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Baseball in the Berkshires Museum Offers Red Sox,Yankees Items this Weekend| 12:57PM / Wednesday, January 16, 2019 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass, -- The Yankee-Red Sox rivalry continues this weekend at the Baseball in the Berkshires Museum at the Berkshire Mall. Long-time Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia and Yankee Troy Tulowitzki bats will be on display this weekend. These bats are exact replicas of the bats that these two All-Stars use. Touch, hold and get your picture taken with these the bats. The museum is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. 0 Comments
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Berkshire Blaze Travel Softball Tryouts Friday and SaturdayCommunity submission,
10:45AM / Monday, January 07, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Berkshire Blaze travel softball program will hold tryouts this week for the 14-and-under and 16-and-underage groups. Two days of tryouts will be hosted by The Infield at 10 Lyman St. On Friday Jan. 11, pitchers and cathchers will try out from 7 to 7:30 p.m., and fielding and hitting tryouts will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. On Saturday, pitchers and catchers will try out from 1 to 1:30 p.m., and fielding and hitting will be from 1:30 to 3:30. Sign up on the team's Facebook page check in when you arrive. Tryouts are being held in January to establish the teams in order to build schedules and purchase uniforms and equipment 0 Comments
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2018 in Review: Pittsfield Baseball, Softball Programs Dominate Spring, SummerBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Sports
07:46AM / Sunday, December 30, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Pittsfield's baseball roots go back to the 18th century. In 2018, the Shire City was a power in baseball and softball. At the youth and high school levels, Pittsfield showed diamond dominance that easily was the story of the year in local sports. For the second year in a row, the Taconic baseball team won a Western Mass Championship and returned to the state finals. This time around, in the D3 final, Taconic came up a little short but considering all the seniors who graduated from the state title team the year before, it made for a two-year run of which few schools can boast. Meanwhile, the Pittsfield High softball team made its own 0 Comments
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Three Inducted into Pittsfield Hoop Club Hall of FameiBerkshires.com Sports,
05:20AM / Monday, December 24, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Three new members Friday were inducted into the Pittsfield Hoop Club Hall of Fame at the Boys and Girls Club. The club recognized Jim McNeice, Brendan Burke and Tyrone Gadson in a ceremony held between the Pittsfield and Taconic varsity boys basketball games. McNeice, a graduate of the former St. Joseph High School, was honored for his decades of commitment to local youth, principally at the Pittsfield CYC, where he served as executive director and helped found the city’s first youth girls basketball program. McNeice also helped found the city’s Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program and co-chaired the local United Way Capital 0 Comments
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Dalton Senior Center Cuts Ribbon on New Exercise ParkBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
07:19AM / Sunday, December 02, 2018 | |
The hope is that many will use the equipment with friends to make exercise fun. DALTON, Mass. — The Senior Center has made it a bit easier for people to be healthy and fit even later in life. Through a grant from AARP, a half-dozen pieces of outdoor workout equipment have been installed on the property. The hope is to make it easier for the seniors to get moderate workouts alongside their peers to stay healthier. "The purpose of this park is to make exercise fun. When activities are fun, people are more likely to engage in them more often. They bring their friends to share in the fun with them and they are more likely to spend more time doing fun things 1 Comment
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Unified Sports' Growth Evidenced at Western Mass JamboreeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
02:32AM / Tuesday, November 20, 2018 | |
 CHICOPEE, Mass. — Eight years ago, Special Olympics Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association teamed up to offer Unified sports. Seven high schools statewide started track and field teams. On Monday afternoon at Chicopee Comp, eight schools in Western Massachusetts alone fielded teams in the state's second Unified sport, basketball. "We knew that it would come," Special Olympics' Kathleen Lutz said as the season-ending Western Mass Unified Basketball Jamboree went on around her. "Once school districts see it, it's just an amazing offering for their whole student body. "To bring this experience, 1 Comment
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Wahconah Alum, Olympic Team Coach, Addresses Student AssemblyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:54AM / Friday, November 09, 2018 | |
DALTON, Mass. — One in a long line of successful Wahconah Regional High School athletes was back at the school Thursday to tell the student body to relish their failures. "Surround yourself in strength," was the theme of Matt Whitcomb, a state high school champion, 1996 Wahconah grad and, more recently, coach on the U.S. Women's Cross Country Ski team that won the nation's first-ever Nordic gold medal at the 2018 Olympic Games. Whitcomb told the students that no matter what they were doing — whether athletics, academics or some other pursuit — the secret to success is to surround yourself with successful people and feed on 0 Comments
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Ladley Remembered for Fight, Family, Fealty to Berkshire County Sports CommunityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
10:08AM / Thursday, November 01, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Ed Ladley was remembered Wednesday evening as a giant of the Berkshire County sporting community. The New England Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, legendary Wahconah boys basketball coach and educator died on Wednesday. And as word of his passing got around the county coaching fraternity, one word was on everyone's lips: competitor. "Even when his son, Timmy, played for me my first year at Pittsfield, I remember him yelling at his players because Timmy had five 3s against Wahconah," said Ron Wojcik, now the girls basketball coach at Hoosac Valley. "Timmy, at the time, was one of our best if not our best player, and [Ed 4 Comments
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Pittsfield's Wright Honored by League, Scores in Springfield's Tourney Win| 09:30PM / Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | |
 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Reigning New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Co-Offensive Athlete of the Week Amanda Wright Tuesday scored a goal to help the Springfield College women's soccer team to a 3-1 win over Wheaton in the first round of the NEWMAC tournament. Wright, a graduate of Pittsfield High School, scored her ninth goal of the season in the 58th minute to give the Pride a 2-0 lead at the time. Springfield moves on to play Emerson on Thursday in the league semi-finals. On Monday, Wright, a Springfield senior, was recognized for her performance the week prior. Wright was instrumental in a pair of NEWMAC victories for the Pride last 0 Comments
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Baseball in the Berkshires Offers STEM Programming| 09:26PM / Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass. -- STEM programming is coming to the Baseball in the Berkshires Museum. The exhibit at the Berkshire Mall will present monthly programs on science, technology, engineering and math starting Saturday, Nov. 3, from 1-2 p.m. for all ages. The first program is "The Crack of the Bat." Learn how a bat is made. Physics, engineering, technology, mathematics and safety all have a part. Using the bats of Shoeless Joe, The "Babe", Jackie, Miggy, "Big Papi," Dustin, Mookie and Judge, discover how they cracked these problems. 0 Comments
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