Cahill to return as Navigators manager

North Shore Navigators General Manager Bill Terlecky announced Monday that Jon Cahill will return to manage the Navigators for the 2015 season. The announcement comes just weeks after Cahill was named to the Peabody High School Hall of Fame.?We are extremely excited to have Jon back at the helm of this ballclub,” said Terlecky. “Jon is a proven leader on and off the field and we are confident that he is the right person to manage our team as we strive to bring a championship back home to Fraser Field.”Cahill?s Navigators struggled in the early part of the 2014 season but made a late postseason run before eventually falling a half-game short of the playoffs, despite winning 8 of their last 10 games. They finished 26-29, in third place in the East Division.?I am very excited to return to the Navigators for another season,” said Cahill. “We fell short of our goal this season but we will come back ready to compete for the FCBL title in 2015.”Cahill, born and raised in Peabody, graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in 2001. At UMass Lowell, Cahill played four years of baseball, where he was part of the 2001 Riverhawks team that reached the Division II Collegiate World Series for the first time in school history. Cahill was also inducted into the UMass Lowell Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008.Upon graduation, Cahill signed as an undrafted free agent infielder with the Los Angeles Angels organization, where he spent three seasons reaching as high as Double-A.