NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Nick Hunkele struck out 12 in a complete-game effort on the mound Sunday as the North Adams SteepleCats beat the North Shore Navigators, 1-0, in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

 

Hunkele scattered five hits and walked one over nine innings, lowering his earned run average to 5.21 this summer, as North Adams improved to 13-16.

 

J.T. Thompson hit a leadoff single and scored on Alex Mendes' RBI single in the eighth inning to break a scoreless tie.

 

North Adams is on the road Monday and Tuesday before coming home to face Upper Valley on Wednesady at Joe Wolfe Field.