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By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The fifth installment of the Franklin Tech-Smith Vocational Turkey Day football game will feature a pair of teams who reached the semifinals of the MVADA Small School Vocational Tournament. It’s been a strong season for both the Eagles and the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Liberty offense was able to get whatever it wanted on the ground against the Massachusetts football defense on Saturday in Lynchburg, Va. The Flames ran the ball 51 times and gained 324 yards, good for 6.4 yards per carry. Four of those runs found...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — It was a strong showing from multiple Hampshire County schools at the MIAA Division 3 state qualifier at Northfield Mountain on Saturday. Competing in the 3B boys wave, Hampshire picked up a second place team finish. With the top seven...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Monomoy boys soccer team wasn’t going to go away easily against Frontier. The ninth-seeded Sharks made the long bus ride from Harwich to South Deerfield to take on the eight-seeded Redhawks in the MIAA Div. 4 Round of 16 on...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE – On paper, Division 8 schools aren’t supposed to be able to hang with Division 4 schools. Somebody forgot to tell the Mahar football team that. Hosting Northampton on Friday at the Woodward Complex, the Senators knew they would need a...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s not easy to win games without your starting quarterback. It becomes daunting when you have to turn to your third string QB. Thankfully for the UMass football team, the latter shouldn’t be the case on Saturday when it travels to play Eastern...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Longtime Turners Falls High School track and field coach Ron Hebert passed away last week at the age of 83.Hebert, who grew up in Northampton, attended Northampton High School and later graduated from Springfield College, was heavily involved in the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
There was a phrase Massachusetts football coach Don Brown continued to use during his press conference on Monday ahead of the Minutemen’s opening game of the season against New Mexico State: prove it. Brown and his staff went into the offseason with...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
AMHERST — The UMass and New Mexico State football teams met in the final game of the season in 2021, a forgettable contest in which both squads entered with identical 1-10 records and were crawling to the finish line.When the Minutemen and the Aggies...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional athletic department will have a new leader this fall. Dave Sanschagrin — who previously served as the athletic director at Southwick High School — was hired to replace Carl Cyr as the Redhawks’ athletic...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The 42nd Montague Mug Race is set for Saturday, with a large field of runners expected to turn out. Last year just over 60 runners headed out through Montague for the race but as of Wednesday, race director Ann Fisk said she’s already had more than...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — Points were hard to come by in the championship game of the Franklin Tech Girls Summer Basketball League between Frontier and Franklin Tech on Thursday. That was until about two minutes left in the second overtime, however. The...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — Caleb Thomas pitched like an ace for the Greenfield Post 81 Junior American Legion squad on Tuesday in its District 3 semifinal game against Belchertown Post 239. Thomas allowed one hit in the first inning but Belchertown didn’t get much...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
HOLYOKE — Coming out of the NECBL All-Star break, and with five games to go in the regular season, the Valley Blue Sox have positioned themselves well to make a postseason run. Entering Monday’s action, the Blue Sox (20-16-2) held a one-game lead over...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHAMPTON — It looked like things were headed for a tightly contested game down the stretch between the Greenfield Post 81 and the Northampton Post 28 Senior American Legion teams on Wednesday at Arcanum Field. Mother Nature had other...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s been a long and fruitful relationship between the sport management program at the University of Massachusetts and the Valley Blue Sox.The Blue Sox — which compete in the New England Collegiate Baseball League — have been working with...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
BELCHERTOWN — Hits were hard to come by Monday night between Belchertown Post 239 and Greenfield Post 81. Each team produced a run through three innings before Belchertown took a lead in the fourth following a Cody West sacrifice fly. It was a...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
WESTFIELD — The Turners Falls softball team is back in a familiar position. The Thunder entered Tuesday’s MIAA Div. 5 semifinal against Hopkins looking to keep their season alive as they seek an 11th state championship in program history, but the No....
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier baseball team was able to get runners into scoring position in each of the first three innings on Thursday during the Western Mass. Class C semifinals against Pathfinder, but had nothing to show for it on the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
For the second time in five years, the Greenfield and South Hadley baseball teams will be competing on one of the most storied baseball fields in the country. The Green Wave and the Tigers made the trip to Cooperstown, N.Y. in 2018 and played at...
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