Mainers End SteepleCats' Season

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SANFORD, Maine -- For the second straight game, the North Adams SteepleCats jumped out to the lead in their NECBL playoff game.
 
But on Sunday night, the Sanford Mainers caught the 'Cats and ended North Adams' season.
 
Four Sanford pitchers combined to scatter six hits in a 3-1 win that sent the Mainers to the New England Collegiate Baseball League North Division championship round.
 
Conner Griffin went four innings, allowing just one unearned runs in the top of the first for Sanford, which won the best-of-three playoff series, 2-1.
 
The Mainers came back with three runs, one unearned, against North Adams starter Tristan Helmick in the sixth inning.
 
Helmick struck out three and scattered four hits in six innings of work.
 
J.T. Thompson went 2-for-4 with a double to lead North Adams' offense.
 
Sanford moves on to meet North Division No. 1 seed Keene in a best-of-three series to decide who goes to the league championship series.
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Marshall Street Crash Under Investigation; Businesses Remain Closed Until Damage Repaired.

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Glass litters Tres Ninos' floor on Friday. Right, the front logo from the truck is screwed into the plywood covering the front of the building.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Two local businesses are closed for an indefinite amount of time after a pickup truck slammed through the front of Brewster's antique shop on Marshall Street on Thursday night. 
 
Police Chief Mark Bailey said the crash is still under investigation and didn't have have any further information on Friday morning on one of the truck's occupants who was taken to the hospital. 
 
Brewster's owner Casey Albert was standing in line at another antique shop on Friday, hoping to replace some merchandise shattered in the collision. 
 
"I mean half the store is gone," she said. "He pushed a lot of things way far back, the whole front is just gone."
 
Albert said building owner David Carver said it would be months before she could re-open. Right now, she can get into the back half of the store but was told not to touch anything in the front until the insurance adjuster can look at it. 
 
It's not clear, she said, how long it will take to repair the damage to the building. But her business is taking a big hit. 
 
"You can't replace antiques," Albert said. "That's why they're usually expensive." 
 
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