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The champion fifth- and sixth-grade team plays in the Housatonic Tournament this weekend.

iBerkshires/North Adams 5-6 Team County Champs

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Berkshire County Championships were held over this past weekend and iBerkshires.com/North Adams' Grades 5 and 6 team took home the title.

North Adams went 4–0 on the way to their third straight tournament championship.

In the first game against Lee, North Adams won 41–27 behind 13 points from Reece Racette and eight points from Javoun Woodson. The second game saw North Adams beat Dalton 41–35. Scott McGuire was high man with 15 points while Cove Massey chipped in with seven.


Greylock, the host team, met North Adams in the semifinals and the game came down to the final shot as their three-point attempt fell short and North Adams was on its way to the finals with a 42–39 win. Reece led the way with 14 points while Hunter Sarkis had 10.

North Adams faced Dalton in the finals, as they defeated Greylock to come out of the loser's bracket. North Adams came out strong and jumped to a quick 10–1 lead and never looked back. Reece again was North Adams high man with 14 and Scott chipped in with 12. Javoun and Max Daugherty rebounded the ball well for North Adams and Cove and Hunter also chipped in on the scoring.

North Adams will now play in the Housatonic Tournament this weekend before ending the season in a tournament on Cape Cod on March 22–24.


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WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opens a new exhibition, "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art."
 
The exhibit opened on March 22.
 
According to a press release: 
 
The idea that numbers emanate sacred significance, and connect the past with the future, is prehistoric and global. Rooted in the Babylonian science of astrology, medieval Christian numerology taught that God created a well-ordered universe. Deciphering the universe's numerical patterns would reveal the Creator's grand plan for humanity, including individual fates. 
 
This unquestioned concept deeply pervaded European cultures through centuries. Theologians and lay people alike fervently interpreted the Bible literally and figuratively via number theory, because as King Solomon told God, "Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight" (Wisdom 11:22). 
 
"Cracking the Cosmic Code" explores medieval relationships among numbers, events, and works of art. The medieval and Renaissance art on display in this exhibition from the 5th to 17th centuries—including a 15th-century birth platter by Lippo d'Andrea from Florence; a 14th-century panel fragment with courtly scenes from Palace Curiel de los Ajos, Valladolid, Spain; and a 12th-century wall capital from the Monastery at Moutiers-Saint-Jean—reveal numerical patterns as they relate to architecture, literature, gender, and timekeeping. 
 
"There was no realm of thought that was not influenced by the all-consuming belief that all things were celestially ordered, from human life to stones, herbs, and metals," said WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval, who curated the exhibition. "As Vincent Foster Hopper expounds, numbers were 'fundamental realities, alive with memories and eloquent with meaning.' These artworks tease out numerical patterns and their multiple possible meanings, in relation to gender, literature, and the celestial sphere. 
 
"The exhibition looks back while moving forward: It relies on the collection's strengths in Western medieval Christianity, but points to the future with goals of acquiring works from the global Middle Ages. It also nods to the history of the gallery as a medieval period room at this pivotal time in WCMA's history before the momentous move to a new building," Sandoval said.
 
Cracking the Cosmic Code runs through Dec. 22.
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