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By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – No pass is safe around UMass senior defender Audra Tosone.The Walpole native ranks seventh in Division I women’s lacrosse and leads the Atlantic 10 forcing 2.5 turnovers per game. She’s won four Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Week...
By HANNAH BEVIS
AMHERST – There wasn’t an empty seat inside a packed Massachusetts room at the Mullins Center on Wednesday afternoon. It seemed as though the entire UMass athletics department had turned out for new women’s basketball coach Mike Leflar’s introductory...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Just a few days after Tory Verdi announced his departure for the coaching job at the University of Pittsburgh, UMass announced his replacement. The school didn’t have to look far for Verdi’s successor – he’s been at his side for the last five years....
By HANNAH BEVIS
It didn’t take the Pitt women’s basketball program long to introduce their new head coach Tory Verdi. After the seven-year UMass women’s basketball coach had been rumored to be in talks with Pitt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Noah Hiles reported...
By HANNAH BEVIS
AMHERST – As the clock ticked down the final seconds, the Amherst College women’s hockey team started to realize what exactly it had accomplished. Playing in front of a packed house on their home ice in the NCAA Division 3 semifinals, the Mammoths...
By HANNAH BEVIS
The Amherst College women’s hockey team is one game away from the NCAA Division 3 championship game, and if they want to get there, the Mammoths (25-3-0) will have to go through a familiar NESCAC foe. Amherst’s semifinal opponent is Hamilton (22-5-2),...
By HANNAH BEVIS
The UMass women's basketball team is coming back from an A10 tournament that was both successful and disappointing; the Minutewomen did reach their third consecutive title game, but couldn’t defend their title against No. 3 St. Louis in a 91-85...
By HANNAH BEVIS
The UMass women’s basketball team fell just short of its goal of qualifying for the NCAA tournament, but the program will still play postseason basketball. The Minutewomen earned an automatic bid to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT),...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Of all the schools the Amherst College women’s hockey team could have drawn for its NCAA Division 3 Tournament quarterfinal game, the Mammoths sure got an interesting opponent.No. 1 Amherst will host No. 10 Colby, which upset No. 9 in Norwich in the...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Amherst netminder Natalie Stott is one of the most intimidating players on the ice. Her team is already one of the stingiest in the country, allowing just 26 goals this season – third-fewest in NCAA Division 3. Stott leads all goaltenders in Div. 3...
By HANNAH BEVIS
It’s a story Tory Verdi loves to tell. When he first took the head coaching job at UMass back in 2016, people told him he was ‘crazy’ for coming to a program with nothing. It had no history, no culture of winning. Why would he go there? What possessed...
By HANNAH BEVIS
It seemed like the UMass women’s basketball team had managed to move past shaky starts that had plagued them off and on over the years.The top-seeded Minutewomen have struggled with a couple of things over the years – namely slow starts and playing...
By HANNAH BEVIS
WILMINGTON, Del. – For 33 minutes, George Mason had the UMass women’s basketball team exactly where it wanted. The Patriots’ physicality, their defensive prowess, their ability to position themselves perfectly in the post to grab rebounds – Mason was...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Everyone has a role to play on the UMass women’s basketball team.Ber’Nyah Mayo, the cool and calm junior who never loses her head, is the team’s analytical mind. Two-time Atlantic 10 Player of the Year Sam “Queen” Breen is the soul of the...
By HANNAH BEVIS
You know it’s been a good season of basketball when everything comes down to the final game of the regular season. The No. 1 seed at the Atlantic 10 tournament is still up for grabs, something UMass women’s basketball fans should be grateful. The...
By HANNAH BEVIS
AMHERST – Fans might have worried that the UMass women’s basketball team would have a celebration hangover after Thursday’s 78-57 blowout victory over Rhode Island. There was nothing to worry about on Sunday afternoon however. The Minutewomen put...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Thursday’s UMass game at Rhode Island was a must-win game, in more ways than one. The Minutewomen were still looking for the No. 1 spot in the Atlantic 10 tournament, and a win against Rhode Island would bring them one stop closer. But more than that,...
By HANNAH BEVIS
The Atlantic-10 Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament is still two weeks away, but Thursday night’s game between UMass and Rhode Island at the Thomas M. Ryan Center (6 p.m. ESPN-Plus) in Kingston, R.I. could very well be an A-10 title game...
By HANNAH BEVIS
A couple days prior to the UMass women’s lacrosse team’s first game of the season, first-year head coach Jana Drummond sat in her office preparing for her team’s first game of the season against UMass Lowell. It was a familiar setting for Drummond,...
By HANNAH BEVIS
AMHERST – With the Mullins Center filled to bursting with screaming schoolchildren on Field Trip Day, the UMass women’s basketball team had a mixed bag of a game against VCU on Thursday afternoon. The basketball itself was good, with the Minutewomen...
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