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By HANNAH BEVIS 

WESTFIELD – Emma Sanford, the model of consistency, captured another state title at the MIAA Division 6 Track & Field Championships at Westfield State University on Thursday. The senior took first place in the pentathlon with a score of 3,160 points,...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

After winning the New England Prep School Ultimate League title last season as underdogs, the Williston Northampton School boys’ ultimate team came into this year’s NEPSUL looking much different. The Wildcats hadn’t lost a game yet this season and...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

EASTHAMPTON – A six-run third inning offensive explosion gave the Northampton baseball team the boost it needed against Easthampton on Wednesday.The visiting Blue Devils won their third game of the season in a 14-2 victory in five innings. Pitcher...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

WESTHAMPTON — With the game still scoreless after two and a half innings, it seemed like the Hampshire Regional softball team was poised to make some noise in the bottom of the third.Rachael Hickox reached first with a solid bunt and moved over to...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

When Nola Busansky was a sophomore on Northampton’s girls’ ultimate team, her squad did not win a single game. Playing almost entirely against powerhouse schools Amherst and Four Rivers, the Blue Devils were regularly blown out, struggling to score...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Junior Perez wanted a change. The longtime coach had been around softball for almost 30 years, most recently as the junior varsity coach at Chicopee High School for the past 15 years. At 62 years old, retirement seemed like it would be the next step...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Fifth year senior Gina Carroll didn’t have to think too hard about whether or not she would return for her extra year of eligibility with the UMass women’s lacrosse team.Besides the year she lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, Carroll also tore her ACL the...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

SOUTH HADLEY – When the top of the third inning rolled around in South Hadley’s game against Springfield International on Friday, the Tigers were in a good spot. The hosts led 2-0 with pitcher Isabella Schaeffer throwing darts from the circle to...

By JAMES PENTLAND 

CUMMINGTON — An early morning fire claimed one adult resident’s life and injured another, state and local fire officials said Friday.“On behalf of the Cummington Fire Department, I want to express our heartfelt condolences to the victim’s family,”...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Fiona Bundy’s first memory of her now-best friend Sophia Schaefer isn’t a typical one. Northampton native Schaefer and Easthampton native Bundy both went to the same kindergarten at the Smith College Campus School, but weren’t in the same class, so...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Another UMass women’s basketball star is taking her talents somewhere else. Guard Sydney Taylor confirmed that she would be transferring to the University of Louisville for her last year of NCAA eligibility.Taylor announced that she was entering the...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

WESTHAMPTON – Trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the seventh inning Thursday, the Hampshire Regional softball team wasn’t panicking against opponent Wachusett. Teaghan Charles calmly led off the inning, knocking a grounder into left field to get on first...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

The Northampton track and field program has always had talent, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Blue Devils have lacked some of the depth they’ve had in past seasons. Teddy King-Pollet and Rowan Hodgson decided to take matters into their own hands...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Emma Sanford has been a mainstay on the South Hadley track team for her entire high school career, rapidly climbing the ranks to becoming one of the best multi-event athletes in Western Mass. But while she’s been making every event she competes in...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

The Hampshire Regional softball team graduated six seniors last year after making it to the MIAA Division 4 quarterfinals, leaving more than a few question marks around how they would fill those gaps this season.But if Hampshire softball has proven...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

AMHERST – The Battle of the Bridge is always a game that the Amherst and Northampton boys lacrosse teams circle on their calendars.Thursday afternoon was no exception.With the sun beating down during one of the hottest days yet this spring, the...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Winning a state title isn’t just about talent and hard work – though that certainly plays a large part of it.For Amherst junior David Pinero-Jacome and his coach Bob Rosen, it was also about planning.The two spent the season experimenting with...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — The town election on May 16 will feature contested elections for three-year seats on the Select Board and Board of Health, and the three-year position as town clerk.With nomination forms due late last month, the ballot will feature a...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

AMHERST – There wasn’t an empty seat inside a packed Massachusetts room at the Mullins Center on Wednesday afternoon. It seemed as though the entire UMass athletics department had turned out for new women’s basketball coach Mike Leflar’s introductory...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

NORTHAMPTON – The Northampton baseball team came close to picking up its first win of the season against East Longmeadow, but couldn’t quite close things out against the Spartans on Tuesday afternoon. Northampton dropped an 8-4 decision to the...