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MCLA Women's Soccer: MASCAC Champions

MCLA Women's Soccer Crowned Regular Season MASCAC Champions

By Jeffrey PuleriMCLA Sports Info
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BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts women's soccer program tied Bridgewater State 1-1 in double overtime Saturday afternoon, earning MCLA (10-2-5 overall, 4-0-3 MASCAC) the regular season MASCAC title and the number-one seed in the upcoming conference championships. Brianna Bresett scored the lone goal for MCLA who battled back from a 1-0 halftime deficit to eventually earn the title.

The championship is the first for Head Coach Deb Raber during her 11-year tenure. It is also the programs' first title in since 1994. MCLA will open the MASCAC playoffs at home on Wednesday, Nov. 3, against Bridgewater at 1 p.m.


#8 Brianna Bresett

MCLA had a golden opportunity to open the scoring in the 25th minute as they were awarded a penalty kick. However, freshman midfielder Ashlee Scofield (Averill Park, N.Y.) pushed the attempt wide left to keep the game scoreless.

The Bears were able to take advantage just two minutes later as junior midfielder Carrie Robitaille (Ludlow) knocked home a rebound of an Amber LaPorte (New Hartford, Conn.) shot.

MCLA tied the score at 1-1 in the 49th minute when Bresett (Adams) was able to knock in a rebound of her own shot.

The Trailblazers had the best opportunity to come up with the golden goal in the first overtime as Bresett hit the crossbar in the 92nd minute and senior forward Jess Tietgens (Stamford, Vt.) knocked the rebound wide.
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Geothermal Switch Lowers System Cost for North Adams School Project

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The cost estimates for the Greylock School project are coming in slightly under budget — including the planned geothermal system. 
 
Initial estimates for the alternative heating system came in at $5 million — $3 million over budget. 
 
"We realized this is never going to work at this cost and we needed to think about the system a little differently," said Jesse Saylor of TSKP Studio, the school's designer, told the School Building Committee on Tuesday. "So we reached out to the well designers and came up with an alternative design, which we feel is much more appropriate for your site."
 
A redesign from using vertical wells to horizontal wells, reduced the costs to $1.5 million.
 
Saylor explained that the drillers had gone down more than 440 feet, through soil and more than 200 feet of bedrock and hit the aquifer, which had to be capped off because of the pressure. 
 
"So our design heading into the cost estimate was to shorten the depth of the wells. Let's not penetrate into that aquifer. Let's just go down 400 feet," he said. "They wanted to carry steel casing all the way down the 400 feet of depth, because the concern is that aquifer depth may vary across across your site, and so that was driving up the initial cost."
 
That vertical system would have required 66 wells and cost about $5 million. Instead, the system will now run horizontally at a depth of about 20 to 30 feet. 
 
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