BREWSTER, Mass. — The Anglers don’t want to think too much about streaks. The days of their season-worst five-game skid are over, after Junior Lauaki (Georgia) ended them with one swing Thursday against Bourne. And A’s manager Dennis Cook says he never thinks much about the previous day’s result, anyways. Streaks will come and go. He just wants to see his team compete.

But the Brewster Whitecaps’ recent results are hard to ignore. Entering Friday’s contest with the A’s, they’d gone a week without a loss, winning five games and tying one. While the Anglers had lost five of their last six, Brewster hadn’t lost since July 9.

While the Whitecaps extended that streak to seven Friday, it wasn’t all bad for Chatham. The Anglers (11-14-3, East) tied Brewster (18-7-3, East) 4-4 at Stony Brook Field. The A’s pounced for two runs in the first to take an early lead, but Brewster scored three in the sixth to knot the game at four. The game was called after seven innings due to darkness.

“I thought we let them off the hook a couple times offensively,” Cook said postgame. “We had multiple opportunities to blow that game open, and we didn't.”

One of those opportunities came in the first. The Anglers loaded the bases with no outs in the first off of Brewster starter Schuyler Sandford (Florida), and cashed in to some extent.

Rob Rispoli (UConn) walked, Bino Watters (LSU) singled and Lauaki walked. Ty Peeples (Florida State) drove in the game’s first run with another walk, and Harlin Hovater (Mississippi State) drove in another on — you guessed it — yet another walk.

That was all Chatham could muster in the first frame, though. In his first Anglers at-bat, Ty Mainolfi (Boston College) ripped a ground ball to short, and although Brewster retired Hovater easily at second, Mainolfi appeared to beat out the throw to first, allowing Lauaki to score.

But the umpires then deemed Hovater interfered with the throw at second, and Mainolfi was called out at first. The Anglers had to settle for two runs instead of three.

They nearly got that third run in the second, putting runners on the corners again. Eddie Marshall (Florida) led off with a walk, then Rispoli reached the same way — Sandford’s fifth and sixth walks in just two innings of work. Watters grounded into a fielder’s choice before Lauaki struck out to end the inning.

“He walked a lot of guys, and we let him off the hook in the second inning,” Cook said of Sandford. “But he walked the guys, and we got to take advantage of that.”

Those squandered opportunities didn’t seem to bother Chatham starter Christian Chatterton (Auburn) much early on. He faced the minimum in the first inning, and allowed two baserunners in his first two innings of work.

But he ran into some trouble in the third. Chatterton allowed a single and two walks to load the bases with one out. He punched out Jacob Lee (VCU) to get an important second out, but walked Cash Strayer (Florida) on four pitches to plate Brewster’s first run of the ballgame. Chatterton kept the damage relatively minimal, though, forcing an inning-ending groundout.

Chatham provided some insurance in the top of the fourth. Marshall walked again, then Rispoli — a night away from starting at second base for the CCBL’s East All-Stars — hammered a double into the right-center field gap to score Marshall. The A’s tacked on another run in the fifth after Hovater drove in Howe with a sacrifice fly.

Wyatt Nadeau (Vanderbilt) took over on the mound in the bottom of the frame, and struck out two of the first three batters he faced in the fourth. He also turned in another dominant frame in the fifth, striking out another three batters to preserve the Anglers' three-run advantage.

“I thought we pitched pretty good out of the bullpen,” Cook said.

Yet, once Nadeau hit Owen Jenkins (Kentucky) to lead off the sixth, his night was over. Chatham had previously lost control of a couple games when it turned to its bullpen, especially when it left a reliever in for too long. Cook wasn’t going to take a chance after allowing a leadoff runner, so he went to Kenan Elarton (Houston Christian).

But Elarton couldn’t provide an answer. He gave up hits to the first two batters he faced, which plated Jenkins and made it a 4-2 game. His night ended soon after, when he walked Daniel to load the bases.

Noah Allen (Alabama) entered the game, and got Jay Abernathy (Oklahoma) to chop a ground ball to first. Lauaki threw out the lead runner at home, but Hovater’s return throw hit Abernathy in the back of the head and skipped away. As Abernathy writhed in pain on the first-base line, Lauaki threw back home trying to catch Brody DeLamielleure (Florida State), but that throw went to the backstop.

Two runs scored on the play, but Abernathy’s injury was a far greater concern. The game was delayed for about 15 minutes as he was helped off the field. The two teams agreed to continue play, but just for one more inning as the skies darkened.

The game continued with a Laskofski groundout, ending what was left of the sixth.

Chatham squandered a leadoff Watters single in the seventh, too. Brewster threatened a bit more, putting two straight runners on to lead off the frame. But Allen provided a crucial strikeout with the bases loaded and one out, ending the game on level terms.

Now, the A’s hit the break on a more positive note. After their previous five-game losing streak, two games unbeaten is something they’ll take any day. Although Cook thought his team could’ve gotten just a bit more.

“I think the kids competed well tonight. It was just one of those games where we couldn't get the big two-out hit.” Cook said, then paused for a second to correct himself. “Well, Rob got the big two-out hit.

“But we had them on the ropes, and we just kind of let them off the ropes.”