Sportswriter-Columnist
Jack Cangelosi puts a ball in play down the third-base line. He reached on one of Hopedale's three errors in the game.
It was the silence that echoed across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Mount Greylock baseball team won its first-ever state championship on Saturday, beating top-seeded Hopedale 3-1. That the Mounties did it without a hit will make it a memory for a lifetime.
“Never in a million years,” Greylock outfielder Anthony Welch said, when asked if he could ever have imagined winning a state title that way.
“It’s crazy,” Greylock catcher Derek Paris said at the time.
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Howard Herman can be reached at hherman@berkshireeagle.com or 413-496-6253.
Sportswriter-Columnist
Howard Herman is a sports columnist at The Berkshire Eagle. The dean of full-time sportswriters in Western Mass., he has been with the Eagle since 1988, and is a member of the New England Baseball and Basketball Hall of Fame.
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