Updated August 20, 2024 09:06PM

Berkshire Adult Baseball League Playoffs Continue Wednesday

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Dalton Moneymakers and Tunnel City Freight will play Wednesday evening at Joe Wolfe Field in the rubber match of their Berkshire Adult Baseball League 33-and-over division semi-final.
 
The Moneymakers last weekend rebounded from a 6-4 loss on Saturday to tie the best-of-three series at a game apiece with an 8-6 win.
 
In the other half of the 33-year-old division bracket, the Berkshire Thunder edged the Pontoosuc Lake Monsters, 6-5, on Sunday at the American Legion Field in Dalton to take their semi-final series, 2-0.
 
Jesus Lay went 3-for-3 with a triple, a double and a pair of RBIs in an 8-1 win for the Thunder in Game 1 of the series.
 
In the BABL's 20-and-over division, the Great Barrington Millers punched their ticket to the league championship series with a two-game sweep of the North County Kraken, winning 8-0 in Saturday's opener and surviving, 4-2, on Sunday.
 
In the opener, Dick Dumas scattered five hits in four shutout innings to earn the win for the Millers on Saturday.
 
The Millers will face either the Berkshire Bandits or Housatonic River Monsters in the 20-year-old title series.
 
The River Monsters took a 2-1 win on Saturday at Clapp Park behind Hunter Potash, who allowed three hits and no earned runs in a complete-game win. Will Grega came out on the short end of the pitchers' duel after striking out 11.
 
The Bandits and River Monsters will play Game 2 of their best-of-three series on Wednesday in Dalton.
 
Both Wednesday's games start at 5:30 p.m.
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Pittsfield Opens 10U Little League Tournament with a Win

By Stephen Dravis
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Caleb Tiereney and Braiden Coon each went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles Wednesday to lead the Pittsfield Little League 10U All-Stars to a 15-2 win over Adams-Cheshire in the first game of the District 1 Tournament at Deming Park.
 
Luca Bassi also doubled twice and threw three scoreless innings to earn the win in the five-inning game as the starter on the mound.
 
Pittsfield came out swinging and connecting.
 
Six of its first seven hitters reached base and five scored in the top of the first. The only one who did not was Terrell Davies, who was robbed of a sure hit by Adams-Cheshire shortstop Hudson Ziter’s play on a line drive.
 
Prestley Garner doubled in a run, and Tierney hit a two-run double during the rally, which left the designated visitors with a 5-0 lead.
 
“We’ve been doing that in the cage,” Pittsfield coach Matt Stracuzzi said. “I’m telling these guys, ‘Be aggressive. Swing at good pitches. Don’t get behind in the count.’ And tonight they did a good job of that. They really did.”
 
Adams-Cheshire starting pitcher Max Bialas stranded two runners in scoring position in a scoreless second inning. But Bassi and Tiereney each doubled in a three-run third to give Pittsfield an 8-0 lead.
 
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