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The Lee youth football seniors celebrate their league championship on Saturday at Berkshire Community College.

Lee Seniors Win County Youth Football League Title

By Leland BarnesiBerkshires.com Sports
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Bryce Hoff led Lee's offense and scored the game's only touchdown.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Lee Seniors Saturday won back-to-back Berkshire County Youth Football League championships with consecutive undefeated seasons.
 
Lee, who has been unbeaten since 2022, continued its reign of dominance with an 8-0 win over Pittsfield at Berkshire Community College.
 
Lee’s Bryce Hoff went 59 yards for a rushing touchdown in the first quarter, and it ended up the only score in the contest.
 
Pittsfield, who had only lost one game in their season to Lee, early looked to find revenge in the championship game rematch.
 
Lee had a really good run game for the most part, with Hoff getting most of the carries.
 
Pittsfield made it tough for the South County powers to find good passing options.
 
Pittsfield’s defensive backs found ways to prevent the big plays that Lee is known to make.
 
Pittsfield Head Coach Lavonte Wiggins seemed very passionate during the game, exhorting his players with phrases like “you earned this game.” 
 
But Pittsfield’s offense had some issues early into the game with its snaps, allowing Lee to have good field position.
 
Pittsfield’s defense did not allow any big yardage – outside of Hoff’s score – and stopped Lee on four separate occasions.
 
The teams combined to not be able to convert any fourth down plays.
 
Lee gave a lot of opportunities to Pittsfield in the red zone but, unfortunately for the Bulldogs, miscommunications caused bad timing fumbles.
 
It was a back-and-forth game all afternoon with both defenses excelling, forcing turnovers on downs and recovering fumbles.
 
Following the third quarter, both teams looked heavily equal style wise, with both teams running the ball most plays.
 
Neither team would find the end zone following the big run play by Lee.
 
Lee had some big plays on defense against Pittsfield, one including an 8-yard tackle-for-loss on a screenplay by Mason Lucy.
 
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Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing Awarded $500K

BOSTON — the Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced $21.4 million in tax incentive awards to 19 life sciences companies. 
 
In Berkshire County, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing of Lee was awarded $500,000.
 
The awards, provided through the MLSC’s Tax Incentive Program, are expected to create 1,155 new life sciences industry jobs in Massachusetts.
 
"We must continue to meet the moment and send a strong signal to companies here in Massachusetts and globally that our state remains the best place in the world to launch and scale life sciences solutions," said Governor Maura Healey. "Becoming the global hub of the life sciences doesn’t happen by accident. These awards will allow our state to accelerate innovation and job creation and transform lives around the world." 
 
The MLSC Tax Incentive program is offered to companies engaged in life sciences research and development, commercialization, and manufacturing in Massachusetts, and provides incentives to companies of all sizes looking to expand their efforts by creating new, long-term jobs in the state.
 
Out of the 19 companies receiving tax incentive awards, 17 companies—accounting for 72 percent of the new jobs—are expanding in communities outside of Boston and Cambridge. Through this program, life sciences companies have committed to the creation of more than 18,000 jobs since the MLSC’s inception.
 
The MLSC jointly administers the Tax Incentive Program with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, which oversees the technical administration of the incentives. Awardees are required to maintain job commitments over a five-year period. The program includes regular reporting requirements for awardees to document jobs created as a result of the incentive. MLSC has continued to use the Tax Incentive Program to leverage diverse life sciences assets across Massachusetts and encourage growth, expansion and retention on a statewide basis.  
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