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UMass hockey: Minutemen head to Vermont for weekend pair at Gutterson Fieldhouse

11-07-2024 2:18 PM

By RYAN AMES

The No. 18 UMass hockey team will head to Vermont for a two-game set against the Catamounts this weekend, where it’ll look to improve upon its 4-3-1 record.UMass secured a 4-3 win over American International College on the road last weekend,...


High School Football: Franklin County, Hampshire County schools fail to qualify for state tournament

11-07-2024 2:13 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

For the first time since the statewide tournament format went into place in 2021, neither Franklin County or Hampshire County had a football team qualify for the state playoffs. Entering the final week of the regular season last week, Franklin Tech...


HS Roundup: Frontier volleyball advances to Div. 4 quarterfinals following 3-1 victory over Rockland

11-06-2024 8:55 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier girls volleyball team had to reset after the opening set of its MIAA Div. 4 Round of 16 contest against Rockland on Wednesday. The sixth-seeded Redhawks led 21-13 in the opening set but the 11th-seeded Bulldogs didn’t go...


Field hockey: Frontier shuts out West Bridgewater, 5-0, to advance to D4 quarterfinals (PHOTOS)

11-06-2024 4:41 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Good luck scoring goals on the Frontier field hockey team this postseason. The Redhawk defense has been lights out all season long, allowing more than one goal just twice during the regular season. That defensive effort has continued...


On The Ridge with Joe Judd: Bobcats a very real part of our New England landscape

11-06-2024 4:34 PM

The “magic hour” had arrived when it was neither day nor night! And I’d been watching a shadowy figure moving in and out of the hardwoods below me for almost half an hour. This gray afternoon, with darkness slowly and gently overtaking me, was soon to...


HS Roundup: Will Reading’s overtime goal lifts Frontier boys soccer past Nantucket, 2-1, and into Round of 16 (PHOTOS)

11-05-2024 7:41 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Nantucket boys soccer team had all the momentum going into overtime against Frontier in the MIAA Division 4 Round of 32 Tuesday. After the 14th-seeded Redhawks took the lead five minutes into the game, Frontier had to withstand...


UMass basketball: Minutewomen drop opener at Harvard, 71-58

11-04-2024 10:36 PM

By RYAN AMES

The UMass women's basketball team fell in its season opener to Harvard, 71-58, on Monday at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge.The Minutewomen led, 15-12, after the first quarter, however the Crimson outscored UMass, 20-6, in the second frame in what...


UMass basketball: Rahsool Diggins pours in career-high 26 points, newcomers also shine as Minutemen rout UNH in season opener 103-74

11-04-2024 10:24 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — It can be a difficult task for college basketball fans to learn the players on the teams they root for year in and year out. Every season, programs across the country are gutted and rebuilt.UMass men’s hoops fans got quite the introduction...


MIAA tourneys: Kylee Gamache stands tall in Franklin Tech’s Div. 5 prelim loss to Smith Voc (PHOTOS)

11-04-2024 8:18 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

NORTHAMPTON — Franklin Tech goalie Kylee Gamache did all she could to keep the Eagles’ season alive on Monday in the MIAA Division 5 Girls Soccer preliminary round. The 37th-seeded Eagles went on the road to face 28th-seeded Smith Vocational, a...


Bulletin Board: Two Franklin County Bulldog, two Frontier youth football teams Super Bowl-bound

11-04-2024 6:33 PM

The Franklin County Junior Bulldogs are heading to the Super Bowl. Facing Frontier on Sunday in the semifinals, Benjamin Woodard hit Avery Lococo for a touchdown to tie the game in the third quarter before Wesley Darling blocked a punt and Jackson...


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: Light Meat or Dark Meat?

11-04-2024 6:09 PM

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I’m ready to carve the turkey. White meat or dark meat? I go for the white but I always remember my grandfather; he said the neck was the best part. I have yet to eat a neck, but one does wonder why turkeys have two...


MIAA tourneys: Turners Falls girls volleyball rallies out of 2-0 hole to knock off Mohawk Trail in Div. 5 Round of 32

11-03-2024 7:05 PM

While the Mohawk Trail girls volleyball team beat Turners Falls twice in the regular season, and in the Western Mass. Class D semifinals, all three matches were competitive throughout. It was only fitting the two Northern League foes got a chance to...


UMass basketball: New-look Minutemen eye opener with UNH to kick off final Atlantic 10 season

11-03-2024 4:40 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — They always say to save the best for last, right?Frank Martin’s crew is certainly hoping so, as the third-year UMass men’s basketball head coach leads the Minutemen into what will be their final season in the Atlantic 10 – a conference in...


UMass basketball: Minutewomen turn to new, familiar faces in hopes of taking big step forward

11-03-2024 4:27 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There’s no way to sugarcoat it, last year was a disappointment for head coach Mike Leflar in his first season leading the UMass women’s basketball team. The expectations weren’t necessarily through the roof after Tory Verdi left Amherst for...


PHOTOS: Youth soccer players compete in annual Bernardston jamboree

11-02-2024 8:26 PM


UMass football: Minutemen lead 10-0 after one quarter before Mississippi State charges back for 45-20 win

11-02-2024 8:24 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Through one quarter in Starkville, things were looking good for the UMass football team. The Minutemen came out and played one of their better quarters of the season to open Saturday’s road game against SEC foe Mississippi State, holding a 10-0 lead...


UMass hockey: Big first period propels Minutemen past AIC, 4-3

11-02-2024 6:20 PM

The UMass hockey team was ready to go from the opening faceoff against AIC on Saturday. The Minutemen scored three goals in the first period before holding off a late Yellow Jackets rally to walk away with a 4-3 non-conference victory at the...


Girls soccer: Greenfield offense gets going to knock off Athol, 5-0, in Div. 5 prelims (PHOTOS)

11-02-2024 6:19 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield girls soccer team entered Saturday’s MIAA Div. 5 preliminary round contest against Athol seeking revenge after the Bears snatched the Bi-County title away from the Wave earlier this fall. Greenfield and Athol entered their...


Football: Erik Martineau’s last-minute TD helps Greenfield stun Athol; Bears’ state playoff hopes in jeopardy

11-01-2024 11:13 PM

By GEORGE MILLER

GREENFIELD — Athol may have had everything to play for -- a Division 8 state football playoff berth and a share of the Intercounty League North title -- but Greenfield applied a steady dose of pressure over the full 32 minutes Friday night, and the...


Football: Franklin Tech clinches share of IL North title, Frontier falls to Lee

11-01-2024 9:40 PM

The Franklin Tech football team clinched at least a share of the Intercounty League North title on Friday. Hosting Mahar, the Eagles took a 28-8 lead at the half and didn’t look back, rolling to a 48-14 victory in Turners Falls. Franklin Tech (7-1,...


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