Former NFL Player Shares Message on Overcoming AdversityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
06:20AM / Thursday, August 29, 2024 | |
 DALTON, Mass. – By any reasonable measure, Keith Willis has been a success in sports and in life. And the former NFL tight end probably inspired a little awe among the Wahconah High School student-athletes who filled the Nessacus Middle School auditorium on Wednesday evening. But he did not come to show off. He came to show those students how to be winners themselves. “How many think it’s cool that I played for five different NFL teams?” Willis said, asking for a show of hands from the youngsters. “It’s pretty cool, right? “You know what people don’t think about? That means I was cut five different >> Read More |
A Rare Bird: Koperniak Stands Out in Triple-ABy Frank Murtaugh, The Memphis (Tenn.) Flyer
06:00AM / Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | |
 MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- I’ve interviewed professional baseball players for more than two decades. There are talented players who, honestly, aren’t that interesting away from the diamond. They’re good ballplayers, and baseball is what they know. There are also very interesting baseball players who aren’t all that talented. Now and then, though, you find yourself in the home team’s dugout at AutoZone Park with a very good baseball player who has a very interesting story to share. Like the Memphis Redbirds’ top hitter this season, outfielder Matt Koperniak. That story? It began on Feb. 8, 1998, when Koperniak was born in London. (Koperniak played for >> Read More |
Millers, Thunder Win Berkshire Adult Baseball League Titles| 07:13AM / Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | |
 The Berkshire Thunder and GB Millers each swept their way to Berkshire Adult Baseball League titles over the weekend. At Wahconah Park on Sunday, the Thunder edged the Dalton Moneymakers, 6-5, to wrap up their best-of-three championship series in the 33-and-over division of the BABL. The Thunder, which won the opener, 6-1, on Saturday, got a strong pitching performance from three different players in Game 2. Joe Bateman, Cory Hillard and Seamus Morrison combined to allow just two earned runs in the title clincher. Hillard got the win with four innings of work in relief, scattering four hits and allowing all five runs -- three unearned as the Thunder committed >> Read More |
Berkshire Adult Baseball League Playoffs Continue Wednesday| 12:19PM / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Dalton Moneymakers and Tunnel City Freight will play Wednesday evening at Joe Wolfe Field in the rubber match of their Berkshire Adult Baseball League 33-and-over division semi-final. The Moneymakers last weekend rebounded from a 6-4 loss on Saturday to tie the best-of-three series at a game apiece with an 8-6 win. In the other half of the 33-year-old division bracket, the Berkshire Thunder edged the Pontoosuc Lake Monsters, 6-5, on Sunday at the American Legion Field in Dalton to take their semi-final series, 2-0. Jesus Lay went 3-for-3 with a triple, a double and a pair of RBIs in an 8-1 win for the Thunder in Game 1 of the series. In >> Read More |
Swampscott Ends Pittsfield Post 68's State Tourney RunBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
10:25PM / Wednesday, August 07, 2024 | |
 ROCHESTER, Mass. – After losing the first game of their trip to the American League State Championship tournament, the Pittsfield Post 68 Juniors battled to stay alive. After inclement weather on Tuesday forced the postponement of its game and raised the specter that their tournament experience would end prematurely, Post 68 fought to get on the field. After Swampscott scored five runs in the bottom of the second inning to take a four-run lead, Pittsfield battled back to tie Wednesday’s game. But the Post 57 Mariners managed to push a run across with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth and worked around a one-out error in the top of the seventh to >> Read More |
Pittsfield Post 68 Juniors Down Pembroke| 03:33PM / Monday, August 05, 2024 | |
 MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. – Matt Egan went 3-for-5 with a double on Monday to lead the Pittsfield Post 68 American Legion Juniors to an 11-5 win over Pembroke in the State Championship Tournament. The win keeps Pittsfield alive in the double-elinination tournament and gives it a chance to play on Tuesday afternoon for a berth in the state final. Jason Codey was 2-for-5 with three RBIs. Gavin O’Donnell was 2-for-5 with a double. And Connor Devine tripled in an 11-hit attack for Post 68. Egan, Colby Robb and David Wildgoose split time on the mound for Pittsfield. Egan struck out five and allowed one run in three innings of work. Wildgoose gave up a run in >> Read More |
Post 68 Juniors Survive, Advance at State Tournament| 04:12PM / Sunday, August 04, 2024 | |
 MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. – Derek Roy hit an RBI single with two out in the top of the eighth to give the Pittsfield Post 68 Juniors a one-run lead, and they held on for a 5-4 win over Sandwich to stay alive at the American Legion State Championship Tournament. Connor Kirchner hit a one-out triple to start the game-winning rally. Two batters later, Roy hit a 3-1 pitch to left center to drive in Kirchner and give Post 68 a 5-4 lead. Colby Robb stranded a runner at first in the bottom of the eighth to secure the win and send Pittsfield into Monday’s 1 p.m. game in the losers’ bracket of the double-elimination tournament at Middleborough High >> Read More |
Middleboro Edges Post 68 Juniors at State TourneyiBerkshires.com Sports,
10:36PM / Saturday, August 03, 2024 | |
 MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. – Brady Bouldry struck out nine and allowed three hits Saturday to lead the Middleboro Post 64 Juniors to a 2-0 win over Pittsfield Post 68 at the American Legion State Tournament. Bouldry went the distance on the mound, walking two, to earn the tournament hosts a date with Swampscott Post 57 on Sunday night in the winners’ bracket of the double-elimination tournament. Gavin O’Donnell tripled, and Ethan O’Donnell and Jason Codey each had a hit for Pittsfield. The O’Donnell brothers also split time on the mound, striking out eight, walking two and allowing one earned run. Post 68 plays Sandwich Post 188 on Sunday >> Read More |
Post 68 Juniors Earn Berth in State TournamentBy Leland Barnes, iBerkshires.com Sports
10:04PM / Thursday, August 01, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD , Mass. — An electric fourth inning from Jason Codey, Gavin O’Donnell, and Connor Devine Thursday gave the Pittsfield Post 68 Juniors a 10-0, mercy rule win over Wilbraham and a berth in the state championship tournament. Pittsfield's offense made a statement against Wilbraham with consecutive innings of extra base hits. The momentum was not on Wilbraham’s side, not being able to record many base runners until late in the game. Jason Codey was on his 'A' game, recording two extra base hits accounting for four of his team's pitching strikeouts. Matt Egan also shared time on the bump splitting the game. “We did >> Read More |
Berkshire Force 12-Year-Olds' Run Ends at World Series| 09:42PM / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | |
 FLORENCE, Ala. -- The Berkshire Force 12-and-under travel softball team ended its run at the Babe Ruth World Series the way it began: with a game against Davidson, N.C. Unfortunately for the Force, the second meeting went the other way as Davidson earned a 12-6 win on Tuesday to elimninate the Force in the tournament's consolation "Diamond Bracket." Davidson scored six runs in the top of the sixth inning to break open a tie game after the Force battled back from an early 5-0 deficit to tie the game twice. Berkshire scored four runs in the bottom of the third to get within a run and tied it when Kaylana Altman singled and scored in the fourth to make it >> Read More |
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