NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Shane Fuller scored nine points to lead the McCann Tech boys basketball team to a 38-36 win over Hoosac Valley in the John Giorgi Summer Basketball League on Wednesday night.

 

Cristian Montoya and Kevin Dowling scored five points apiece in a balanced scoring attack for the Hornets.

 

Jameson Coughlan scored a game-high 11 points and grabbed five rebounds for Hoosac, which got six points from Peter Barrow.

 

In the Open Division on Wednesday night, David Vidal scored 32 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead Key West to a 53-36 win over Maselli & Field.

 

Mike Vadnais scored eight points for Key West.

 

Tim Bornt scored 19 points, and Tim Maselli had six for Pete's.

ADAMS, Mass. -- Brandon Roughley hit a two-run home run and a double to lead the Dalton 11- and 12-year-old All-Stars to a 13-0 win over Adams-Cheshire in the District 1 tournament on Wednesday evening.

 

Chad Howes pitched four innings of shutout ball before leaving the game to save himself for future games this week as Dalton stayed alive in the double-elimination tournament and ended Adams-Cheshire's run.

 

Brandon's brother Auggie hit a three-run homer in the first inning to get Dalton a lead, and it never looked back.

 

Nate Zink and Kevin Huban each had two hits for Dalton, who moves on to play Pittsfield North on Thursday in a double-header that features Pittsfield South and Great Barrington in the winners' bracket.

 

Zach Swistak broke up Dalton's no-hit bid with a single in the fifth inning.

ADAMS, Mass. -- After falling behind by five runs early, the Berkshire Americans high school all-star baseball team almost battled all the way back before suffering a 6-5 loss to the Adirondack Hawks on Wednesday night.

 

The Americans, who have players from five different Berkshire County high schools, fell to 8-4-2 in the Eastern New York Travel Baseball League.

 

But despite the loss, the Americans showed the kind of spirit that got them where they are.

 

"Overall, I'm happy with the attitude we had tonight," Berkshire coach Mike Gladu said. "Any time you spot a team a bunch of runs, you're going to battle from behind. And that's never an easy thing to do in a seven-inning game.

 

"I think the hitting was there. I think we threw the ball around a little bit."

 

Five Berkshire errors led to three unearned runs for the Hawks.

 

Another factor was early control issues for starting pitcher Isaiah Clark, who walked five in an inning and two thirds.

 

His Drury teammate Tyler Briggs came in from third base and went the rest of the way, allowing just one unearned run on four hits over 5.1 innings.

 

"He did great," Gladu said. "To come in in a situation on three days rest and throw 60-something pitches.

 

"I tell the pitchers, you've got to pitch to contact. When you have a good defense, you've got to make them work. When you don't pitch to contact, there's no defense for a base on balls."

 

It was 5-0 midway through the second when McCann Tech's Sean Davis singled to left for Berkshire's first base runner.

 

He moved up on a ground ball and an error and came home on an errant pickoff throw to make it a 5-1 game.

 

That same errant pickoff try got Briggs to second, and Hoosac Valley's Joey Buonemani reached when he was hit by a pitch. A ground ball moved both men into scoring position, Pittsfield High's Evan Bossio doubled to left to score two and get Berkshire within two runs.

 

Adirondack stretched its lead with an unearned run in the top of the third, but Briggs shut them down from there.

Meanwhile, Berkshire scratched out a run in the third and a run in the fourth.

 

In the third, Jake Tatro reached on an error and came home on a base hit by Kevin Donati.

 

In the fourth, Kyle Shade reached on an error, moved up on Bossio's sac bunt, went to third on a fielder's choice and scored on a wild pitch.

 

Berkshire will be home again on Saturday at Renfrew in a double-header at 11 a.m. The Americans will play more than 30 games by the end of July before heading to Myrtle Beach for a tournament next month.

 

More photos from this game here.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Things have tightened up a little bit after Day 2 at the PGA Junior Series event at Taconic Golf Club.

 

In the girls division, Lois Kaye Go, a resident of South Orange, N.J., carded a 2-over round of 73 to pull into a first-place tie with Texas' Maya Walton at 9-over with one round left in the three-day event.

 

Virginian Alex Wright is just one stroke off the lead at 10-over after a plus-5 on Wednesday.

 

Walton, who was just 2-over after Day 1, struggled on the front nine with six bogeys.

 

Kaye Go, who already has a berth in the Junior PGA National Championship by virtue of winning the NJPGA Junior PGA Championship Qualifier last month, was steady on Wednesday, bogeying four holes and getting a birdie on the par-4 eighth.

 

Winners of the girls division and the boys 15-18 year divisions this week at Taconic will earn an exemption into the national championship, scheduled for July 29-Aug. 1 in Bryan/College Station, Texas.

 

In that boys 15-18 group on Wednesday, Austin, Texas, rising high school sophomore Daniel Martinez remains in the lead but came back the pack a little bit.

 

Martinez carded a 6-over 77 on Wednesday and stands at plus-4 with 18 holes to play.

 

Lake Placid, N.Y.'s, Arthur Griffin, who graduated high school this spring, is second at 9-over after a 3-over day on Wednesday. Belmont, Mass., sophomore Michael Pergamo is third at 10-over, six strokes off the lead, after a second straight 5-over outing.

 

Williamstown's Matthew Wiseman and Kyle Alvarez are in 47th and 52nd place, respectively.

 

Delmar, N.Y.'s, Austin Fox continues to lead the boys 12-14 age division. His six-over second round puts him at 10-over for the tournament and gives him a seven-stroke lead over second place Phin Choukas of Hanover, N.H.

 

The tournament concludes on Thursday. The girls threesome of Walton, Kaye Go and Wright tees off at 8:27 on the first hole. Martinez, Griffin and Pergamo head out at 9:48 off the first tee.

The field has been set for the Babe Ruth baseball 14-year-old state tournament to be contested this weekend at Worcester's Aaron Krock Field.

 

The Pittsfield 14-year-old All-Stars will face Worcester's West Side in the second half of a Saturday semi-final double-header. The action gets under way at 2 p.m. when Worcester's East Side faces Westfield at 2 p.m.

 

The winners will play for the state Babe Ruth 14-year-old championship at 2 on Sunday, July 13.

 

In the 15-year-old division, North Adams and Pittsfield are alive in pool play that continues through Monday, July 14.

 

Pittsfield is 1-0 in Pool A heading into Thursday's 5 p.m. home game against South Side at Deming Field. Pittsfield opened the tournament on Tuesday with an 18-1 thrashing of East Side. South Side had a convincing win of its own, 11-0, over Northbridge, in its Pool A opener.

 

In Pool C, North Adams opened with a 3-0 loss to Holden on Tuesday but comes home on Thursday to host Joe Schwartz at 6:30 p.m. at Alcombright Field.

 

The top two finishers in each of three four-team pools will advance to single-elimination play.

 

The 13-year-old tournament will be played at Westfield's Bullens Field starting on Thursday evening with four teams in a double-elimination format that runs through Sunday.

 

Pittsfield will take on Holden at 5 p.m. Thursday in the tournament's first game. North End and Westfield will square off in the second half of a double-header to get things started. Everyone will be back on Friday for losers' and winners' bracket games that get under way at 5 and 8 p.m., respectively.