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By HANNAH BEVIS
With the clock ticking down in the fourth quarter and the score between Smith Vocational and Ludlow tied at 30 apiece, the tension couldn’t have been higher between the two football teams.Something had to give. Smith Voc’s Jared Baer took the game...
Five different players found the back of the net for the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School boys soccer team on Friday afternoon in a 5-0 shutout win over Franklin Tech.Teddy Scott, Julian Lee-Choi, James Scott, Nolan Gage and Patrick...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Friday dawned bright and hot without a cloud in the sky, and UMass football coach Don Brown was ecstatic to see the weather forecast. With the first game of the season at New Mexico State, Brown wants his team used to playing in high temps. “It was a...
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
Somehow, Sam Breen will play basketball next season somewhere other than UMass.The two-time reigning Atlantic 10 Player of the Year signed a professional deal with Finland’s Vimpelin Veto Koripallo, the team announced on Instagram on Monday. Breen, a...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Former UMass running back Ellis Merriweather carved a place in the NFL.He signed an undrafted free agent deal with the New Orleans Saints on Monday after attending the team’s rookie mini camp. It was his second camp invitation along with the Green Bay...
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...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Ellis Merriweather never took the easy path to the NFL.The former UMass running back began his college career at Garden City Community College after a standout career at Alpharetta High School in Alpharetta, Ga. Garden City reached the NJCAA National...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST — The brightest spot of the past UMass football season wants to crank up the lumens even more.One of the best pass defenses and stingiest third down defenses is only getting better.“We’re a lot better than we were last year at this point, I...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Steve Casula examined every aspect of the UMass football team’s offense in the offseason.The Minutemen finished last in the country scoring just 12.5 points per game and were third from the bottom gaining just 265.8 yards per contest. They...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Jerry Roberts Jr.’s family and football family converged at UMass, so he met both there.His younger brother Jyree Roberts signed with the Minutemen during the early signing period, pledging to play for the coach that gave the elder Roberts a...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Gino Campiotti raced toward the front pylon. This year he met the football there from inside the end zone and hauled in a catch for a (spring practice) touchdown as a tight end rather than diving to score from outside like last season when...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Emphasizing the “UMass” part of UMass football has been key to the Minutemen’s recruiting efforts under Don Brown over the past year.When he went out on the road after taking the job a year and a half ago, Brown would ask where UMass rated...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Tuesday’s spring practice gave UMass football coach Don Brown an extra spring in his step.“I like the way our guys are working. I like the way they're interacting with one another,” Brown said. “People call it culture and attitude, whatever...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Don Brown doesn’t mind his defense winning some spring practice days and losing others compared to the offense. The pendulum indicates the strength of a program.“For good teams, the pendulum swings back. It just does,” Brown said. “If you're...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Alex Miller spends most of his time in the corner of the UMass football practice facility.While the quarterbacks, receivers and backs throw routes and practice handoffs on the playing surface, the offensive line drills to the fundamentals....
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST — Familiarity brought focus in the UMass football team’s first spring practice of 2023.The Minutemen opened the session in the indoor practice bubble Wednesday. They’ll practice 13 more times ahead of the April 29 spring game.“You know what’s...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Maximus Lockett looked like a basketball player. He stood 6-foot-7, 185 pounds as a freshman and played varsity basketball at Northampton. Basketball occupied most of his life, as Lockett traveled the country on the AAU circuit and logged highlight...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Youth didn’t serve the UMass football team last season, so head coach Don Brown sprinkled in some experience.The Minutemen announced 13 transfers joined the program Wednesday as part of national signing day. Three are graduate transfers with one year...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST — Justin Moore laughed to himself standing in the paint.He and the rest of his DeMatha Catholic teammates hadn’t had to play much defense yet during the 2018 WCAC basketball semifinal because Josh Wallace hounded the opposing point guard 94...
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