HARTFORD, Vt. -- Owen Arias hit a two-run single in the top of the 10th inning to lead the North Adams SteepleCats to a 9-8 win over the Upper Valley Nighthawks in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

 

Arias went 2-for-5 in an 11-hit attack for the SteepleCats.

 

Cuyler Baxter, Billy Howard and Gabriel Natividad also each had a pair of hits.

 

North Adams scored four times in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game, 6-6, and force extra innings.

 

Four North Adams pitchers combined to give up five earned runs to earn the win on the mound.

 

Nicholas Nobel threw two innings in relief to get the win. Thomas Sullivan pitched one scoreless inning in the 10th to get the save.

 

North Adams (19-21) is home on Monday to face Keene, N.H., at Joe Wolfe Field.