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Lee's Fraser Leads Team to Williams Invitational Win

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Lee's Thomas Fraser carded rounds of 70 and 74 to finish 2-over-par at Taconic Golf Club and lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic men's golf team to the championshp of this weekend's Williams Fall Invitational.
 
The Engineers finished a combined 15 strokes over par at the two-day event, 12 strokes better than runner-up Skidmore College.
 
Fraser, a senior for the Engineers, placed fifth last year at the Liberty League Championships and was named a Golf Coaches Association of America all-America Scholar.
 
Eighteen teams competed in this weekend's event.
 
The hosts from Williams placed fourth behind John Pagano and Will Rich, who each finished 6-over for the weekend and tied for 10th.
 
Women's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Blakeley Buckingham scored late in the first half Sunday to give Williams a 1-0 win over Tufts.
 
Leyla Kamshad made 10 saves to earn the win in goal.
 
Williams (3-2, 2-1 NESCAC) goes to Colby on Saturday.
 
Men's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Will Felitto scored his second goal of the game midway through the second half to erase a one-goal deficit and send Williams to a 2-2 tie against Tufts.
 
Ben Diffley made four saves for Williams (2-0-3, 1-0-1), which goes to Colby on Saturday.
 
Field Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Kylie Rosenquest scored in overtime to give Tufts a 2-1 win over Williams.
 
Pilar Torres and Kiki Higgins scored for the hosts.
 
Carson Stephenson and Gates Tenerowicz split time in Williams' goal, stopping nine shots.
 
Williams (3-2, 0-2) goes to Colby on Saturday.
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Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing Awarded $500K

BOSTON — the Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced $21.4 million in tax incentive awards to 19 life sciences companies. 
 
In Berkshire County, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing of Lee was awarded $500,000.
 
The awards, provided through the MLSC’s Tax Incentive Program, are expected to create 1,155 new life sciences industry jobs in Massachusetts.
 
"We must continue to meet the moment and send a strong signal to companies here in Massachusetts and globally that our state remains the best place in the world to launch and scale life sciences solutions," said Governor Maura Healey. "Becoming the global hub of the life sciences doesn’t happen by accident. These awards will allow our state to accelerate innovation and job creation and transform lives around the world." 
 
The MLSC Tax Incentive program is offered to companies engaged in life sciences research and development, commercialization, and manufacturing in Massachusetts, and provides incentives to companies of all sizes looking to expand their efforts by creating new, long-term jobs in the state.
 
Out of the 19 companies receiving tax incentive awards, 17 companies—accounting for 72 percent of the new jobs—are expanding in communities outside of Boston and Cambridge. Through this program, life sciences companies have committed to the creation of more than 18,000 jobs since the MLSC’s inception.
 
The MLSC jointly administers the Tax Incentive Program with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, which oversees the technical administration of the incentives. Awardees are required to maintain job commitments over a five-year period. The program includes regular reporting requirements for awardees to document jobs created as a result of the incentive. MLSC has continued to use the Tax Incentive Program to leverage diverse life sciences assets across Massachusetts and encourage growth, expansion and retention on a statewide basis.  
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