SteepleCats Clinch Playoff Spot With Road Win

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LACONIA, N.H. -- Joe Deluca went 2-for-5 with a double and three runs batted in to lead the North Adams SteepleCats to a 5-4 win over Laconia on Friday night in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
 
The SteepleCats (20-21) had a 4-0 lead midway through the fifth and held off a ninth-inning rally, leaving the tying run at third base.
 
Hoosac Valley graduate Tanner Bird pitched two innings of one-hit relief, striking out two and lowering his earned run average for the season to 3.86.
 
Starter John Erhardt earned the win, going 5-2/3 and allowing two runs.
 
North Adams locked up fourth place and the final playoff spot in the NECBL Northern Division with the win. The 'Cats have a two-game lead over the fifth-place Valley Blue Sox going into Saturday's regular season finales.
 
North Adams could still finish as high as third place in the standings. It hosts Newport at Joe Wolfe Field while third-place Laconia (21-20) travels to Holyoke. If the teams end up tied, North Adams will have the tie-breaker because it won the season series from the Muskrats.
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Clarksburg Sees Race for Select Board Seat

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town will see a three-way race for a seat on the Select Board in May. 
 
Colton Andrews, Seth Alexander and Bryana Malloy returned papers by Wednesday's deadline to run for the three-year term vacated by Jeffrey Levanos. 
 
Andrews ran unsuccessfully for School Committee and is former chairman of the North Adams Housing Authority, on which he was a union representative. He is also president of the Pioneer Valley Building Trades Council.
 
Malloy and Alexander are both newcomers to campaigning. Malloy is manager of industrial relations for the Berkshire Workforce Board and Alexander is a resident of Gates Avenue. 
 
Alexander also returned papers for several other offices, including School Committee, moderator, library trustee and the five-year seat on the Planning Board. He took out papers for War Memorial trustee and tree warden but did not return them and withdrew a run for Board of Health. 
 
He will face off in the three-year School Committee seat against incumbent Cynthia Brule, who is running for her third term, and fellow newcomer Bonnie Cunningham for library trustee. 
 
Incumbent Ronald Boucher took out papers for a one-year term as moderator but did not return them. He was appointed by affirmation in 2021 when no won ran and accepted the post again last year as a write-in.
 
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