Chris' Girls Come From Behind to Reach Torchia League Final

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
09:36PM / Tuesday, August 26, 2025Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Chris’ Girls Tuesday overcame a 14-3 deficit to earn a 22-17 win over Club Wyndham to reach the title round of the Pat Torchia Softball League.

Karen White went 3-for-3, scored three runs and went the distance in the circle as Chris’ Girls won the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination tournament and earned a berth in Wednesday’s final against Ayrhill Farms.

Chris’ Girls will need to beat Ayrhill Farms on Wednesday to get to a winner-take-all final on Thursday at Disanti Field.

On Tuesday, Club Wyndham scored seven times in the second inning to take a 7-3 lead and built an 11-run advantage, thanks, in part, to a two-run double by Rachel Desautels and a two-run single from Laura O’Neil.

But Chris’ Girls used patience at the plate to whittle away at that lead.

They worked five walks and got a two-run single from Laura Feder in a six-run fifth inning to make it 14-9.

After White threw a 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the fifth, three more walks helped fuel a four-run rally for Chris’ Girls in the sixth as they got within a run.

Club Wyndham got its offense going again in the bottom of the sixth, when Kate Haring and Desautels each drove in a run to help their team pull ahead, 17-13.

Needing at least four runs to stay alive in their final at-bat, Chris’ Girls scored nine.

Again, free passes were a major factor. Club Wyndham, which went into the game without its two regular pitchers, used three pitchers in the top of the seventh, when Chris’ Girls walked eight times, including seven in a row at one point.

Club Wyndham got a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh, but White induced a fly ball to left for out No. 2 and ended the game with the night’s only strikeout.

Chris’ Girls and Ayrhill Farms will play at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Q&A with State Representative Challenger Andrew Fitch

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:01AM / Sunday, August 23, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On Sept. 1, voters in the First Berkshire District will decide whether they want to send a new representative to Beacon Hill in Boston.

Andrew Fitch, currently a city councilor in the district's largest municipality — and the commonwealth's smallest city — is challenging former North Adams Mayor John Barrett III, who won the First Berkshire seat in a 2017 special election, in the Democratic Party primary.

There is no Republican on the primary ballot for the First Berkshire seat so the primary will effectively be the election for the seat.

The two candidates met for their only debate on Aug. 13 at Williams College. iBerkshires.com reached out to both candidates to follow up on some of the points raised in the debate and get their thoughts on some other issues facing the district.

Below are excerpts from a conversation with challenger Andrew Fitch:

Question: From the very beginning, you talked about the campaign as a listening experience, and this week you're continuing that with the bike tour …

Andrew Fitch: Knocking on doors that have never been knocked on before. … I was riding through, I believe it was Hinsdale coming into Windsor, and they started to yell at me, 'No!' And then the guy was like, 'Wait a second. That's Andrew Fitch.' They actually knew who I was, and they were actually wanting to chat with me.

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