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By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – The five coaches that will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday represent nearly every wrung of the profession. They’ve combined to win 4,856 games among them.Amherst College’s Dave Hixon spent...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The Frontier Regional boys volleyball program wouldn’t exist without Jesse Kurkulonis.Inspired by the success of his friends on the Redhawks girls team, which has won 11 state championships including last fall, he began inquiring with newly minted...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

DEVENS – Madison Liimatainen has hit more than her fair share of home runs for Turners Falls and various travel and club softball teams. Never one like the one that cleared the Willard Field fence Wednesday, though.In the first of two Bay State Games...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

FITCHBURG — An early deficit didn’t hamper the West field hockey team in the Bay State Games bronze medal match Sunday at Game On. The West took down Metro, 3-2.Metro struck first, but Sarah Kreibel (Agawam) and Grace Rajpold (East Longmeadow)...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

BOSTON – Boom. Boom. Boom.Those weren’t belated fireworks at Monan Field at BC High. The West team scored all of its runs with three home run blasts to defeat the Central squad 6-5 on Thursday to close out Day 2 of Bay State Games baseball...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

OXFORD – The Frontier baseball team won’t pinch hit for Brady Poreda again.The freshman No. 9 hole hitter plunged the dagger into No. 3 Oxford to send the No. 14 Redhawks to the MIAA Division 5 quarterfinals on the road Wednesday.After Frontier coach...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

FITCHBURG — Mohawk Trail’s Emmett Johnson got caught in a traffic jam. The 23-person 800-meter run field at the MIAA Meet of Champions on Thursday at Fitchburg State was larger than he’d ever experienced.“I got boxed in horribly,” Johnson said.The...

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SOUTH DEERFIELD – Scoring points or winning sets brought no comfort to the top-seeded Frontier Regional boys volleyball team against Ware in Wednesday’s Western Massachusetts Class C semifinal.The Redhawks coaching staff regularly reminded them to not...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HADLEY – Vengeful thunder rang out from Liam Skribiski-Banack’s bat every time he made contact.The Frontier Regional baseball captain woke up with a “fire lit in [his] belly” Thursday morning ahead of the Redhawks’ second meeting with Hopkins Academy....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The line wrapped around Smith College’s Indoor Track & Tennis complex an hour before tipoff. Smith athletic director Kristen Hughes’ phone lit up with a text, “It’s like a Rihanna concert out here.”Ainsworth Gymnasium holds roughly 500 people, and the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Hockey drew Lisa Ito-Bagshaw to the Pioneer Valley initially. It keeps bringing her back, too.The nomad who grew up across Canada and in California came to Deerfield Academy with her sister Sara to play hockey. Her parents moved to Hadley to stay...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Receiving the NCAA tournament’s No. 1 overall seed shocked the Smith College basketball team, but it won’t overwhelm the Pioneers.Smith has reached two straight NCAA Division 3 Sweet 16s and won three consecutive NEWMAC titles.“I don’t think it adds...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

BOSTON – Caroline Crocker took a step up the MIAA Division 5 Indoor Track & Field Championship podium by honing in on the details.The Frontier Regional senior finished second in the girls 55-meter hurdles Thursday at the Reggie Lewis Center, crossing...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The joke online used to be “Fordham’s too high” whenever the Atlantic 10 preseason polls came out when the Rams were inevitably picked at the bottom of the league. Now Fordham, UMass’ next opponent, is too high for the rest of the league’s liking. The...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

NORTHAMPTON – Franklin Tech used superior numbers to overwhelm the Northampton wrestling team Thursday.The Eagles benefited from three forfeits in a 45-24 victory over the Blue Devils. Four Eagles also pinned their opponents.Carsten Couture started...

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AMHERST –  Everything but the final scoreboard indicates the UMass hockey team is on the right path. The Minutemen out shot UConn comfortably and scored more goals than they had in weeks. Their offensive pressure was consistent and bench lively.But...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Rahsool Diggins’ confidence debuted in a UMass uniform. It looks good on him.The sophomore UConn transfer poured in all seven of his career-high point total during a 12-point second half run that separated the UMass men’s basketball team...

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AMHERST – Dyondre Dominguez closes his eyes at the free throw line and time travels. He leaves the Mullins Center and thinks about his family and everything that brought him to that point.“It sends me down back to where I was, and I think about how...

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AMHERST – Tyson Dyck pointed across the ice at Cal Kiefiuk. The UMass hockey freshman was credited with the opening goal on the score sheet in Tuesday’s 3-0 win over Brown at the Mullins Center, but he recognized the puck wouldn’t have left his stick...