National Sports

It isn’t about adding new pieces to the puzzle. Instead, coaches are using the few remaining pieces as a head start toward a puzzle that needs to be solved.

After a year away from Pittsfield, Matt Gedman will be back in the third base dugout for the Futures League’s Suns in 2021. That time is getting close.

PITTSFIELD — The Generals cranked their offense to a new gear late to pull away from visiting Monument Mountain on Tuesday.

DALTON — Rick Paris said he was nervous before his first game as Mount Greylock’s new baseball coach. The Mounties had some pre-game issues off the field and with a couple of players hurt, they were a little shorthanded.

WILLIAMSTOWN — The sun was out, it was raining sideways and Mount Everett was the designated home team at Mount Greylock — its just been one of those school years.

There will be postseason competition for high school track and field athletes.

John-Michael Harden is packing his bags this summer. 

DALTON — Hannah Bowlby and the Wahconah girls lacrosse team waited an extra year to take the field, but once they did the Warriors unloaded some pent up frustrations and offense.

Winning NCAA Division III national championships is nothing new at Williams College, considering that Ephs sports teams have captured 36 NCAA titles and have all but owned the Division III Director’s Cup, which signifies the best overall athletic program in the division, for a couple of decades.

It wasn’t the “Shot heard ‘round the world,” but hitting a home run in one’s final college baseball at-bat is still a pretty good way to bring down the curtain.