Big Performances Recognized in Big Week for Berkshire County Teams

Berkshire County sent 15 of its 22 high school basketball teams into Western Massachusetts tournament play.

 

Eleven of those teams made it to this week's sectional semifinals. And one of the four knocked out lost in the only all-county matchup in the postseason to date.

 

Add to that two state championships and two runner-up finishes in Nordic skiing a hockey team advancing to the Western Mass title game and a wrestler placing third at the all-state meet, and it was a heck of a week for all of Berkshire County's student athletes.

 

Two of the individuals who really stood out are this week's iBerkshires.com/Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Athletes of the Week.

 

Taconic senior Isaac Percy scored 20 points on Friday to lead his team to a convincing 90-42 win over Belchertown in the Western Mass Division 2 quarter-finals.

 

Big scoring numbers are nothing new for Percy, who last year averaged 17 points per game in leading Taconic to a Western Mass title and a berth in the D2 state championship game.

 

This year, the career 1,000-point scorer is averaging more than 20 points per game and 1.7 3-pointers per night for a Taconic team that carries a nine-game winning streak into Wednesday's sectional semi-final.

 

The Pittsfield girls would not be in the tournament without the 19 points and five assists Jordyn Lummus provided in the Generals' regular season finale.

 

Qualifying for the Division 2 playoffs just under the wire with a 10-10 record, Pittsfield drew the tournament's top seed, Northampton, for Friday's quarter-final.

 

Lummus made sure Pittsfield's season did not end there.

 

She scored another 15 points, grabbed eight rebounds and hit a pair of free throws with one second left on the clock to give PHS a 50-49 win and a trip to Tuesday's semi-final at Western New England University.

 

Lummus is averaging nearly 10 points per game and a team-high 3.5 assists per night this winter for Pittsfield, which advanced to the sectional semis for the first time since 2018.

 

The iBerkshires.com Athlete of the Week is sponsored by Southwestern Vermont Medical Center.