Adams-Cheshire Walks Off Little League Win; Pittsfield 12s Roll
Adams-Cheshire rallied for two runs in the fifth to tie it and two in the sixth to erase a 4-3 deficit and walk off with the win.
Winning pitcher Maddox Milesi (four strikeouts, one walk) led off the sixth by dropping a single into right field. With one out, he was erased on a fielder’s choice that left Avery Decker at first.
Lucas Benson then worked a walk to put the winning run at first and bring Collins to the plate.
“Danny’s a good hitter,” Adams-Cheshire coach Steve Albareda said. “I knew if he could gap one, we had a chance. Avery gets on base. Lucas gets on first with a walk. He can fly.
“Give me a gapper. That’s all I was asking for.”
Collins delivered, and Adams-Cheshire improved to 2-0 in round robin play in the five-team tournament.
Milesi went 2-for-3, and Lador Lawson hit a two-run home run to lead AC’s offense.
Adams-Cheshire struck first with a run in the bottom of the first.
Decker and Collins worked walks and moved up on a groundout from Bentley Martin. Justin Mayotte then singled to right to give Adams-Cheshire a 1-0 lead.
Dalton-Hindsdale starter Parker Delmarsh got a fly ball to strand runners at the corners.
Demarsh worked two innings before giving the ball to Tye Shove, who struck out six in 3 and two-thirds innings.
DH tied the game right away in the top of the third. Joseph Racicot hit a leadoff double and came home on a wild pitch.
Milesi settled down, and he and Shove kept it 1-1 until the top of the fifth.
“He’s great,” Albareda said of Milesi. “He pounds the zone. He’s not going to strike out 15, 16 people. But we’ve got to make plays behind him. A lot of soft contact. We made the plays we needed to.
Shove led off the fifth with a double, and after Tony Zaniboni was awarded an intentional walk, Corbin Carlow ripped a double to center to give DH its first lead at 3-1.
In the bottom of the frame, Caden Stump hit a two-out single, and Lawson’s round-tripper tied the game.
In the top of the sixth, DH caught a break.
Joey Henault walked and stole second ahead of Theo Smith’s two out single to put runners at first and third. A ground ball up the middle produced the game’s few errors, allowing Henault to score and sending Dalton-Hinsdale to the bottom of the sixth ahead, 4-3.
“We said we had to keep our heads up,” Albareda said. “We gave up an unearned run in the sixth. Come back, and I said to Maddox, ‘You’re a leader. Get us on. We’re gonna win this game.’
“He got on, and we won the game.”
Adams-Cheshire plays Lanesborough on Monday at Chamberlain Park. Dalton-Hinsdale is off until Tuesday, when it plays Great Barrington.
Pittsfield 29, Lanesborough 0
DALTON, Mass. – Hector Reyes-Colon went 2-for-3 with a triple and a three-run home run to highlight a big win for the Pittsfield Little League 12-year-old All-Stars.
Sean Rozak was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three runs batted in, and Shaun Boehm and Thomas Lacatell each went 3-for-4 at the plate.
Pittsfield jumped on top with seven runs in the top of the first.
A pair of walks to start the second set up Reyes-Colon’s bomb to left-center.
It was 14-0 after two innings, but Pittsfield erased all doubt in the third as three different Lanesborough pitchers combined to get through the inning.
Lanesborough used six pitchers in the game.
Pittsfield got one inning apiece from Lacatell, Mason Fox and Rozak.
Lanesborough got its first base-runner with two out in the bottom of the third when Axiel Colon worked a walk. Jackson Inman then followed with the first hit of the game for his team, a clean single to center.
Rozak then closed the door with his second strikeout of the inning.
Pittsfield plays Great Barrington on Monday at Deming Park in Pittsfield. Lanesborough plays Adams-Cheshire on Monday in Dalton.
Standings: t-1. Adams-Cheshire, Pittsfield, 2-0; 3. Great Barrington, 1-1; t-4. Dalton-Hinsdale, Lanesborough, 0-2.
