NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- North Adams SteepleCats pitcher Blake Whitney was named to the All-New England Collegiate Baseball League First Team on Tuesday morning.
Whitney is one of four pitchers on the all-league first team: three starters plus closer Tyler Smith of VAlley.
Whitney, a rising senior at the University of South Carolina-Upstate, finished the summer with a 2.07 earned run average and struck out a league-leading 80 in 52 innings pitched.
His ERA was sixth in the league.
Eleven of the league's 13 teams were represented on the All-NECBL Teams, while both Newport and Keene led the pack with four selections apiece. Regular season division champions Upper Valley and Ocean State each had three honorees - including a league-most three first team all-league selections by Upper Valley, while the 2017 NECBL champion Valley Blue Sox saw one of their players selected.
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BAAMS' Monthly Studio 9 Series Features Mino Cinelu
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On April 20, Berkshires' Academy of Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS) will host its fourth in a series of live music concerts at Studio 9.
Saturday's performance will feature drummer, guitarist, keyboardist and singer Mino Cinelu.
Cinelu has worked with Miles Davis, Sting, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Vicente Amigo, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny, Branford Marsalis, Pino Daniele, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Salif Keita.
Cinelu will be joined by Richard Boulger on trumpet and flugelhorn, Dario Boente on piano and keyboards, and Tony Lewis on drums and percussion.
Doors open: 6:30pm. Tickets can be purchased here.
All proceeds will help support music education at BAAMS, which provides after-school and Saturday music study, as well as a summer jazz-band day camp for students ages 10-18, of all experience levels
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