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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 |
Williams Grad Rowing for USA in Paralympic GamesWilliams College Sports Information,
06:22AM / Thursday, August 22, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – A summer of international athletic competition in the City of Lights did not end when the Olympic torch was doused, and next week, once again, an alumnus of Williams College is going for the gold. 2023 graduate Ben Washburne is set to compete in the U.S. PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain at Vaires-sur-Marne Stadium, site of the Paralympic Games’ rowing events. “I am incredibly proud to be representing Team USA at the Paralympics,” Washburne said recently. “The excitement has been building. My boat has been training hard for the last four months together in Boston and just traveled over to Italy for a training trip before heading >> 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 |
Waubeeka Plans Glowball Tournament for CharityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:27PM / Wednesday, August 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Golfers will light up the night sky and support a charity that helps underserved communities around the world at Waubeeka Golf Links this week. Waubeeka will host a Glowball Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 17, from 7 to 10 p.m., to benefit Hope International, a Pennsylvania-based Christian charity dedicated to sharing "the hope of Christ as we provide biblically based training, savings services, and loans that restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty." Chris Kapiloff, who purchased the golf course earlier this year, has firsthand experience with Hope International, having picked and roasted coffee beans alongside residents of Rwanda on >> Read More |
Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club Sets Tryouts| 03:24PM / Thursday, August 08, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Tryouts for the Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club take place on Sunday, Aug. 11, for children born between 2006 and 2012. Girls' tryouts are from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. and boys' are from 10:45 to noon. Location is the Farley-Lamb Field at the Weston Field complex. Register at berkshireajax.com; fill out forms and waivers. Any questions, contact Mike Russo at 413-441-6127 or trusso@williams.edu. >> Read More |
Williams' Kirshe, U.S. Women Earn Historic Bronze Medal| 01:50PM / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | |
 In dramatic fashion Tuesday, the U.S. women's rugby sevens and Williams College graduate Kristi Kirshe beat Australia, 14-12, to win the bronze medal at the Paris Olympic Games. Alex Sedrick made a run from deep in the Americans' defensive zone for a try with time expired to erase a 12-7Si deficit against the favored Aussies. Kirshe, who dominated Team USA's quarter-final victory on Monday to get to the medal round, started and played the length of Tuesday's semi-final loss and the third-place win. After Australia, the 2016 gold medalist, was shocked by Canada in the semi-finals, the Wallabies jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first two minutes of the >> Read More |
Kirshe, U.S. Rugby Drop to Bronze Medal Game| 09:59AM / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | |
Williams College alum Kristi Kirshe and the U.S. women's rugby sevens team will play for a bronze medal at 1 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday after falling to defending gold medalist New Zealand, 24-12, in the semi-finals on Monday. Kirshe made two big plays at the end of each half in the semis. At the end of the first half, she made a tackle out of bounds on a New Zealand player just outside the try zone in extra time to keep it a two-point game. Team USA had scored first on a try from Alev Kelter with an assist from Kirshe to make it 5-0. New Zealand answered a minute later and made its conversion to take a 7-5 lead, which stood until half-time. The Black Birds >> Read More |
Williams Alum Kirshe Leads U.S. Rugby to Olympic Semi-FinalsiBerkshires.com Sports,
04:10PM / Monday, July 29, 2024 | |
 Williams College alum Kristi Kirshe and the U.S. women's rugby sevens team are one win away from securing a medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. On Monday afternoon (EDT), the Eagles came from behind to beat Great Britain, 17-7, in the Olympic quarter-finals. And Kirshe was key in the win. Great Britain, which eliminated the Americans at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, took a 7-0 lead early and led, 7-5, at half-time. But Kirshe scored a try off the second-half restart to give the Eagles a 10-7 lead, and the conversion made it 12-7. Then, Kirshe assited on Sammy Sullivan's try to stretch the lead to 10 points. NBC commentator Rupert >> Read More |
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