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Millers, Tunnel City Freight Claim BABL TitlesiBerkshires.com Sports,
03:48PM / Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Brian Rodriguez Sunday struck out eight hitters in four innings to lead the G.B. Millers to a 3-1 win and a 2-0 championship series sweep over the Berkshire Thunder in the 20-and-over division of the Berkshire Adult Baseball League. The Millers opened the series on Saturday with a 4-1 win over the Thunder at Memorial Field in Great Barrington. In the league's 33-and-over division, Tunnel City Freight swept the Dalton Moneymakers over the weekend by scores of 15-5 and 14-2. In the deciding game on Sunday at Joe Wolfe Field, Nolan Brassard went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs to lead a 10-hit attack for Tunnel City. Jonathan >> Read More |
Pittsfield Soap Box Derby Returns SaturdayCommunity submission,
10:15AM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Westside Legends will host its fourth annual Westside Sweet G Super Soap Box Derby on Saturday, Aug. 9, from noon to 4 p.m. with a rain date of Aug. 10. Check-in for racers starts at 11 a.m. at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Robbins Avenue. The event features a day of activities for the whole family. There will be three race classes: kids from 6-12, kids from 13-17, and an adult class, ages 18 and older. Trophies will be presented in each division. The racers will “zoom” down Robbins Avenue, and the finish line will be at Southern Avenue. Inspired by soap box races in Pittsfield’s West Side during the 1960s, >> Read More |
Pedal N Plod Biathlon Returns to Adams, CheshireiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:20PM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. -- Pittsfield's Kellie Harrington and Eric Harrington Sunday were the top two individuals when the Pedal N Plod biathlon returned to North Berkshire. Eric Harrington was the first across the finish line in the Iron Male division, completing the 4.4-mile run and 22-mile bicycling course in 1 hour, 20 minutes, 18.72 seconds. Kellie Harrington won the Iron Female division with a time of 1:35:05.13. Eric Harrington was just more than a minute ahead of runner-up Matt Rabasco (1:21:20.79). He was 31 seconds behind Rabasco at the end of the running portion and still trailed at the completion of the first 11-mile loop of the bike race but finished strong >> Read More |
Q&A: Local Umpire Works Little League World Series International QualiferBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Saturday, August 02, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Don Singleton is well into his fourth decade behind the plate at youth and high school baseball games. But he still is learning as he goes. This summer, Singleton spent two weeks volunteering as an umpire at the Little League Baseball Europe-Africa Region Tournament in Kutno, Poland. That is where the representative from the Czech Republic earned a ticket to the World Series that gets underway on Aug. 13 in Williamsport, Pa. And it is where Singleton earned valuable experience and a chance to further hone his craft. "I did Bristol [Conn., site of the Little League New England Regional] in 1995, and I did >> Read More |
Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Bestows Annual HonorsCommunity submission,
09:55AM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Friday recognized nine winners of the organization’s annual awards for contributions to sports in Berkshire County. The honorees were recognized at a dinner at the Polish Falcon Club. Paula and Dick Rivers received the foundation’s Living Legends Award. Peter White took home the Connie Bianchi Memorial Award of Merit. Ben Knute was honored as the Volunteer of the year. And recent Pittsfield High School grads Jack Reed and Ella Bassi are recipients of the 2025 Vera Barbarotta Sportsman Scholarships. For the first time this year, the foundation added male and female Athletes of the Year and Coach of >> Read More |
Summer Lacrosse Camp Offered in DaltonCommunity submission,
09:41AM / Tuesday, July 08, 2025 | |
DALTON, Mass. -- Wahconah Regional High School boys lacrosse coach Matt Fisher is hosting a an Elite Camp for kids in grades 5 through 12 in August. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Wahconah from Aug. 4 through 8. Instructors at the camp will include Ryan Lanigan, an assistant coach at Division I Siena College. The cost is $140. For information, contact Fisher at mfisher@daltoncra.org. >> Read More |
More Than 1,100 Complete Holiday 5KiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:54PM / Friday, July 04, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Pittsfield’s Abigail Geurds was the fastest female finisher in the 4th of July 5K on Friday morning. Geurds covered the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) course in 17 minutes, 51 seconds to place 26th overall. The race saw 1,141 competitors finish the out-and-back course from Wahconah Street south to the intersection of South Street and West Housatonic and back to Wahconah Park. The top finisher overall was Steve Dowsett of Newburyport, who ran a time of 15:12 to finish three seconds ahead of runner-up Alex White of Dalton. Finishers at the event ranged in age from Pittsfield’s Eamon Doyle, 7, who ran a time of 26:34, to >> Read More |
Pittsfield's Infield Offers Youth Sports CampsCommunity submission,
11:18AM / Tuesday, July 01, 2025 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Infield is offering a series of youth sports camps for children aged 4 to 12 starting next week at its Lyman Street facility. The first two sessions are a baseball camp for children 7 to 12. The camp runs from 9 a.m. to noon, July 7-9. From 9 to noon, July 21-23, The Infield will hold a softball camp for children 7 to 12. The cost for each three-day camp is $150. The Infield is holding an all-sports camp for kids 4 to 6 on Aug. 18 and 19 from 9 to 11 a.m. The camp will allow youngsters to explore baseball, soccer, basketball and more. The cost for the all-sports camp is $100. To register, visit The Infield's >> Read More |
Greylock 14Us Come Back to Win Greenfield Tourney TitleiBerkshires.com Sports,
05:56PM / Sunday, June 29, 2025 | |
 GREENFIELD, Mass. – Lydia Gaudreau hit a two-run double in the bottom of the fourth to give the Greylock Thunder 14Us a 7-6 lead en route to a 15-7, come-from-behind victory over the Vermont Rockets in the title game of the Mid-Summer Storm tournament. The Thunder went 3-0 in bracket play on Sunday after finishing pool play with a perfect 3-0 record on Saturday. In the championship game, the Rockets of St. Albans, Vt., jumped out to a 5-0 lead midway through the second inning. Greylock came back to tie it with two in the second and three in the third, but the Rockets scored again in the top of the fourth to take a 6-5 lead. Bayleigh Tatro started the >> Read More |
RSNE Claims County Cal Ripken CrownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
04:20PM / Saturday, June 21, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Ryder Tatro and Ethan Moran combined to strike out 10 hitters Saturday in leading Refrigerated Structures of New England to an 8-3 win over H.A. George in the Berkshire Cal Ripken League Majors Division Championship on Bud Anderson Field. It was a clean sweep for the Williamstown Cal Ripken program, which saw Purple Valley Auto edge Ramunto’s, 5-4, in the Minors Division final earlier in the day. In the second game of the championship double-header, Tatro got the start for RSNE and struck out eight in 4 and a third innings, allowing two hits and two earned runs before giving the ball to Moran with a 6-2 lead. “Ryder was >> Read More |
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