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By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The little missteps or cracks that slipped by during the Atlantic 10 regular season cost the UMass women’s lacrosse team in the NCAA Tournament.Johns Hopkins pounded the Minutewomen in the first quarter and held them off for a 19-8 victory in Friday’s...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The UMass hockey team’s 2023-24 schedule features two Frozen Four participants in the first six games and five total teams that reached the NCAA tournament.Released Friday with a video tour through the Minutemen’s locker room, the schedule opens with...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Sam Breen will make her USA Basketball debut at the USA 3x3 Women’s National Team Trials this weekend in Colorado Springs, Colorado.The former UMass forward is one of 18 athletes that will be evaluated for spots on the 2023-24 national teams. The pool...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Wins and losses barely register when Johns Hopkins women’s lacrosse coach Tim McCormack remembers his time at UMass.He played goalie for the Minutemen from 2008-2012, captaining the team his final two years. McCormack ranks eighth all-time at UMass...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – In addition to reaching the NCAA Tournament, the UMass women’s lacrosse program was recognized with two members of the USA Lacrosse Magazine All-America teams Wednesday.Senior attacker Fiona McGowan was named to the second team, while senior...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Losing the Atlantic 10 championship game against Richmond reminded the UMass women’s lacrosse team of lessons it didn’t follow as rigidly in the preceding 15-game winning streak. A third quarter lull the Minutewomen usually worked through...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

They both have banners hanging in the Mullins Center, but former UMass men’s basketball coach John Calipari and Hobey Baker winner Cale Makar met at ground level Tuesday night.Calipari, the University of Kentucky coach since 2009, posted a photo with...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH HADLEY – Tyson Dyck traded his spot on the line chart for a tee time.The UMass freshman who finished his first season playing hockey for the Minutemen this spring competed in the U.S. Open Local Qualifier on Tuesday at the Orchards Golf Club in...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH HADLEY —  Chris Tallman played the Orchards Golf Club with a home course advantage.The South Hadley native was a junior member at the course and spent four years as its general manager from 2019 to earlier this year. His familiarity with every...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

A second consecutive Atlantic 10 Championship game loss in a row didn’t bar the UMass women’s lacrosse team from the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year.Richmond defeated the Minutewomen 20-12  on Sunday afternoon to earn the league’s...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

R.J. Luis stayed in the UMass family.The freshman transfer guard that left the Minutemen after an Atlantic 10 all-freshman first team season announced he’ll join former UMass point guard Rick Pitino at St. John’s on Sunday.Luis averaged 11.5 points...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Richmond senior Lindsey Frank ripped out the UMass women’s lacrosse team’s heart in the second half of Sunday’s Atlantic 10 championship game.She scored five of her six goals after halftime, including three in a 1-minute, 44-second stretch that...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Richmond put the ball in the net 37 seconds into its Atlantic 10 men’s lacrosse semifinal against UMass on Thursday and never looked back.The second-seeded Spiders defeated the No. 3 Minutemen 15-8 on their home field in Virginia to reach the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

After tweeting exclusively eye emojis for days, Frank Martin can finally explain why he’s so fired up. The UMass men’s basketball team rounded out its roster with two more freshmen and another South Carolina import. Martin can’t discuss recruits or...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Center Dans Locmelis will join the UMass hockey program for the 2023-24 season, the Minutemen announced. He was a fourth round pick by the Boston Bruins in 2022 and scored 59 points with 25 goals for Lulea HF of the Swedish Hockey League’s U20 team....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HADLEY – Vengeful thunder rang out from Liam Skribiski-Banack’s bat every time he made contact.The Frontier Regional baseball captain woke up with a “fire lit in [his] belly” Thursday morning ahead of the Redhawks’ second meeting with Hopkins Academy....

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GRANBY – Smith Academy starter Griffin Smiarowski stared down Granby hitters unflinchingly for seven innings. He struck out seven and didn’t walk any in a four-hit shutout Wednesday, as the Falcons capitalized on one Granby mistake in a 1-0 win.“I'll...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Matt Knote is a rock, steady and consistent.The UMass men’s lacrosse team relies on its senior goalie. He’s proven more than reliable, leading the Atlantic 10 and ranking third in the country with an 8.89 goals against average. Knote saves...

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SOUTH HADLEY – The ball trickled across the South Hadley goal line in pouring rain, terminating the Tigers’ comeback.East Longmeadow’s Declan Baxter scooped it away from South Hadley goalie Bennett Allen in overtime just outside the crease shortly...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Once Ellis Merriweather steps on the Green Bay Packers practice field, it won’t matter that he wasn’t drafted.It won’t matter that he went to junior college or UMass. Or that the team hadn’t contacted him much during the draft process.He’ll have a...