Upper Valley Sweeps SteepleCats in NECBL Playoffs
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Andrew Walker went 2-for-5 with a double Thursday to lead the Upper Valley Nighthawks to a 7-3 win over the North Adams SteepleCats and a sweep of their best-of-three New England Collegiate Baseball League playoff series.
Three Upper Valley pitchers combined to strike out 11 SteepleCats. Zane Kmietek had three of those strikeouts in 2-2/3 innings of relief work to earn the win.
Charles Middleton went 2-for-5 with an RBI for North Adams, which got an RBI from JuJuan Lacewell-Carson.
Four pitchers combined to allow four earned runs for North Adams, which finishes the summer with a record of 22-19-2.