PITTSFIELD , Mass. — Cam Sievers’ 11 strikeouts and a strong third inning at the plate Saturday led Dalton-Hinsdale past Great Barrington, 8-1, in the first game of the Donald Gleason 12-year-old Little League District 1 Tournament.
Sievers, Nate Dearborn and Sully Duquette combined on a no-hitter with 15 strikeouts as DH started pool play with a 1-0 record. On Sunday at noon, Dalton-Hinsdale will be tested by Pittsfield, which took a 16-1 decision over Great Barrington in the other pool play matchup.
Parker Lussier went 2-for-2 with two RBIs as well as a stolen base to boost DH offense.
C.J Wilds also led the DH offense, going 2-for-2 with 2 RBI’s as well as scoring twice.
“We had a great opening game, had some nerves going into it,” DH coach Dustin Sievers said. “As you could tell we were really early on a lot of pitches, once we settled in we were good.”
Great Barrington played tough all game, working six walks – three of which loaded the bases and led to GB’s run in the top of the sixth.
Matthew Peck drew a free pass to start the inning and ended up racing home on a pitch to the backstop.
Defensively Great Barrington was spot on, making multiple difficult plays look easy.
It was a 2-0 game for Dalton-Hinsdale until it exploded for five in the third inning.
Wilds and Lussier each drove in a pair of runs in the rally.
DH tacked on a run in the bottom of the fight. Lui Gardner hit a two-out single and eventually scored on Thomas Kuzdeba’s RBI single.
Sievers went 4 and one-third innings on the mound, striking out 11 and walking just two.
Great Barrington will look for its first win of the District 1 tourney on Sunday when it faces Adams-Cheshire at 2 p.m.
Pittsfield 27, Adams-Cheshire 0
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Pittsfield 12-year-old All-Stars scored 19 times in the first inning and never looked back in a convincing win at Deming Park.
Weston Wigglesworth led off the game with a solo home run and added another homer later in a 4-for-4, four-RBI performance.
Wigglesworth also started on the mound and struck out the side, the first of three Pittsfield pitchers to do so on a day when they amassed 10 Ks in a three-inning ballgame.
Mike Ressler and Mateo Fox also took a turn on the hill for Pittsfield, playing its first post-season after combining the city’s two Little League divisions over the winter.
Sawyer Layne went 4-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs. Spencer Kotski was 3-for-3 with a homer and six RBIs. And Kody Lesser was 3-for-3, doubling twice, with four runs batted in.
Patrick Wells-Vidal reached base a strikeout for Adams-Cheshire in the second inning. Cole Kalisz and Jasiah Brown split the pitching duties for AC, staying in the strike zone all afternoon.
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Belchertown Stops Pittsfield Post 68
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Belchertown Post 239’s Cooper Beckwith set the tone when he crushed the game’s first pitch to left-center field for a double.
The visitors went on to pound out 14 more hits in a 9-1 win over Pittsfield Post 68 in American Legion Baseball action at Buddy Pellerin Field on Monday night.
Beckwith went 3-for-4 with an RBI and scored twice, and Chase Earle went five innings on the mound without allowing an earned run as Post 239 improved to 15-0 this summer and completed a regular-season sweep of Post 68 (12-4).
“He’s a good pitcher,” Post 68 coach Rick Amuso said. “Good velo[city], kept the ball down. We didn’t respond.”
Pittsfield did manage to scratch out a run in the bottom of the fourth inning, when it already trailed, 7-0.
Nick Brindle reached on an error to start the inning. He moved up on a single by Jack Reed (2-for-2) and scored on a single to left by Cam Zerbato.
That was half the hits allowed by Earle, who struck out three before giving the ball to Alex West, who gave up a leadoff walk in the sixth and retired the next six batters he faced.
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