yozzo retired all six batters he faced before Eaton stranded two runners in his inning of work and Milewski struck out a pair in a hitless frame.

The Navs are back at Fraser Field on Saturday night to continue North Division play against the Sanford Mainers. First pitch is set for 5:05 p.m. In honor of the Independence Day holiday weekend, the Fraser concession stands will be offering dollar hot dogs at the game.