MCLA Men Open MASCAC Play with Win

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BRIDGEWATER, Mass. – The MCLA men's basketball team opened Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a 74-68 victory over host Bridgewater State University on Saturday afternoon at the Tinsley Center.
 
The Trailblazers improve to 8-4 on the season with their fifth straight win. The Bears, who were playing without leading scorer Ryan Carney (Easton, Mass.), fall to 3-10 with the setback.
 
Junior forward Mike DeMartinis scored 20 points and added four rebounds and five assists to lead the way for MCLA. Junior guard Noah Yearsley added 14 points, five boards and three assists for the Trailblazers (8-4), while junior forward Hayden Bird (North Adams) and senior guard Ki-Shawn Monroe tallied 10 points apiece. Monroe also finished with a team-best nine rebounds.
 
MCLA hosts Fitchburg State on Tuesday.
 
Women's Basketball
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Bridgewater's Destiny Fitzgerald and Hannah Dziadyk each scored 12 in a 76-42 win over MCLA.
 
Kylah Langston scored nine points, and Erika Ryan grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked 11 shots for the Trailblazers (2-9, 0-1), who hosts Fitchburg State on Tuesday.
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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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