The Nonotuck Knights Pee Wee youth hockey team made association history on March 5.
The Knights won their first state championship when they took home the Tier III Small Division 12-and-under title at Olympia Ice Center in West Springfield.
Nonotuck beat Billerica, 2-1, in the finals. The Knicks beat Medfield, 3-2, in double overtime to reach the championship.
The Knights went 3-0 in pool play, beating Billerica (4-3), Shrewsbury (5-4) and Triton (9-1) by a combined score of 18-8.
Playing for the Knights were: Jack Belcher-Timme, Nathan Callan, Evan Carmody, Tyler Darling, Ryan DeFalco, Owen Duda, Paige Galpin, Ben Gottlieb, Gabe Growhoski, Rowan Howe, Nolan Jasiorkowski, Liam Reynolds, Michael Rodriguez and Russell Welch.
The team was coached by Jesse Belcher-Timme, Lee Callan and Matt Jasorkowski.
Nonotuck’s 14U Bantam team beat South Boston (7-0), Dedham (6-2) and Greater Lowell (6-1) in pool play of its state tournament at Olympia. They lost 6-4 to South Boston in the finals.
The Amherst Archery Academy sent nine archers to a regional tournament in Fiskdale where they competed for national rankings.
Regional tournaments were held from Feb. 17 to Sunday. The tournament in Fisdale was held Feb. 24-26.
Lyle Denit, of Amherst, competed in the Masters Barebow division. Carrie Bergman, of Amherst, competed in the Seniors Olympics Recurve division. Carji Colvin, of Holyoke, competed in the Seniors Barebow division.
Daniel Roney, of Belchertown, competed in the JOAD Nationals (youth) and as a Cadet in Nationals in the Compound division. Samuel Kleinman-Eddy, of Amherst, competed in JOAD Nationals and in Nationals as a Cadet in the Olympic Recurve division.
Samuel Conrad-Rooney, of Amherst, competed in JOAD Nationals in the Olympic Recurve division as well as a Cub in Nationals. Conrad-Rooney’s average score of 9.12 earned him a yellow pin.
Gene Kang, a frequent private lesson archer at Amherst Archery Academy, competed in Olympic Recurve in JOAD Nationals and in Nationals as a Cadet. Amherst Archery coaches Kyle Forbes Bissell, of Greenfield, and Christos Karmiris, of Greece, also competed. Bissell was in Seniors Compound and Karmiris in Masters Olympic Recurve.
The local scholastic soccer officials association will conduct an instructional course for new referees in April and May.
Members of the Connecticut Valley Soccer Officials Association referee scholastic games of all levels in Hampshire and Franklin counties and in Athol during autumn months. Members must be 18 years of age or older and pass a national background check.
The instructional course includes five classes on weekday evenings, a rules test and field training. The cost of the course is $50. For more information, contact Artie Burke at 863-2452 or AEBurke11@verizon.net.
Registrations for the Lil’ Sluggers Tee Ball program are now being accepted at the Northampton Parks and Recreation Department. The coed program for children between the ages of 4 and 6. Participants will start the season hitting from a tee and have the chance to progress to pitches thrown by the coach at their own pace. The seven-week program’s main focus is to create a fun and instructional environment for kids.
Deadline for registration is April 7, or until filled.
For more information, contact the Parks & Recreation Department at 587-1040, at 100A Bridge Road, or visit northamptonma.gov/recreation.
Carole Grills, longtime former Smith College sports information director, will be inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame on June 12.
Grills was Smith’s first SID and served from 1981 until her retirement in 2010.
Grills is a part of the 2017 class that will be honored at organizations 60th annual national convention, held at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida.
Mitch Seavey, 57, wins Iditarod
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Mitch Seavey won his third Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, becoming the fastest and oldest champion at age 57 and helping cement his family’s position as mushing royalty.
The Seward, Alaska, musher brought his dogs off the frozen Bering Sea and onto Front Street in the Gold Rush town of Nome after crossing nearly 1,000 miles of Alaska wilderness.
He outran his son, defending champion Dallas Seavey, and lapped the oldest musher record that he set at age 53 in 2013. He previously won the race in 2013 and 2004.
Seavey set a new time record for the race, which the Iditarod said was 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds.