MONTPELIER, Vt. (July 11, 2025) 一 The North Shore Navigators came back from a rare three-day break in their New England Collegiate Baseball League schedule to pitch their first shutout of the summer, defeating the host Vermont Mountaineers 3-0 on Friday night at Montpelier Recreation Field.
North Shore snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 10-17 on the summer as it traded places in the North Division standings with Vermont, which has fallen to 10-19 over the course of a six-game skid.
Left fielder Jesse Jaconski (Penn State) paced the Navs with his first three-hit game of the summer, going 3-for-3 with a double, RBI and run scored. Right fielder Jackson Powers (Saint Anselm), catcher Aidan Sengenberger (Seton Hall) and second baseman Simmi Whitehill (Monmouth) also recorded multi-hit games.
Powers and Whitehill each recorded an RBI for North Shore, which scored single runs in the second, third and fifth innings and finished one off its season-high with 12 hits as a team in the victory.
Liam Kinneen (Princeton) pitched five innings of three-hit ball en route to his first win of the summer. The Lexington native struck out four. Sean Zaslaw (Bryant) and Zach Kittrell (Alabama) covered two innings apiece in relief, allowing just one combined hit while striking out nine. Kitrell posted his first save.
The North Shore offense did well to manufacture its early offense, taking a 3-0 lead that Kinneen held up across his five scoreless innings. In the second, Jaconski ripped a leadoff double into the left-center field gap, advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Powers and scored on Whitehill’s two-out knock through the right side.
Third baseman Davis Baker (Penn) drew a leadoff walk to get the Navs going in the third. After Kea sacrificed Baker over to second, Jaconski’s single off the pitcher put runners at the corners. Powers then provided the big hit of the frame, driving a two-out RBI single into right to lift North Shore at 2-0.
The visitors added another insurance run in the fifth. Kea smoked a leadoff double to left-center and advanced on a throwing error following first baseman Marc Willi’s (UMass) pop fly before scoring on Jaconski’s sacrifice fly to right.
Kinneen stranded baserunners in all five of his innings and six in total, including Vermont second baseman Foster Apple (Stetson) following a two-out triple in the second. He struck out two in that frame and then worked out of a two-on, one-out jam with a ground ball and fly in the fourth.
North Shore’s trio of pitchers allowed just four hits, with only one coming after the fourth inning. Zaslaw struck out three while dealing back-to-back 1-2-3 frames in the sixth and seventh, remaining unscored upon across his 9.2 innings of work this summer.
Kittrell recorded five of his six outs by way of the strikeout, stranding a pair by fanning the side in the eighth and erasing Apple’s one-out walk in the ninth. Center fielder Sam Parks (Stonehill) made a sliding catch on Vermont catcher Bennett Shealor’s (Gardner-Webb) fly to end the game.
First baseman Jaylen Hernandez (Winthrop) accounted for half of Vermont’s offense on a 2-for-3 night, while starter Luke Deschenes (Seton Hill) took the loss after allowing three runs on nine North Shore hits over the first five innings.
The Navs continue their busy weekend with a stop back home at Fraser Field to host the Mystic Schooners on Saturday at 5:05 p.m.