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By GEORGE MILLER

SOUTH DEERFIELD — If the key to football success is having a standout running back get his toe stepped on in the lead-up to a game, maybe more teams would make that annoyingly painful decision.Josiah Little didn't let his own banged-up toe slow him...

By GEORGE MILLER

EASTHAMPTON – The final ledger won't come out unblemished for Williston Northampton football, but the Wildcats still have one more game in the bank for themselves this fall.Williston rode a 7-0 start to the season into Saturday's regular-season finale...

By GEORGE MILLER

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Through the preseason, Scott Dredge had the notion that defense would be the real calling card for Frontier football, and the Redhawks' 2024 season opener Friday night played out just that way.The hosts came up empty on the...

By GEORGE MILLER

NORTHAMPTON — They may not have been the biggest 30 seconds of Bri Heafey's playing career, but they may have felt like 30 minutes as they played out.Northampton led Mansfield 46-44 in the final minute of their girls MIAA Division 2 Round of 16...

By GEORGE MILLER

SOUTH DEERFIELD — It's got to do a basketball coach's heart a world of good when his team doesn't allow a single basket in the first quarter.Frontier Regional flexed its typically strong defensive muscles Thursday night, running out to a 20-2 lead...

By GEORGE MILLER

NORTHAMPTON — Just over two months on the calendar separated two similar meat-grinder ballgames between Northampton and Minnechaug, but Wednesday night’s rematch promised the golden ticket to Saturday’s Western Mass. girls Class A championship.On Dec....

By GEORGE MILLER

AMHERST – Saturday's first half tripped up UMass with turnovers and left the Minutemen in a deep hole in their final game of 2023, deep-sixing their chance to equal the high-water mark in the program's Division I FBS history.Connecticut opened with an...

By GEORGE MILLER

BILLERICA — Nothing Belchertown had seen so far this season could have prepared the Orioles for the major step up in class and competition they faced Friday night.Shawsheen Valley Tech piled up three touchdowns in each of the first two quarters en...

By GEORGE MILLER

NORTHAMPTON — The game was right there for Smith Vocational's taking Monday afternoon, and then just as quickly snatched away.With a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth, the 11th-seeded Vikings grabbed a 4-3 lead over 22nd-seeded Sutton in their...

By GEORGE MILLER

NORTHAMPTON – An early deficit and a couple of times through the batting order proved just what Smith Vocational needed Thursday to punch its ticket to the Western Mass. Class C baseball final.The top-seeded Vikings fell behind Lenox 2-0 after only...

By GEORGE MILLER

EASTHAMPTON – A pair of regular-season meetings produced a 29-2 combined score in Easthampton's favor, but in Tuesday's third time around at Nonotuck Park's Wilby Field, the Eagles suddenly found themselves in the fight of their Western Mass. softball...

By GEORGE MILLER

WESTHAMPTON — When two teams are separated by exactly one seed line in tournament play, that number suggests a tight and evenly-matched game, but that’s not how the first nine minutes played out Wednesday night at Zalot Gym.Hampshire Regional bolted...

By GEORGE MILLER

HADLEY – The return engagement of second seed Hopkins Academy and seventh seed Smith Academy in the Western Mass. Class D quarterfinals played out far differently this time around.Hopkins won the 2022 matchup in a breeze, 50-32. Monday night's rematch...