SteepleCats' Rally Falls Short in Regular Season Finale

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The North Adams SteepleCats rallied for five runs in the bottom of the nintn but dropped an 8-7 decision to the Bristol Blues in the New England Collegiate Baseball League regular season finale at Joe Wolfe Field on Wednesday.
 
Bristol pitcher Jordan Paradis got a fly ball out with the bases loaded to end the game and give the SteepleCats a 21-23 record to end the regular season.
 
North Adams had already secured the third seed in the NECBL North Division, and it will open the league playoffs at No. 2 Sanford, Maine, on Friday in the first game of a best-of-three series.
 
The Mainers will be at Joe Wolfe on Saturday evening for the second game of the series.
 
Gabriel Natividad went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI to lead a four-hit North Adams attack in Wednesday's game against the Blues.
 
The SteepleCats worked 13 walks in the game, which featured 11 pitchers.
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Downed Line Slows North Adams Traffic, Closes Restaurant

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Wire & Alarm Inspector Mitchell Meranti works to disconnect the line to get it out of the roadway. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A tractor-trailer truck took down an electrical line on State Street, closing the road for an hour and Grazie for several days. 
 
The incident occurred just past 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday as the daily rush hour was about to start. Northbound traffic was detoured at Hodges Cross Road and southbound traffic was allowed through, using the driveway of Automan Sam to get around the line. 
 
The line came down across both lanes until Wire and Alarm Inspector Mitchell Meranti was able to disconnect it from the pole outside Automan Sam's.
 
The automotive accessories store and the restaurant both lost power, but Grazie owner Matt Tatro described the damage as a "face punch" on Facebook
 
The line was pulled off the restaurant taking out the power, a new mini split air conditioning unit and sign. 
 
"We will need a couple days (hopefully) to get back in game day form.  We apologize that we will be closed tomorrow and Thursday to hopefully get the place back in shape. No power, internet, etc. All wires sheared off," the restaurant posted on its Facebook page. 
 
The restaurant's tentative reopening is Friday. 
 
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