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Greg Vreeland called his older brother, Hopkins Academy baseball coach Dan Vreeland, over to the hitting tunnel set up near the field. The mesh cage allowed the Golden Hawks’ junior varsity call ups and bench players to take batting practice swings...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Stubbornness, in part, drives Southampton’s Michael Rejniak in The Basketball Tournament. He’s entering the We Are D3 team in the 2023 edition for the fifth time since 2018. The program is 0-4, losing tight contests to a UCLA alumni team in 2018, a...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The Frontier Regional boys volleyball program wouldn’t exist without Jesse Kurkulonis.Inspired by the success of his friends on the Redhawks girls team, which has won 11 state championships including last fall, he began inquiring with newly minted...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

DEVENS — Sequels rarely measure up.The West softball team faced Southeast twice on the final day of Bay State Games competition Thursday. Their first matchup concluded pool play, and both teams had already secured a rematch in the afternoon gold medal...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Two New England basketball coaching legends will welcome one of their own to the hall of fame.Three-time national champion longtime UConn coach Jim Calhoun and former UMass coach John Calipari, now at Kentucky, will present Amherst College’s Dave...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UMass hockey alum Steve Mastalerz is returning to the Minutemen to impart his near decade of coaching experience.He’ll serve as the program’s Director of Player of Development, the team announced Tuesday. After four years in the Mullins Center crease,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

DEVENS – The West needed to sweat out its perfect Bay State Games softball record in more ways than one.Temperatures hovered in the mid to high 80s and low 90s at Willard Field all day Wednesday, and Central pitcher Hannah Reardon turned up the heat...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The Easthampton football community lost one of its pillars when Easthampton High School coach Matt Bean passed away Thursday.The 62-year-old Southampton resident started Easthampton Youth Football in 1999 and took over the high school team in 2015...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Reilly Fowles works with wood as a hobby. He’s built a workout bench, tables, shelves and a desk among other projects. The Northampton sophomore peers into life’s corners and crevices that interest him.The Daily Hampshire Gazette Boys Tennis Player of...

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The fastest woman over 200 meters in the world comes from Florence, Massachusetts.Gabby Thomas blitzed a stacked field at the USA Track & Field National championships, breaking the tape in 21.60 seconds at Hayward Field in Oregon on Sunday. That mark...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

FITCHBURG — Allison Fleury knew exactly where Lauren Marjanski would send the ball when their eyes met. Marjanski, her South Hadley teammate, simultaneously knew where Fleury would be.“We know how each other plays, and we make runs and moves off of...

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UMass grad Heather MacLean posted a season-best time but couldn't break out of the pack in the women’s 1,500-meter final at the USATF Outdoor Nationals on Saturday in Eugene, Oregon.She placed seventh in 4 minutes, 5.29 seconds. That was more than two...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Florence’s Gabby Thomas cruised into the women’s 200-meter semifinals at the USATF Outdoor National Championships on Saturday night at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.She led wire to wire in Heat 1 and crossed the line in 22.28 seconds. The Williston...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

FITCHBURG – The orange befits Rachel Yabra and her South Hadley teammate Kiana Ramos. The “Central” emblazoned on their back looks out of place on the pair’s Bay State Games girls soccer jerseys, especially when four fellow Tigers play in red for the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

A torn hamstring cost Gabby Thomas the opportunity to compete at last year’s USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. It’s a common injury with a relatively short recovery time – six weeks. “I’ve torn my hamstring before,” the Florence native said....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UMass grad Heather MacLean ran a tactical 1,500 meters to qualify for the USA Track & Field outdoor championships final.The 2021 Olympian crossed the line second in Heat 2 of Thursday’s first round, comfortably in the top three to advance. MacLean...

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BOSTON – Boom. Boom. Boom.Those weren’t belated fireworks at Monan Field at BC High. The West team scored all of its runs with three home run blasts to defeat the Central squad 6-5 on Thursday to close out Day 2 of Bay State Games baseball...

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Amherst native John Leonard will suit up for his third NHL franchise after signing a one-year deal with the Arizona Coyotes, the team announced Monday night.The former UMass forward agreed to a one-year, two-way contract. He spent last season in the...

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Wildens Leveque will return to the SEC.The UMass men’s basketball graduate transfer forward will use his extra season of eligibility to play for Texas A&M, he announced Monday.Leveque entered the transfer portal in mid June after one season as a...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The transfer portal forced a dramatic turnover of the UMass hockey team’s roster for the third season in a row. Nine players that could have returned to the program left, which altered the makeup of the Minutemen’s incoming class. Greg Carvel and his...