Bourdon Blast Lifts Northern Berkshire 12-Year-Olds at Cal Ripken State Tourney

iBerkshires.com Sports09:03PM / Saturday, July 11, 2026Print Story | Email Story

HUDSON, Mass. – Garrett Bourdon Saturday hit a two-run walk-off home run to lead the Northern Berkshire Youth Baseball 12U All-Stars to a 14-12 Cal Ripken State Tournament win over Groton-Dunstable.

Bourdon’s second home run of the game brought home Mason Tudor after Groton-Dunstable tied the game with a run in the top of the sixth.

Bourdon hit his second grand slam of the tournament earlier in the game to tie Groton-Dunstable, 7-7, in the third inning.

William Bayliss went 3-for-4, and Tudor was 2-for-2 with a double and three RBIs in a 13-hit attack for Northern Berkshire.

Maxwell Alicea went 2-for-3 with a run batted in.

Four different Northern Berkshire pitchers combined to allow seven earned runs and strike out five. Tudor struck out two and walked none while allowing two runs in the fifth and sixth to earn the win.

Tudor also pitched two-thirds of an inning in Northern Berkshire’s other game on Saturday, a 9-8 win over Nipmuc.

Marco Koamaya threw a strong 3 and a third innings, striking out a pair and allowing one run.

Lucas Harrington led the offense against Nipmuc, going 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and four RBIs.

Samuel Chenail went 2-for-3 in the win.

Saturday’s victories improved the Northern Berkshire 12U team to 2-1 in the tournament and earned it a berth in the state semi-finals.

10-Year-Olds

MARLBORO, Mass. – The Northern Berkshire 10U team dropped a pair of contests on Saturday to fall to 0-3 at the State Tournament.

In Saturday’s first game, a 6-3 loss to Nipmuc, Ben Vivori and Liam Pytko each had a pair of hits, and Joey Catellotti doubled for Northern Berkshire. Pytko and Vivori split time on the hill, striking out four and allowing four earned runs.

Game 3 at the tournament for the Northern Berkshire team came against Groton-Dunstable, which took control with a four-run third inning en route to an 11-5 win.

Vivori went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles, and Catellotti was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

Pytko and Landon O’Neil each had a pair of hits in the loss.

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Reign Purple Reigns Over 1791 14-and-Under Field

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
07:58PM / Sunday, August 16, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Camden Sievers Sunday went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles at the plate and struck out eight in four innings on the mound as the Berkshire Reign Purple won the 14-year-old Division Championship Game to conclude the inaugural 1791 Classic at Joe Wolfe Field.

But there were no losers in the final game of the three-day, eight-team event as the Purple beat the Berkshire Reign White, 10-2, in what amounted to a celebration of the travel baseball program’s success – over the weekend, this summer and the last five years.

Reign founder and coach Kristopher Ireland was in the losing dugout in the split squad game on Sunday evening, but, in reality, he couldn’t lose after pulling off what he promised will be the first of many 1791 Classics to come.

“The tournament went great,” Ireland said. “The weather held out. I think we only had one game that got called short for rain, which we probably could have gotten in, but it would have made it a late night [Friday].

“The weather was great over the weekend. The facilities held up wonderfully. We got hit with a thunderstorm in Dalton on Friday night, and our parents stepped up and got the field ready for Saturday’s games. And, once again, kudos to North Adams for hosting us here and Dalton for hosting us there. In Pittsfield, we had fields there, too, if necessary.”

Nothing, including the weather, could stop the Reign Purple in the four-team 14-and-under bracket, where it went 5-0 – three pool games plus Sunday’s semi-final and final – outsourcing opponents by a combined 65-17.

In Sunday’s title game, Kody Lesser was 3-for-3 with an RBI, Spencer Kotski was 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs, and Kai Laframboise went 2-for-3 with a triple in a 13-hit attack.

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