PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Berkshire Boys and Girls Club AAU boys sixth-grade basketball team is coming off a successful summer season in which it won five tournament championships throughout New England and Upstate New York.

 

The team includes players from the Pittsfield and Dalton area.

 

It won five tournaments in its own age group and went 1-2 in a seventh-/eighth-grade division, beating a team of seventh-graders from Connecticut.

 

The team’s greatest feat was defeating squads from Boston, Connecticut and Brooklyn, N.Y., to win its final tournament of the season, the BasketBull Summer Tip-Off.

 

Coach Michael Balcom credits the success of the program to the support of the staff at the Club and “Basketball Mom” Jackie B.