Navs Beat Danbury in 2025 Finale

LYNN, Mass. 一 The North Shore Navigators concluded their 2025 New England Collegiate Baseball League season on a high note, defeating the Danbury Westerners 4-2 on Wednesday afternoon at Fraser Field.

North Shore finishes at 16-28, while Danbury is 20-22 and looks to remain alive in the South Division playoff race.

Catcher Aidan Sengenberger (Seton Hall) went 2-for-3 with an RBI, leading North Shore's seven-hit offensive attack which produced a single run in four of seven innings. Left fielder Alec Welshans (La Salle) got the scoring going with his first home run of the season to left field in the second.

Gus Magill (Cornell) was victorious in his first start of the summer, allowing just two runs on three hits while striking out four. After scoring runs in his first two plate appearances, Simmi Whitehill (Monmouth) moved from second base to the mound and fanned a pair across two shutout, two-hit frames to earn the save.

The Navs acted as the visiting team, as the game was originally scheduled to be played at Rogers Park in Danbury, Conn. After Westerners righty Will Rettig (Lafayette) retired the side 1-2-3 to start the game, Welshans opened the scoring on a first-pitch homer in the top of the second. 

Whitehill got North Shore going in the third, hitting a leadoff triple deep into the left-center field gap and scoring on a sacrifice fly by right fielder Sam Parks (Stonehill).

Magill opened with three scoreless and hitless innings and then worked out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the fourth, limiting Danbury to only a single run on right fielder Aidan Cohall's (FIU) sacrifice fly.

The Navs quickly got the run back in the fifth, as Whitehill drew a one-out walk, stole second and reached third on third baseman Davis Baker's (Penn) infield single before scoring on a fielding error on the same play. 

In the sixth, North Shore executed the hit-and-run to perfection to plate another run. Center fielder Nater Wachter (UConn) got the offense going with a one-out single to left and scored all the way from first on Sengenberger's liner through the right side into center.

Danbury made it a 4-2 game on center fielder Aidan Stern's (Trinity) RBI fielder's choice in the sixth. The damage was limited, though, as first baseman Marc Willi (UMass) and shortstop Jack Rickheim (Harvard) turned the grounder into a 3-6-5 double play by nabbing Cohall coming around third.

Whitehill also stranded the bases full in the seventh, striking out Danbury first baseman William Cook (Wright State) to end the game.