BINGHAMTON — The Adirondack Region open women’s softball team pounded its way to a championship Saturday.

Courtney Brinkman hit a bases-clearing double, and Michelle Connors launched a two-run home run as the local group of all-stars rolled to their second gold-medal victory in 23 years of Empire State Games competition, defeating Western, 7-4, at the BAGSAI Softball Complex.

Adirondack took a 7-2, fifth-inning lead on the blast by Connors, and she was the seventh different player to go deep in the tournament. Adirondack (5-1) piled up 47 runs this week, with a low of five coming in Saturday morning’s 6-5 loss to Hudson Valley.

“In past years, we’ve gotten them [home runs] from one player. Denise Denis hit five of them in 2004,” said Mike DiNova, who has coached every Adirondack team. “To have seven different players hit one, it’s unbelievable. I don’t know what to say.”

Seven different players accounted for seven hits in the gold medal contest, with Jen Granato’s RBI single giving Adirondack a 1-0 lead in the first, and Amanda Ferro’s RBI double, after Brinkman’s key blow in the fourth, making it 5-1.

“I felt we’d be a pretty decent hitting team this year, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Brinkman, a graduate of Troy High School who plays for Siena College. “It was concentration and confidence.”

“Tremendous clutch hitting,”said Connors, who played at Shenendehowa before moving on to the University at Albany. “You can’t ask for more.”

But Adirondack got more, as Jen Mineau picked up her third pitching victory of the tournament, and Shannon Jones delivered the game’s biggest defensive play to quell a Western (4-2) comeback bid.

“It felt really good. It felt like I was contributing a lot to the team,” said Jones, who’ll be entering her senior year at Troy High in the fall. “That changed momentum like crazy. I saw all their heads drop, and ours went up.”

Ashley Bonetto hit her second home run for Western in the sixth, a two-run shot to make it 7-4, and Mineau walked Kristin Brunetto after the drive. Michelle Friday followed with a sinking line drive to right field which Jones caught and then doubled up Brunetto with a strong throw to first.

“That was huge. They had two runs in and a runner on,” said Connors. “That changed mom­entum to us and flattened them right out.”

Mineau ended the sixth with a strikeout and hurled a perfect seventh as Adirondack improved to 2-6 in championship games. Adirondack won its first title in 2005, and lost in finals the past two years.

“This feels great, and one of the reasons is right there,” said DiNova as he pointed toward his wife, Dottie. “When we won it the last time she was tending to my mother, who was ill, and she couldn’t be there. I’m so happy she could see this.”

Bonetto tied the game at one with a solo homer in the fourth inning before Adirondack put up four in the bottom half. Granato reached on a fielder’s choice, Connors was struck by a Christine Keleher pitch and Jones singled to set the stage for Brinkman’s three-run double to center field.

“This is the best-hitting team I’ve coached at the Games,” said DiNova. “If you’re an opposing pitcher, you might get through a couple of hitters, but you can’t stop the whole group.”

Western made it 5-2 in the fifth on Mary Russell’s RBI double, and Connors went deep in the bottom of the inning, drilling a Keleher offering over the center field fence. Amanda Schettini was hit by a pitch before Connors connected with two outs.

“Jones throwing that runner out. Connors with the big homer. Granato getting us started and Mineau getting her third win. So many girls did things that helped us win this,” said DiNova.