Navigators roll past Seacoast

Behind 5 2/3 innings of shutout pitching from Jamie Lauria (Mercyhurst), the North Shore Navigators won for the sixth time in eight games, defeating the Seacoast Mavericks, 7-0, Friday night at Fraser Field.
The win marked the Navs’ 32d of the summer, tying a franchise record set in 2012. Lauria earned the first win of his Navigators career, striking out a season-high seven.
After loading the bases with nobody out in the second against Seacoast starter Ryan Ricci, the Navs took a 2-0 lead on a very rare play.
Michael Rizzitello (Dowling) and MacDaniel Singleton (Northern Essex CC) each beat out infield singles before Giovanni Dingcong (St. Thomas Aquinas) walked. Sheldon Brogden (Franklin Pierce) lifted a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Rizzitello with the first run of the game on a close play. Rizzitello collided with Mavs’ catcher Matt Mayo, and as the ball rolled out of his glove and toward the backstop, Singleton advanced home to make it 2-0.
The Navs added two runs in the fourth as Singleton led off with a bunt single, stole second, and scored on a single to right from Dingcong.
After Brogden laid down his first of two bunt singles in as many innings, shortstop Brandon Fischer (St. Thomas Aquinas) scored his college teammate by placing a seeing-eye single through the right side.
A three-run eighth against Seacoast reliever Mitchell Page (UMass) concluded the scoring in what turned out to be the Navs’ sixth shutout of the season.
Fischer tripled to deep left-center field to lead off and scored on an Chad Martin’s (Bowdoin) single. The triple marked Fischer’s sixth of the season, tying a FCBL all-time record.
Page issued a bases-loaded walk to Dingcong and also hit Brogden with a pitch, forcing two more runs in for the Navs.The Navs return to Fraser Field to face the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks on Saturday at 6 p.m., their final home game of the regular season.