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PITTSFIELD — Six dominant wins in the heat over three days.
FILE - Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins calls out instructions during an NCAA softball game against South Dakota State, on May 20, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Hutchins, the winningest coach in college softball history, said she was informed of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the abortion rights provisions of Roe v. Wade via news alerts on her phone Friday. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
In the 50 years since the landmark law was passed, profound strides have been made in women and girls’ participation in sports. According to the Women’s Sports Foundation, women now make up 44% of all NCAA athletes, compared to just 15% in 1971. Nearly 3.5 million high school girls play sports, compared to less than 300,000 in 1972. But for Black women and women of color in sports, those gains have not been equally shared, reflecting the limitations of a policy that only addresses equity on the basis of sex and gender.
FILE - U.S. softball player Natasha Watley runs during practice Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Watley, a Black woman and two-time Olympic medalist in softball, started playing when she was 5. She did not have a Black teammate until she was a teenager and said there were so few girls of color who played with her and went on to college teams that she could count them on one hand. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
FILE - President Bush holds a jersey with UCLA women's softball captain Natasha Watley as the team as he met with the reigning NCAA champions in several sports, in the East Room event at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2003. Fifty years after the passage of Title IX, racial disparities still exist for women in college athletics. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
This week in the Designated Hitter column, Howard Herman grades out the first full year of the MIAA's new state tournament format.
DALTON — On an overcast early evening in Pine Grove Park, Team Downer bested Team Belcher, 8-4, to win the Berkshire County Softball All-Star Game.
All good things must come to an end; on Wednesday, so too did Wahconah softball’s season.
Joe DiCicco's "Striking Out Cancer in The Berkshires" baseball event is Saturday at Clapp Park's Buddy Pellerin Field. Baseball and softball games will be played from 9:30 a.m., until sunset. Proceeds are to benefit the Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Center.
A number of Massachusetts high schools have placed multiple teams into the Final Four rounds of the MIAA state tournaments this year. Wahconah might be the only one to have one coach take two different teams into the Final Four. He did it with the Wahconah boys basketball team and is doing it with the softball team.
