HS Roundup: Smith Vocational’s James Lavallee records 200th-career strikeout in win over Franklin Tech

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

NORTHAMPTON — Smith Vocational ace James Lavallee entered Tuesday's game against Franklin Tech needing 10 strikeouts to reach the 200-strikeout mark for his career. 

Girls lacrosse: Imanni Power-Greene scores 100th career goal in Northampton’s win over Belchertown (PHOTOS)

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Imanni Power-Greene thought she’d never do it. One hundred goals seemed so far away after tearing her ACL her freshman year. But countless hours of rehab and hard work allowed Power-Greene to come back stronger than ever, and the Northampton girls lacrosse junior entered Tuesday afternoon just one goal shy of the century mark.

Hadley’s Beau Elson thriving in first year as Fordham University relief pitcher

By GARRETT COTE

Beau Elson couldn’t feel a thing.

HS Roundup: Justin Moskal throws nine scoreless innings, South Hadley baseball beats Southwick 1-0 in extras

Monday afternoon’s game between the South Hadley and Southwick baseball teams quite literally was the definition of a pitcher’s duel. Tigers ace Justin Moskal and Rams ace Keith Drzyzga were flawless, as each pitcher went the distance and then some.

South Hadley's Lindsay Smith tops local contingent at 129th Boston Marathon

By JOHN STIFLER

BOSTON – Beautiful spring weather on Patriots Day is just fine for Boston Marathon spectators. Many runners, however, prefer lightly overcast days with moist air and temperatures in the low 50s. Somehow, Monday’s mostly sunny weather at the 129th running of this, the oldest annual marathon in the United States, seemed to satisfy both parties.

Baseball: Holyoke holds off Northampton in back-and-forth, extra-inning thriller (PHOTOS)

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — The Holyoke baseball team’s 4-0 lead all of a sudden disappeared. Northampton stormed from behind to tie the game at four and send it to extra innings, and after getting through the top of the eighth inning unscathed, the Blue Devils had a chance to win it.

UMass football: Minutemen cap successful camp with annual Spring Game at McGuirk

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Late in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s UMass football spring game, Team Maroon worked the ball inside the Team White 10-yard line trailing 17-10. Team Maroon quarterback Grant Jordan received a shotgun snap from the 4-yard line, faked the ball to his running back and scrambled right.

HS Roundup: Smith Voc baseball cruises past Smith Academy (PHOTOS)

By RYAN AMES

HATFIELD – The Smith Voc baseball team left no doubt in its 15-1 victory over Smith Academy on Friday.

Hampshire Regional sees 4 student-athletes sign National Letters of Intent

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — Large groups of Hamsphire Regional students and faculty, as well as the families of four student-athletes, piled into the school’s library on Friday afternoon, as Chloe Moynihan, Elijah Picard, CC Thayer and Mary Thibault signed their National Letters of Intent to further their academic and athletic careers at the collegiate level.

UMass football: Minutemen wrap up spring practice, turn focus to Spring Game Saturday

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The 15th and final practice of the spring took place at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Thursday morning, as for the first time in 2025, the UMass football team practiced outside of The Bubble thanks to 50 degree and sunny weather. Head coach Joe Harasymiak met with members of the media following practice and had a mix of emotions when asked about the spring.

HS Lacrosse Roundup: Kiko Bhowmik, Ava Carey combine for 10 points to lift Amherst over Hampshire

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — A 6-0 third-quarter run from the Amherst girls lacrosse team was the difference in its 15-5 home win over Hampshire on Thursday following a 4-3 halftime lead for the Raiders.

HS Roundup: Amherst girls tennis sweeps rival Northampton for fourth straight win

The Amherst Regional girls tennis team has enjoyed a stellar start to the spring, and that continued on Thursday afternoon at the JFK Middle School tennis courts. Behind lights-out singles play, the ‘Canes cruised to a 5-0 win over Northampton to improve to 6-1 with their fourth consecutive victory.

UMass basketball: Transfers Dimitri Clerc and Charles Outlaw to join Minutemen

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — UMass men’s basketball head coach Frank Martin landed a pair of commitments on Wednesday, as forwards Dimitri Clerc and Charles Outlaw – former junior college players – transferred to UMass out of the portal. That now makes four Minutemen transfers coming in (joining K’Jei Parker and Donovan Brown), and all four have either been from JUCO or Division 2.

HS Notebook: Area lacrosse players racking up early-season milestones

By RYAN AMES

It’s been an eventful start to the high school girls lacrosse season, as numerous area athletes have already reached career milestones less than a month into the spring season.

Boys tennis: Reilly Fowles, Northampton hold off PVCICS in battle of top Hampshire County teams (PHOTOS)

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST – It was a battle of two of Hampshire County’s best boys tennis players on Wednesday at Hampshire College.

HS Roundup: Allie Randall, Emma Kornbluth team for doubles sweep in Belchertown’s win over Holyoke

Allie Randall and Emma Kornbluth cruised to a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 2 doubles to power the Belchertown girls tennis team to a 4-1 victory over Holyoke on Wednesday.

Ultimate preview: Defending state champion Northampton looking for more

By GARRETT COTE

It doesn’t get much better than the season the Northampton girls ultimate team had in 2024. A year ago, the Blue Devils won the Division 1 state tournament, earned the right to travel to Rockford, Ill. last June and turned in an impressive fifth-place finish at the national tournament. They also captured first place at the Amherst Invitational – the longest annual ultimate tournament in the United States – for the first time in program history.

H.S. Notebook: Softball pitchers are wild across Western Massachusetts this spring

By GARRETT COTE

It’s once again that time of the season. Some teams are about a quarter of the way through their spring sports schedules, the cold weather seems to be in the rearview and high school notebooks are back! We began doing a weekly basketball notebook in the winter, as well as an all-winter sports notebook, and both were well received. So, here we are again with a spring edition.

Girls lacrosse: Teagan McDonald tallies 100th career goal in Northampton’s win over South Hadley (PHOTOS)

By RYAN AMES

NORTHAMPTON – Teagan McDonald tabbed her 100th career goal in the Northampton girls lacrosse team’s 14-5 win over South Hadley on Tuesday at Northampton.