Pair of Unbeatens Remain in Berkshire Adult Baseball League

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Cornerstone and the Adams Aces won their games this weekend to stay unbeaten in the Berkshire Adult Baseball League.
 
Cornerstone (4-0) leads the 20-year-old league after taking a pair of games.
 
Cornerstone took a pair of games from the Great Barrington Millers over the weekend.
 
First, Jeff Field hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to help break open a close game that ended up a 10-3 Cornerstone win. Isaiah Provencher earned the win on the mound, striking out eight.
 
In Game 2, Cornerstone went ahead, 6-1, after two innings en route to a 9-2 win. Field homered twice and drove in eight runs in the win. Tanner Bird homered in a two-hit day.
 
The Adams Aces stayed a game up in the 35-year-old league with a 16-1 win over the Dalton Moneymakers.
 
Adams (4-0) scored 11 times in the fifth inning as Pete Greenbush went 2-for-2 at the plate, and Mike Delsoldato added a pair of hits and three RBIs.
 
Greenbush upped his batting average this season to .909, going 10-for-11 in Adams' four games.
 
Corey Hillard went the distance on the mound for the Aces, allowing three hits and no earned runs.
 
20-year-old league: 1. Cornerstone (4-0); 2. BBA (2-1); 3. Housatonic (1-2) and Lenox (1-2); 5. GB Millers (1-4).
 
35-year-old league: 1. Adams Aces (4-0); 2. Thunder (4-1); 3. Bandits (3-2); 4. Tunnel City (2-2); 5. Dalton (2-3); 6. Spiders (1-4); 7. Gremlins (0-4).
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Pittsfield Resident Victim of Alleged Murder in Greenfield

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A man found dismembered in a barrel in Greenfield on Monday has been identified as Pittsfield resident.
 
The Northwestern District Attorney's Office identified victim as Christopher Hairston, 35, and subsequently arrested a suspect, Taaniel Herberger-Brown, 42, at Albany (N.Y.) International Airport on Tuesday.
 
The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that Herberger-Brown told investigators he planned on visiting his mother outside the country. 
 
Herberger-Brown was detained overnight, and the State Police obtained an arrest warrant on a single count of murder on Tuesday morning, the Greenfield Police Department said in a press release.
 
According to a report written by State Police Trooper Blakeley Pottinger, the body was discovered after Greenfield police received reports of a foul odor emitting from the apartment along with a black hatchet to the left of the barrel, the Greenfield Recorder reported. 
 
Investigators discovered Hairston's hand and part of a human torso at Herberger-Brown’s former apartment, located at 92 Chapman St, the news outlet said. 
 
According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Herberger-Brown originally told investigators that he had not been to the apartment in months because he had been in and out of hospitals. 
 
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