WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- It was another fun week for Williamstown Rookie baseball, with iBerkshires.com playing games home and away.

 

The week started with The Clark hosting iBerkshires.com in Rookie baseball on May 14 at Bud Anderson Field. Both teams had strong defense, with The Clark recording three outs in the top of the second.

 

Third base was especially strong, with outs made by Caelan Briggs and Alex Boyer from The Clark, and Akosh Olchvary and Polly Rhie from iBerkshires.com.

 

On Saturday, May 17, a short-handed iBerkshires.com team traveled to Lanesborough's Bridge Street field to play Wichmann Plumbing. In the bottom of the first, iBerkshires let up only one run before recording three outs, and in every single inning of the game, iBerkshires recorded at least one out.

 

But it was, in fact, iBerkshires' hitting that outshone their strong defense.

 

"The players are really learning to swing the bats, and a number of hard hit ground balls made it into the outfield," coach Steven Miller said. "Only a few times did we need to bring out the tee for the kids."

 

Annabelle Coody, the younger sister of iBerkshire player, Charlotte Coody, who was a game-time addition to the roster because iBerkshires was missing two regular players, got a hit off of one of the coach's pitches, even though she'd never played in a coach-pitch game before.

 

"As they say, hitting is contagious," Miller said.