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 Man Facing Drug, Assault Charges

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A city man was taken into custody on Tuesday evening after allegedly threatening others in his North Street apartment. 
 
Ixander Pereira, 22, was arrested after police say they discovered bags of material "consistent" with heroin on his person. 
 
Pereira was charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon (firearm) and possession of a class A substance (heroin) and is expected to be arraigned in Pittsfield District Court today. No firearm was recovered.
 
Police responded a call about an "unwanted subject" in the 500 block of North Street at approximately 6:34 p.m.
 
The responding officers were told that someone had been threatened by a man with a firearm, and that there were multiple people, including the potential suspect, within a particular apartment.
 
Because of the information regarding the presence of a firearm and the number of people inside the residence, additional officers, including members of the anti-crime unit, also responded.
 
Officers were allowed into the apartment, and Pereira was taken into custody without incident.
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