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July 1, 2005 - Canadian American League (Can-Am)
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The North Shore Spirit was on fire Friday night as they downed the Quebec City Capitales 4-2 in game one of their doubleheader. Spirit's were high for the second game, but quickly turned sour as they fell to the Capitales.

In game one Alex Herrera carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning. Herrera (2-0) pitched 5 2/3 innings of two run, two hit baseball to pick up his second win in a Spirit uniform. The lefthander was five outs away from tossing the first no-hitter in North Shore Spirit team history. Herrera also extended his scoreless innings streak to 16 2/3 before Quebec pushed across a pair of runs in the sixth.

North Shore opened the scoring in the second. Consecutive singles by Garrett Weir and Eric Storey put runners on the corners with one out. Yuri Sanchez then delivered an RBI groundout that plated Weir with the games first run.

Vic Davilla put the Spirit up 2-0 in the third with an opposite field homerun, his eighth of the season. In the fourth, North Shore would tack on another thanks to doubles by Storey and Brian Macchi.

Quebec broke through against Herrera in the sixth. With one down, Benoit Emond drew a walk. Scalabrini then blooped a single to shallow left, breaking up the no-hit bid and putting runner on first and second. After Geoffrey Tomlinson was hit by a pitch, current CANAM league RBI leader Eddie Lantigua drove home Emond with an infield single. Bill Greenwell coaxed a bases loaded walk to cut the Spirit's lead to 3-2.

North Shore added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth. Macchi leadoff with a line drive single to center. Two batters later, Storey continued his big game with an RBI double to the gap in right center.

Game two was a whole different story for the Spirit. Behind a dominating pitching performance from Marcos Castillo and an offense firing on all cylinders, the Quebec City Capitales shutout the North Shore Spirit 8-0 to salvage of split of the doubleheader.

Castillo (1-0) went the distance for Quebec, allowing only seven hits while striking out four. The shutout was Castillo's first of the season. Greg Pleeter (1-1) pitched well for North Shore, but was saddled with the loss.

Quebec grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the second. After Pleeter issued back-to-back walks to start the inning, catcher Maxime Lamarche delivered an RBI single to right field.

In the fifth, Les Capitales exploded for five runs. A single and two walks loaded the bases with one out. Mark Comolli was summoned from the Spirit bullpen and he was rudely greeted by a Buck McNabb RBI base hit to right. Geoffrey Tomlinson, the CANAM league leading hitter, followed with a ringing single that was misplayed by North Shore

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