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The Lee youth football seniors celebrate their league championship on Saturday at Berkshire Community College.

Lee Seniors Win County Youth Football League Title

By Leland BarnesiBerkshires.com Sports
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Bryce Hoff led Lee's offense and scored the game's only touchdown.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Lee Seniors Saturday won back-to-back Berkshire County Youth Football League championships with consecutive undefeated seasons.
 
Lee, who has been unbeaten since 2022, continued its reign of dominance with an 8-0 win over Pittsfield at Berkshire Community College.
 
Lee’s Bryce Hoff went 59 yards for a rushing touchdown in the first quarter, and it ended up the only score in the contest.
 
Pittsfield, who had only lost one game in their season to Lee, early looked to find revenge in the championship game rematch.
 
Lee had a really good run game for the most part, with Hoff getting most of the carries.
 
Pittsfield made it tough for the South County powers to find good passing options.
 
Pittsfield’s defensive backs found ways to prevent the big plays that Lee is known to make.
 
Pittsfield Head Coach Lavonte Wiggins seemed very passionate during the game, exhorting his players with phrases like “you earned this game.” 
 
But Pittsfield’s offense had some issues early into the game with its snaps, allowing Lee to have good field position.
 
Pittsfield’s defense did not allow any big yardage – outside of Hoff’s score – and stopped Lee on four separate occasions.
 
The teams combined to not be able to convert any fourth down plays.
 
Lee gave a lot of opportunities to Pittsfield in the red zone but, unfortunately for the Bulldogs, miscommunications caused bad timing fumbles.
 
It was a back-and-forth game all afternoon with both defenses excelling, forcing turnovers on downs and recovering fumbles.
 
Following the third quarter, both teams looked heavily equal style wise, with both teams running the ball most plays.
 
Neither team would find the end zone following the big run play by Lee.
 
Lee had some big plays on defense against Pittsfield, one including an 8-yard tackle-for-loss on a screenplay by Mason Lucy.
 
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County's 'Super Six' Head to Final Four

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
Out of 10 No. 1 seeds in the MIAA basketball tournaments this winter – five boys, five girls – nine are still playing.
 
Those nine did not have to play the Lee High girls basketball team.
 
The ninth-seeded Wildcats pulled off arguably the season’s biggest upset on Saturday when they upended No. 1 Hopedale to reach this week’s state semi-final round.
 
On Sunday afternoon, the Lee girls got together to celebrate their Final Four berth in style, cutting down one of the nets in their gymnasium and boarding a flatbed for a parade down Main Street.
 
Senior captain Mia Puleri said that Lee, which trailed by as many as 15 in the fourth quarter on Saturday, was just the kind of team that could overcome that deficit on the road in a hostile environment against a heavy favorite.
 
“I think that our team is very level-headed,” Puleri said. “It’s something that we really pride ourselves on – not getting too excited, in the sense that that can go too fast and you can be almost too emotional sometimes.
 
“So we try to stay very even keeled, which means not getting too down or getting too high before the game is over. I think in the second half yesterday, when the pressure was building on Hopedale, we were still very even, because we had nothing to lose. We were the nine seed. They were the one seed.”
 
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