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By GARRETT COTE

HOLYOKE — It may not have been playing its most disciplined football, but the Holyoke football team capitalized on a gift from Pittsfield in the second quarter of its season opener at the Roberts Complex on Thursday night.Trailing 18-6 in the second...

TURNERS FALLS – Following a 5-10-1 campaign in 2023, the Amherst field hockey team looks like a renewed group this fall. The Hurricanes opened the season with County League wins over Palmer, Hampshire and Holyoke to start 3-0, gaining confidence in...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Hampshire County football teams start their first full week of games on Friday, with five teams in action.The Daily Hampshire Gazette calculated the strength of schedule for each Hampshire County football team this fall. Strength of schedule numbers...

By GARRETT COTE and CONNOR PIGNATELLO

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY — After four weeks of practice, the start of the high school football season in Hampshire County begins for most teams on Friday, with four crossover games for local teams. Frontier began its season on Sept. 6 with a loss...

Haly Doucette-Kaplan netted the game-winning goal with 3 minutes, 18 seconds remaining, and the Northampton field hockey team moved above the .500 mark on the season thanks to a 2-1 Valley League victory over Mohawk Trail on Wednesday in...

Michael Murray and Daniel Hulmes both fired rounds of 2-over 37, helping the Belchertown golf team edge Frontier, 154-158, in action played Tuesday at Cherry Hill Golf Course in Amherst.Jared Haynes shot 38 and Ryan Shea followed with a 42 for the...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

For the first time in 21 years, Sean MacDonald’s hulking figure won’t be patrolling the sidelines at Frontier girls volleyball matches. MacDonald retired from the girls program last year after 429 wins, 18 western Mass. titles and 11 state...

Caitlin Graves probably ran out of goal celebrations midway through the second half of the Smith Academy girls soccer team’s 8-1 beat down of Mount Everett in Hatfield on Monday afternoon.The Falcons senior netted a whopping seven goals in the win,...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

At last fall’s Western Mass. Division I championships, Amherst girls cross country barely edged Northampton by three points to win the sectional title. Three weeks later at the MIAA Division 2 championships, the Northampton girls blazed past Amherst...

By GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — The South Hadley boys soccer team wasted no time jumping on Easthampton during Friday afternoon’s game at Nonotuck Park, and the Tigers sustained their high level of play throughout.Following a down year in 2023 after winning the state...

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — During Brad Miller’s 16 seasons as head coach of the Longmeadow boys soccer team, he won three Western Mass. championships and led the Lancers to an undefeated season and Division I state title in 2019.So considering Hampshire Regional...

The Northampton boys golf team edged Belchertown by one stroke, 175-176, in a Suburban East showdown between top Hampshire County squads on Thursday at Cold Spring Country Club in Belchertown.Belchertown’s Michael Murray put up the low score with a 40...

By GARRETT COTE

HATFIELD — It wouldn’t be a Granby/Smith Academy boys soccer game without a close, physical and grind-it-out style of play.The two teams have tied their last five regular season meetings dating back to 2021, and a game hasn’t been decided by more than...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Playing field hockey for Dina Brunetti may seem like a lot of work, but the second year Belchertown head coach has a method to the self-proclaimed madness she puts her players through.It isn’t just about the sport itself. Brunetti wants...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier and Greenfield field hockey teams played four times last fall. Both teams won two games, though the Redhawks took the big one in the Western Mass. championship tilt. There wasn’t much separation in any of those four...

Heidymar Diaz Lopez had seven aces, two blocks and eight kills for the Smith Vocational girls volleyball team in a dominant sweep over Duggan Academy on Wednesday.Set scores were 25-18, 25-11, 25-17. Katelyn Fedora (three aces, one block, one assist,...

The Northampton girls soccer team came out of the gate hot in their opening match of the season, putting eight goals past Granby Tuesday evening to snag an 8-1 Central Division victory at David Wright Stadium in Northampton.The Blue Devils (1-0) led...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Chris Gould has been either running or coaching at Amherst Regional High School since the 1970s, and for the entire time the ‘Canes boys cross country head coach has been involved with the program, the course has never changed.But this year...

By GARRETT COTE

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY — Come the Western Mass. Division 1 Golf Championships at Westover Golf Course last fall, the Belchertown golf team felt it was more than ready to show out on the big stage and punch one of two team tickets to states.The Orioles fell...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The 2024 golf season began with the classic Battle of the Bridge on Thursday afternoon at Amherst Golf Club. Following a flawless 16-0 regular season in 2023, Northampton High School picked up right where it left off – behind the smooth...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

BELCHERTOWN — New Belchertown High School Athletic Director Kevin McNeill might never have held an AD position, but he brings with him years of coaching experience in not just Belchertown, but Hampshire County as a whole.McNeill replaces Jen Gouvin,...