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National Honor, Continued Strong Starts Highlight Navs in College Baseball![]() LYNN, Mass. — Here are the latest college baseball highlights for incoming North Shore Navigators players: After earning the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Division 3 National Hitter of the Week honor last week, Jack Gold (Pomona-Pitzer) continued his torrid offensive pace with a 5-for-10 weekend, three RBI and five runs scored to help the Sagehens take two of three games from nearby Tufts. He had two extra-base hits during the series, including his nation-leading 10th home run of the season in Sunday's 10-5 win. Gold has a .481 average and the fourth-best slugging percentage in the country at 1.196 through 17 games. It was another successful weekend for Jesse Jaconski (Penn State) in a Big Ten series victory. The North Shore returnee had two hits in each of the Nittany Lions' games against Northwestern, recording a double and a triple in an 11-2 Friday before contributing his fifth homer during a 10-7 triumph the following day. For the season, Jaconski is now Penn State's third-leading RBI man with 18. He enters the new week riding a streak of four straight multi-hit games. The Navigators’ incoming Louisiana duo had a great week. Brooks Wright continued a productive start to his freshman season in the outfield, going 9-for-19 with two doubles, a triple, three RBI and four runs scored in five games. Wright posted three-hit efforts against McNeese and No. 21 Troy, coming off the bench for a 3-for-3 day in the latter game, an 18-14 Sunday win. He is hitting .333 with three doubles, a triple and 14 RBI on the season, having appeared in 20 of a possible 21 games and started 15 of those. Ragin' Cajuns classmate Owen Galt had the best game of his young career on Sunday. Making his eighth start of the season, Galt was 3-for-5 with two runs scored. Infield newcomer Todd Clay (UAB) moved his hitting streak to 10 games following a 2-for-3 performance with an RBI on Sunday against Middle Tennessee. His recent play also included a hit and a run scored against Alabama in a midweek game. Clay remains the second-leading hitter in the American Athletic Conference with a .455 average and has a 1.112 OPS through 20 games. Sam Parks (Stonehill) hit two triples and drove in five in the Skyhawks' 23-8 Sunday win at Norfolk State, helping to finish off a series sweep to start Northeast Conference play. The center fielder was 4-for-9 and scored seven runs on the weekend after going 3-for-8 with a homer and three runs scored across a two-game midweek set against VMI. Parks continued to be an on-base machine, drawing 12 walks while striking out just three times over the five games. Another week, another solid showing for Ethan Wilson and Ben Rehkow of the Winthrop Eagles. In the box, Wilson added his fifth homer of the season in a 9-2 Sunday victory over Presbyterian. He is now slugging .598 on the season, as he has 14 extra base hits in the 21 games he has played. On the mound, Rehkow has been lights out and that continued this week. The Eagles beat Presbyterian on Saturday as well, and the right-hander went two scoreless innings in the victory. He now has a 0.96 ERA on the season as he has only allowed a single run in 9.1. Also on the mound, it was a huge week for Ryan Mealy (Monmouth), whose Hawks team went 5-0. The righty had two strong appearances, including throwing four scoreless innings on Saturday against Georgetown. He also worked three innings of two-run baseball against Villanova on Wednesday. Mealy also tallied two strikeouts on Wednesday and five more on Saturday, upping his season total to 14 in 16.2 innings. Oisin Lee (Notre Dame) followed up his collegiate debut against Wake Forest with two more shutout, one-inning appearances against Winthrop and Clemson, striking out five of the six batters he faced. Lee has now allowed just one hit through his three outings, all scoreless, for the Fighting Irish. Cole Yennaco (Merrimack) put an emphatic finish on the Warriors’ second straight MAAC series victory, pitching a 1-2-3 ninth inning with two strikeouts to complete a 9-5 Sunday win over Canisius. Sean Zaslaw (Bryant) fired 2.2 innings of shutout, two-hit ball with three strikeouts on Sunday against Brown. Zaslaw has been a key long reliever for the Bulldogs, working longer than an inning in each of his last two outings. The Navigators will return to historic Fraser Field and the NECBL for their 18th summer collegiate season in 2025, with first pitch set for Tuesday, June 3 against the Northern Division rival Upper Valley Nighthawks. Stay up to date on the latest Navs news by visiting nsnavs.com and following the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. |
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