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After putting together a league title-winning season a year ago, the Athol boys basketball team started its 2024-25 campaign in winning fashion on Monday night.The Bears used a 6-0 run midway through the fourth quarter to snatch control, and...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Predicting Hampshire League South contests was no easy task last winter. The league was loaded with depth and talent, evidenced by six of the seven teams making the state playoffs. There, Mahar and Pioneer proceeded to go on runs to the MIAA Div. 5...

Good morning!The Boston University hockey team arrived in their peppermint stick jerseys on Wednesday and worked the Cole mine in front of 4,649 fans at the Mullins Center. Cole Hutson, an 18-year-old defenseman from Chicago, scored two goals and...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

After being the class of the Wright Division for years, the Greenfield hockey team is taking a step up in competition this winter. The Green Wave are making the move up to the Berry Division this season, which featuring the likes of West Springfield,...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

NORTHAMPTON — Mahar’s Stellina Moore couldn’t have had a better start to the PVIAC indoor track season on Thursday at Smith College. Competing in the early meet, the sophomore hit a mark of 5 feet, 2 inches in the girls high jump which placed her...

By RYAN AMES

BOSTON – History was made on Saturday night – in more ways than one.For the first time ever, the UMass hockey team shut out Boston University in a 4-0 win over the 11th-ranked Terriers at Agganis Arena.For the first time this season, the Minutemen...

By AMALIA WOMPA

GREENFIELD — What began as just a few friends playing at the Green River Swimming and Recreation Area has turned into an inter-generational group of ultimate Frisbee players who meet, rain or shine, at the Greenfield Community College fields on a...

Day 3 of Massachusetts Shotgun Deer Hunting Season brought in fewer tags at Franklin County spots on Wednesday.Here’s the list of checks from three area stations (Gould’s Sugarhouse did not report by deadline):Orange Gun Club (10)Michael Grover,...

Every year when whitetail deer season approaches, I’m again reminded of a story that was one of my best hunts ever. It culminated in a better understanding of the purest essence of deer hunting, rather than the emotion of any success or failure we...

The Greenfield High School cooperative hockey team will be holding its annual Fill-A-Skate fundraising drive on Friday, Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.The fundraiser will take place at the intersection of Main and Federal Streets in Greenfield. The...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Touch football in Greenfield has a long, storied history.Greenfield YMCA program director Pete Duffy founded and served as league director for the original Greenfield Recreational Men’s Touch Football League in 1971. The league served as a competitive...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s certainly been one of the more chaotic weeks in UMass football history.Less than a week removed from the firing of former head coach Don Brown, the Minutemen will somehow try and turn the page to play against one of the top programs in the...

By RYAN AMES

The No. 20 UMass hockey team will look to build upon its definitive win against Providence last weekend when it hosts Harvard and Vermont this Friday and Sunday at the Mullins Center.The Minutemen downed the 10th-ranked Friars, 5-1, after failing to...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s athletics program is running out of time to replace its playing surface and track lanes.The rubber-and-sand mixture making up the turf and the track at the James S. Woodward Athletic Complex has another...

By HOWARD HERMAN

AMHERST — The finish wasn't what Frank Martin and the UMass men’s basketball team might have hoped for.The Minutemen dropped a 75-71 overtime thriller to undefeated Hofstra Saturday night at the Mullins Center. But it wasn't the final five minutes,...

By JEFF LAJOIE

TURNERS FALLS – The Franklin Tech football team rode the emotional rollercoaster in its state vocational quarterfinal game against Assabet Valley on Saturday.The top-seeded Eagles trailed into the fourth quarter before a dynamic pick-6 score from Cam...

By JESSE KOLODKIN

PITTSFIELD – To win big, you need players – rookies and veterans – to step up.Tied after full time and two overtime periods, Saturday’s MIAA Division 4 Boys Soccer Round of 16 game at Berkshire Community College went to best-of-five penalty kicks.Both...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After knocking on the door of a state semifinal appearance the last few years, the Frontier field hockey team is heading to the MIAA Division 4 Final Four.The Redhawks reached the state quarterfinals in both 2022 and 2023 but on...

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...

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...