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Pittsfield Americans Blast Rutland to Stay Alive in SectionalBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
07:24PM / Thursday, July 21, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – For the Major Leaguers, the Home Run Derby was on Monday. The Pittsfield American Division Little Leaguers did their version on Thursday. Mason Daley, Sebastian Herrera and Eli Kristenson each homered, and the Americans pounded out five extra base hits in a 12-1, four-inning win over Rutland in a Section 1 tournament elimination game. Pittsfield American earns a return trip Friday to Leominster to play in the sectional’s championship round. The Americans have to win on Friday to face a winner-take-all championship game on Saturday afternoon back at Deming Park. The Pittsfield All-Stars made the most of their first game on their 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Nationals Win Jimmy Fund ClassicBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
11:20PM / Wednesday, July 20, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Danny Hoffman went 2-for-5 with a triple and three RBIs Wednesday to lead the Pittsfield Nationals to a 16-3 win over Dalton-Hinsdale in the championship game of the 31t John Codey Jimmy Fund Classic. It was a big night all around for the Nationals, who also claimed the tournament’s prize for the highest fund-raising team. And Pittsfield NL’s Kai Laframboise was named the top individual fund-raiser for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The Nats wasted no time taking control of the title game, scoring six runs in the top of the first inning. Laframboise had a single, and Hoffman hit a two-run triple to right and scored on an 0 Comments
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Longmeadow 11-Year-Olds Top Pittsfield American in Sectional Title GameBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
10:23PM / Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | |
 LONGMEADOW, Mass. – The Longmeadow Little League 11-year-old All-Stars Tuesday pounded out 12 hits in three innings to earn a 17-3 win over the Pittsfield Americans in the Section 1 Championship Game at Strople Field. The host and designated home team did most of its damage in the second inning, when it sent 15 hitters to the plate and scored 10 runs to build a commanding 15-1 advantage. The win gave Longmeadow two victories in three days over the Americans to come out of the losers bracket and win the double-elmination tournament and a berth in next week’s state championship bracket. “Hats off to that team,” Pittsfield Manager B.J. Jefferson 0 Comments
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12th Annual Dalton CRA Softball Wraps UpBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
08:33PM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
 DALTON, Mass. – Of the four age groups at the 12th annual CRA Softball Tournament, just one was won by a team from outside Berkshire County. But even that team had a Berkshires flavor. Drury High School junior Brooke Bishop went 4-for-4 with an RBI triple and three runs scored Sunday to lead the Brunswick, N.Y., Blitz 16-and-under team to an 8-6 win over the Pittsfield-based Mass Destruction in the tournament finale. Bishop said her association with the Troy area team began a couple of summers ago out of necessity. “I used to play for [Adams-Cheshire-Savoy], but two years ago, when COVID happened, they weren’t playing at the time,” Bishop 0 Comments
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Pittsfield American 11s Forced to Go on Road in Sectional Title BidBy Brian Rhodes, iBerkshires.com Sports
08:30PM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Little League American Division 11-year-old All-Stars lost its first game of the state sectional tournament on Sunday, losing to Longmeadow in five innings with a score of 3-6. Now, they face a do-or-die game for all the marbles on Monday night. Kydd Kearns was the lone scorer of the first inning for Pittsfield American, scoring a run early in the top of the inning and putting the team up 1-0 to start the game. Longmeadow, however, quickly answered back in the bottom of the first, with the score tied at 1-1 to end the inning. Both teams were scoreless in the second inning, thanks in part to the pitching of Cooper Reed, who struck 0 Comments
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ACS 10U Team Wins Dalton CRA TitleBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
06:10PM / Saturday, July 16, 2022 | |
 DALTON, Mass. – Ava Jigiello tripled and drove in three runs Saturday as the Adams-Cheshire-Savoy Swat 10-and-under travel team defeated the Berkshire Force, 15-6, to claim the first championship of the weekend at the 12th annual Dalton CRA Invitational Softball Tournament. Olivia Archembault struck out four in two innings of work to pick up the win in the come-from-behind victory that was cut to three innings due to the tournament’s time rule. Yesterday marked the second day of the three-day tournament. On Sunday, three more age group championships will be decided with finals in the 12U Division (3:30 p.m.), 14U Division (3 p.m.) and 16U (4:45 0 Comments
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Dalton CRA Softball Tournament Gets UnderwayBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
09:56PM / Friday, July 15, 2022 | |
 DALTON, Mass. – Julia Devoti went 2-for-3 with a home run and struck out five in three innings of work on Friday to lead the Berkshire Liberty 16-and-under travel softball team to a 14-2 win over the Greylock Thunder in the Dalton CRA Tournament. Seventeen teams in four age groups are participating in the three-day tournament that continues on Saturday morning at Pine Grove Park. Devoti and the South County-based Liberty got the upper hand in the tournament’s biggest division. Seven teams are vying for the title in the 16U division with six games today and six more on Sunday, culminating in the tournament’s final game, the age group championship at 0 Comments
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Pittsfield American 10s Win at Home; 11s One Win from Sectional TitleBy Brian Rhodes, iBerkshires.com Sports
09:18PM / Friday, July 15, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Little League American Division 10-year-old All-Stars scored 10 runs in the first inning en route to a 17-1 win over Leominster at Deming Park in its second game of the state sectional playoffs. Pittsfield held Leominster scoreless in the top of the first before scoring ten in the bottom of the frame, going through the batting order twice in the process. The defense then held Leominster to a single run in the second inning. Jake Mauth scored two of the team's runs in the first and ended up the leading scorer in the end, with four runs in four at bats. Mauth also got one out on defense off a line-drive catch. Brennan Lyon 0 Comments
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Strong Pitching Lifts Pittsfield American 11s in Sectional Tourney| 10:23PM / Thursday, July 14, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A quartet of pitchers led the Pittsfield Little League American Division 11-year-old All-Stars to an 8-4 win over Holden on Thursday in the first game of the state sectional playoffs at Deming Park. Starter Cooper Reed went 2 and one third innings with five strikeouts while allowing just one run on one hit. Mateo Fox then three of the four batters he faced in a strong inning of work. Bryce Hoff allowed two runs on two hits in 2 and a third innings before giving the ball to Matt Keegan, who retired the only batter he faced to end the game. Offensively, Pittsfield American had two big hits from Keegan, who drove in two runs on a first-inning 0 Comments
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Herrera, Pittsfield Americans Top Great Barrington in District FinalBy Stephen Dravis,
08:13PM / Thursday, July 14, 2022 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. – Sebastian Herrera provided some offensive highlights at this month’s Don Gleason District 1 Little League Championships. But it was his pitching that propelled the Pittsfield American Division 12-year-old All-Stars to a 13-0 win over Great Barrington in Thursday’s district title game. Herrera struck out 10 and allowed just one hit in four innings as Pittsfield American ended the game early via the mercy rule. He struck out the side in the fourth, ending the game on a called third strike with a runner on second after a walk and a pitch that got to the backstop. “He’s hard to hit,” Pittsfield American manager Ty 1 Comment
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