North Shore Phillies win NSBL playoff opener

Matt Sucharewicz singled in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh as the North Shore Phillies opened the North Shore Baseball League playoffs with a 7-6 victory over the Newburyport Nationals at Breed on Sunday.The Phillies and Nationals continue the best-of-three series with game two today (6) at Groveland Pines.Sunday, Mario Padovani pitched a scoreless top of the seventh to preserve a 6-6 tie.In the bottom of the frame, player-manager Chris Carroll led off with a single to right. Chris Blydell singled up the middle and Sucharewicz hit the game-winning single on the first pitch he saw.Sucharewicz finished 4-4 with a three-run homer and a double. Blydell hit a solo homer in the bottom of the first.Cory Moore drew the start and pitched 3.2 innings. Padovani went the rest of the way and got the win.Beverly 6, S?scott Sox 1At Beverly High, Teghan Malionek hit an RBI single for the lone Swampscott run, and Junior Santos pitched a complete game. Beverly scored all its runs in the second inning.The teams resume their best-of-three series today at Swampscott Middle School (7:30).Peabody Champions 10, Bistany 0At Twi Field, Champions won in six innings due to the 10-run rule. Champions scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth.The teams play game two of their best-of-three series tonight at Shawsheen Park in Lawrence (8).Sunday, Tyler Leavitt got the complete-game win (7 K, 2 H) while the offense was supplied by Zach Keenan (3 H, 4 RBI), Chad Martin (HR), Andrew O?Neil (2 H, 1 R, 1 SB) and Mark Shorey (2 R, 1 SB, RBI double).