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By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

HADLEY — Mia Manca had her fingerprints all over No. 9 Narragansett’s 6-2 win over No. 8 Hopkins Academy during the MIAA Division 5 state tournament Round of 16 on Wednesday.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON, RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Old Colony baseball team refused to go away against Frontier in the MIAA Division 4 Round of 32 on Monday. 

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

HADLEY — Trailing 6-0 entering the sixth inning, the Granby softball team gave its best shot at a comeback by rattling off a pair of runs and putting base runners on, but Hopkins Academy’s ace Cassandra Dion shut the door. The Golden Hawks added one more insurance run in the bottom half of the frame and went on to win 7-2 in the Western Massachusetts Class D quarterfinals on Wednesday afternoon.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

It was a fitting end to the regular season for the Northampton boys tennis team, which recorded its 12th consecutive victory on Friday afternoon after defeating East Longmeadow 4-1 at the Smith College Courts.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Kaitlyn Curran and Cassie Flaherty each thumped two hits and scored two runs in the Granby softball team's 6-4 win over Smith Vocational on Thursday at Sheldon Field.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The Amherst Regional softball team picked up its first win of the season on Tuesday, beating Gateway Regional, 21-2.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — It didn’t take long for the Easthampton baseball team’s bats to get rolling, as the Eagles put up 10 runs across the first two innings against Amherst on Monday afternoon at Nonotuck Park.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

The Granby boys volleyball team pulled off another five-set match victory with a five-set win over Athol on Friday.

By GARRETT COTEand JEFF LAJOIE

Winners of seven straight games entering Thursday, the Belchertown baseball team hadn’t been tested in a while. The Orioles’ last six games were all victories by at least six runs. But against a visiting Agawam team, Belchertown found itself in a 2-1 hole entering the bottom of the seventh inning.

By GARRETT COTE and RYAN AMES

NORTHAMPTON — It has been quite the spring season for the Amherst Regional girls track and field team, and Wednesday added to the Hurricanes’ undefeated campaign. Both the Amherst girls and boys defeated Northampton behind terrific performances both on the track and in the field. The Amherst girls won by a score of 103-33.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

For the first time all season, the Granby boys volleyball team dropped consecutive matches as the Rams fell 3-1 to Sci-Tech on Monday evening. The first two sets were as close as it gets, but Granby couldn’t sustain its strong play for the entirety of the contest – losing 26-24, 24-26, 25-18, 25-19.

By GARRETT COTE and RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY — Under a sun-filled field at South Hadley High School, the Granby boys lacrosse team used swarming defense and a tenacious effort to win nearly every ground ball en route to a 7-2 victory over Monson on Friday afternoon.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

It was an extra-inning thriller in South Deerfield on Thursday between the Frontier and Greenfield softball teams. 

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

Claire Fortin and Juliana Albo each had huge days to help the Amherst Regional girls track and field team to a 96-49 victory over Minnechaug on Wednesday afternoon in Wilbraham.

By GARRETT COTE and RYAN AMES

It looked as if the Mahar Regional baseball team was going to pick up its first win of the season heading into the seventh inning against Smith Academy. The Senators held on to a 1-0 lead and kept the Falcons’ bats quiet throughout the entirety of the game.

By GARRETT COTE and RYAM AMES

HADLEY — When the Hopkins and Northampton softball teams met earlier this season, the Golden Hawks handled the Blue Devils with ease – winning 15-2 back on April 9. But on Monday, the two sides matched up a second time and Northampton more than held its own.

By ALEXA LEWISand SAMUEL GELINAS

A wave of mourning rolled through the local Catholic community on Monday following the news of Pope Francis’ death at the age of 88.

By EMILEE KLEINand MADISON SCHOFIELD

NORTHAMPTON — Brunch restaurant Jake’s in Northampton is scrambling for eggs.

By SCOTT MERZBACH, ALEXA LEWIS, CHRIS LARABEE, and ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

NORTHAMPTON — The vague language in the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding Tuesday evening prompted “chaos” and “confusion” among organizations dependent upon the trillions of dollars potentially impacted.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERIand DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A 66-year-old Westfield man was found dead after he fell into a sand silo at Chicopee Concrete Service on Friday morning.

By SCOTT MERZBACH,EMILEE KLEIN andALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Lowering higher education costs, supporting K-12 public education, confronting climate change, creating more housing and protecting and expanding health care and reproductive care are among the priorities this year for the legislative...