ADAMS, Mass. – Brayden King scored from third on Ivey Weller’s ground ball to the left side in the bottom of the seventh Thursday to give the Great Barrington Little League All-Stars a dramatic, 4-3 win over Dalton-Hinsdale in the teams’ opening game of the Don Gleason District 1 Tournament.

 

GB and Dalton combined for six runs in the last inning and a half to cap a game that featured strong pitching and big plays on defense from both teams.

 

After Dalton-Hinsdale’s Tye Shove led off the game with a triple and scored one batter later on Parker Lussier’s single, no one could get a run across until the bottom of the sixth.

 

That is when Great Barrington’s Weston Tremont hit a leadoff double – GB’s second hit of the game – and eventually scored on a pitch to the backstop to send the game to extra innings.

 

“Our 10-year-old who got called up late to be on the team to give us numbers comes up with a huge double for us,” Great Barrington coach Jowe Warren said. “He scores on that passed ball and that was a big momentum shift for us and gave us a lot of energy.

 

“It got the boys going.”

 

And the win gets GB a leg up in the standings in the 12-year-old tournament, where they are tied with Pittsfield, a winner over host Adams-Cheshire on Wednesday night.