Danbury, Conn., Edges SteepleCats

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DANBURY, Conn. – The Westerners scored three runs in the bottom of the first and went on to a 6-4 win over the North Adams SteepleCats in New England Collegiate Baseball League action on Saturday night.
 
Gavin Donohue and Ryan Martin homered for Danbury, which got five innings of two-run pitching from starter Cole Gibson.
 
Nicolas LoBello homered and Matthew Colella went 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles for North Adams.
 
Joe LaPrade struck out four and allowed no runs in 2 and two-thirds innings on the mound for the SteepleCats.
 
North Adams (7-22) is at Vermont on Sunday night.
 
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Bourdon Blast Lifts Northern Berkshire 12-Year-Olds at Cal Ripken State Tourney

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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.
 
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