LYNN – Opening Night, 2009, was deemed a success for the North Shore Navigators Thursday.With a crowd of about 800 (according to a cursory estimate by owner Phil Rosenfield), a strong performance on the mound by Malden native Jared Freni, a 9-5 New England Collegiate Baseball League victory over the Sanford Mainers, and a picture-perfect evening, Rosenfield and general manager Peter Delani were in a pretty jovial mood.”I think for a first night, I’m pretty pleased,” said Rosenfield, who enters his second season as the Navs’ owner.Click here for a photo gallery.”You want to see people here,” said Rosenfield, who figures somewhere around 1,000 fans per night would be a realistic break-even figure. “You see 200 people, and it’s empty. But the more people here, it adds electricity to the place. People react to the pitches and the hits, and it gives the players the thrill of playing in front of a good crowd.”This season, in an effort to attract people to the park, Delani has devised a 50-50 plan where each home date is designated a community night, with half the proceeds spread among various organizations in that town. And Rosenfield has already seen where some of the towns appreciate the arrangement.”You’d be amazed,” he said. “We’ve had people come up to us who have said with the economy the way it is, that money’s coming in handy.”Delani, the former baseball coach at Masconomet, was happy with the opening-night crowd as well.”We did well,” he said. “We had a lot of advance sales, and a pretty good walk-up crowd. But you have to figure school’s still in session, there are proms, graduations, class nights ? once all that’s over with, I think the crowds will come.”The Navigators have three more games in this current homestand: tonight against Lowell (which is Topsfield night); Saturday against the Newport Gulls (Melrose night) and Monday against the Danbury Westerners (Marblehead night).Delani says the advance sales for both Marblehead and Melrose nights have been well beyond 1,000.”I think we’re as organized as we can possibly be at this point,” Delani said. “We’re off to a good start.”Freni, who plays for UMass and played his high school ball for Malden Catholic, pitched six scoreless innings. The score was 9-1 before the Mainers scored four more in the ninth.