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BRAINTREE, Mass. -- The Pittsfied Little League American Division All-Stars battled to the final out but came up just short in an 8-7, elimination round loss to Wellesley at the state tournament...

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- On Friday night, Ben Sykes started a sixth-inning rally that gave the Pittsfield Little League American Division All-Stars a win in their opener at the state...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – For the Major Leaguers, the Home Run Derby was on Monday.   The Pittsfield American Division Little Leaguers did their version on...

Led by Rudy Scholz Award Nominee Sam Golla, the Bears start their postseason with a rematch against Central Washington as they look for their first national title in over a decade.

  Asked to comment on a big at-bat by Keegan in the second inning, Pittsfield Manager B.J. Jefferson misheard and jumped straight to a big at-bat by Keegan in the seventh.   The former was Pittsfield’s first hit of the game and sparked a five-run rally to tie the game. The latter produced the baserunner who scampered home on a wild pitch to give the Americans the extra-inning victory over Swansea and the ultimate prize for 10-year-old Little Leaguers in the commonwealth.   In between...

July 25, 2021 | 06:25AM A 2020 report issued by State Auditor Suzanne Bump revealed that the commonwealths payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) program for state-owned lands (SOL) is underfunded and negatively affects smaller rural communities in Western Mass compared to larger, wealthier communities in the eastern part of... click for more July 24, 2021 | 04:48PM The Pittsfield Little League American Division 12-year-old All-Stars Saturday beat Longmeadow for a sectional title. click for more Ju...

  The Pittsfield Americans Tuesday beat Longmeadow, 11-5, to win the Section 1 title, advance to the state tournament and run their all-star record to 7-0 this summer.   Cooper Reed struck out seven in 4-⅓ innings, and Jack Wendling went 3-for-3 with a double, two stolen bases and four runs scored.   Pittsfield, which went 4-0 at the District 1 tournament, knocked off Longmeadow for the second time in three days to win the sectional through the winners bracket.   The Americans sco...

  Jackson Boehm, the last of six reserves for Pittsfield to crack the lineup, hit a leadoff single in the top of the sixth to ignite a six-run rally that gave Pittsfield a 9-5 win over Longmeadow in the Section 1 tournament.   No. 3 hitter Aiden Arsenault and cleanup man Cooper Reed delivered back-to-back two-run doubles in the middle of the game-winning rally, but it all started with Boehm, the third player to hit in the No. 8 spot in the lineup.   "It was nice to see Jackson come off...

    "The last practice we had, 10 players in a row missed the bunt," Jefferson said after the Pittsfield Little League American Division 10-year-old All-Stars defeated Holden, 10-0, in five innings on Friday.   "Couldnt get a bunt down to safe our life. And all of a sudden ... thank God theyre game players and not practice players."   Bunts were critical to the Americans in opening the double-elimination Section 1 tournament with a victory at Deming Park.   In the second inning, J...

  The Americans scored more than twice as many runs as its opponent had plate appearances in a 23-1 win over Dalton-Hinsdale to advance to the state sectional tournament.     But all that offense was superfluous with a lights-out pitching performance from the tandem of Cooper Reed and Jack Wendling.   Reed struck out five in two innings of work and allowed just one unearned run before turning the ball over to Wendling with a 22-run lead. Wendling got the first two batters he faced on...