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By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — The Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion team improved to 2-0 on the season, with its latest victory coming in walk-off fashion in extra innings on Wednesday evening at Belchertown High School.

Maceo Nteta and Dylan Lawrence-Riddell led the way for a potent Northampton offense on Monday evening at Legion Field in a 14U baseball matchup with Palmer, as the duo combined for six hits and seven RBI. That strong one-two punch helped Northampton defeat Palmer 20-4 in decisive fashion.

By GARRETT COTE

It was about as ideal a start as the Belchertown Post 239 senior legion baseball team could have asked for on Monday evening on the road against West Springfield Post 207, as Belchertown earned a 4-1 win to start the 2025 season fresh off its second consecutive District 3 title.

By GARRETT COTE

For the last two years, the Belchertown Post 239 Senior American Legion team has been the cream of the crop in Western Massachusetts. Post 239 breezed through their regular season schedule without a loss in 2024 before earning a 6-5 win in the District 3 championship over Aldenville Post 337 for their second consecutive title.

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — Jacob Sicard made quick work of No. 39 Roxbury Prep in the top of the first inning, and after Zach Phakos smashed a two-run home run in the bottom half of the frame, the party was on in Westhampton.

By RYAN AMES

EASTHAMPTON — It wasn’t looking good for the No. 28 Easthampton baseball team during the latter stages of Thursday’s MIAA Division 5 state tournament preliminary round game against No. 37 Wareham.

By GARRETT COTE

HOLYOKE — They say the third time is the charm, and it most certainly was for the top-seeded Pioneer baseball team on Wednesday afternoon at MacKenzie Stadium.

By GARRETT COTE

Just a week ago, the South Hadley and Frontier softball teams met in their regular-season finales, knowing that there was a strong possibility of meeting in the Western Massachusetts Class B semifinals a handful of days later. And after the No. 3 Tigers and No. 2 Redhawks earned decisive wins in their respective quarterfinal bouts, sure enough, they were back on the diamond on Sunday – battling it out for a spot in the Class B championship.

By RYAN AMES and GARRETT COTE

HADLEY — Trailing 6-0 entering the sixth inning, the Granby softball team gave its best shot at a comeback by rattling off a pair of runs and putting base runners on, but Hopkins Academy’s ace Cassandra Dion shut the door. The Golden Hawks added one more insurance run in the bottom half of the frame and went on to win 7-2 in the Western Massachusetts Class D quarterfinals on Wednesday afternoon.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORCESTER — According to Oxford Dictionary, baseball refers to both the game and the ball used in it. It’s a popular sport played by two teams of nine players, who take turns batting and fielding. The game involves hitting a ball with a bat and running around four bases before the other team can return the ball.

By RYAN AMES

NORTHAMPTON – You won’t find many high school teams in Massachusetts with more momentum at this point in the season than the Belchertown baseball team. The Orioles wrapped up their regular season with a 13-1 victory over Northampton on Wednesday, claiming their 11th consecutive win in decisive fashion.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — It wouldn’t be unreasonable to believe that some coaches in the midst of a difficult losing season begin counting the days until it’s over around this time of year. And players on that team may feel the exact same way.

By GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — Hampshire Regional head baseball coach Mark Baldwin said matching up with Easthampton is “kind of like playing ourselves,” and added that his Raiders squad and the Eagles are very similarly constructed. The two teams played three weeks ago and Hampshire came from behind to win 5-3, and on Wednesday, it was yet another rock fight between the two Hampshire County programs.

The Northampton Post 28 Senior Legion baseball team (19U) will be holding tryouts on Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to noon, and again on Saturday, May 10 also from 10 a.m. to noon at Arcanum Field in Florence.

By GARRETT COTE

May is officially upon us, and with that, so is tournament season. The Western Massachusetts baseball and softball tournaments will begin later this month. Some teams are over halfway through their regular season schedules, and others have a loaded back-half slate to make up for a handful of rain outs earlier this spring.

By RYAN AMES

GRANBY — It was the Conner Bergeron show on Monday afternoon as the eighth-grader led the Greenfield baseball team past Granby, 10-0, at the Granby Baseball Diamond in a five-inning affair.

By GARRETT COTE

The Albany Twilight League has been around for almost 100 years, and fields some of the best former professional and college baseball players from across the country. Hampshire Regional head softball coach Brian McGan played in the Twilight League back in the 1980s for nearly a decade once his professional playing days came to a close.

By RYAN AMES

The Smith Voc baseball team is enjoying one of its best starts under head coach Luis Bonilla this season. The Vikings have not lost as the month of May closes in, and their pitching has been stellar through the first month of the schedule.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

NORTHAMPTON — Smith Vocational ace James Lavallee entered Tuesday's game against Franklin Tech needing 10 strikeouts to reach the 200-strikeout mark for his career. 

By GARRETT COTE

Beau Elson couldn’t feel a thing.

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — The Holyoke baseball team’s 4-0 lead all of a sudden disappeared. Northampton stormed from behind to tie the game at four and send it to extra innings, and after getting through the top of the eighth inning unscathed, the Blue Devils had a chance to win it.