SteepleCats' Rally Falls Short in Regular Season FinaleiBerkshires.com Sports, 11:13AM / Thursday, July 31, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The North Adams SteepleCats rallied for five runs in the bottom of the nintn but dropped an 8-7 decision to the Bristol Blues in the New England Collegiate Baseball League regular season finale at Joe Wolfe Field on Wednesday.
Bristol pitcher Jordan Paradis got a fly ball out with the bases loaded to end the game and give the SteepleCats a 21-23 record to end the regular season.
North Adams had already secured the third seed in the NECBL North Division, and it will open the league playoffs at No. 2 Sanford, Maine, on Friday in the first game of a best-of-three series.
The Mainers will be at Joe Wolfe on Saturday evening for the second game of the series.
Gabriel Natividad went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI to lead a four-hit North Adams attack in Wednesday's game against the Blues.
The SteepleCats worked 13 walks in the game, which featured 11 pitchers.
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