SteepleCats Fall in Extra Innings at North Shore

iBerkshires.com Sports08:31PM / Wednesday, July 08, 2026Print Story | Email Story

LYNN, Mass. – Hudson Ellis hit an infield single in the bottom of the eighth to break a 3-3 tie and send the North Shore Navigators to a 4-3 win over the SteepleCats in the first half of a double-header in the New England Collegiate Baseball League on Wednesday.

Hunter Kingsbury drove in two runs for Lynn, which made the most of its three hits.

Alex Barrist was 2-for-3 and scored twice for North Adams, which got an RBI double from Chris Diaz.

The SteepleCats used four pitchers in the loss. David Johnson started and allowed two runs in 4 and a third innings on the mound.

North Adams (7-19) played the Navigators (13-13) in the second half of the double-header later Tuesday evening.

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Q&A with State Representative Challenger Andrew Fitch

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:01AM / Sunday, August 23, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On Sept. 1, voters in the First Berkshire District will decide whether they want to send a new representative to Beacon Hill in Boston.

Andrew Fitch, currently a city councilor in the district's largest municipality — and the commonwealth's smallest city — is challenging former North Adams Mayor John Barrett III, who won the First Berkshire seat in a 2017 special election, in the Democratic Party primary.

There is no Republican on the primary ballot for the First Berkshire seat so the primary will effectively be the election for the seat.

The two candidates met for their only debate on Aug. 13 at Williams College. iBerkshires.com reached out to both candidates to follow up on some of the points raised in the debate and get their thoughts on some other issues facing the district.

Below are excerpts from a conversation with challenger Andrew Fitch:

Question: From the very beginning, you talked about the campaign as a listening experience, and this week you're continuing that with the bike tour …

Andrew Fitch: Knocking on doors that have never been knocked on before. … I was riding through, I believe it was Hinsdale coming into Windsor, and they started to yell at me, 'No!' And then the guy was like, 'Wait a second. That's Andrew Fitch.' They actually knew who I was, and they were actually wanting to chat with me.

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