LYNN — The North Shore Navigators and the Seacoast Mavericks combined to score 18 runs Sunday, but it was the Mavericks who eked out the 10-8 win.
The Navs’ biggest inning was the fifth, when, trailing 8-2, they scored five runs to cut Seacoast’s lead to one run. Riley Herold (Nebraska-Omaha) knocked home two runs with a bases-loaded, two-out double.
An inning later, the Navs tied the game up at 8 but could have had more. They had the bases loaded to start the inning, and Colby Maiola (UMass Lowell) cracked a single to right field that scored a run.
Joey Pena (St. Thomas Aquinas), MacDaniel Singleton (Salem State), and Nick DiBenedetto (Trinity College) combined to go 4-for-9, scoring six runs. They also combined to walk five times, and Singleton and DiBenedetto each knocked in a run.
Sean O’Neill (Brandeis University) had the best performance. The Reading native pitched three innings, struck out two and his lone blemish was a home run to Alvin Swoope.
On Saturday, the Navs struggled to get anything going on offense, falling 4-1 to Seacoast at Fraser Field.
Speros Varinos returned to the Navigators’ staff, fanning six over six innings and allowing just two hits and two unearned runs. Brian Burke allowed just one hit in his three innings of relief, but that one hit was a solo home run.
The Navigators will return to action Tuesday at home against the Torrington Titans at Fraser Field (7 p.m.)
