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A year ago Andrew Ford was just competing for a chance to play. Now he’s competing for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm award, which announced its preseason watch list Wednesday.The gilded honor goes to the nation’s top senior quarterback for...

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AMHERST — A year ago, Andrew Ford was still learning his way around UMass, Mark Whipple’s offense and a few of his teammates’ names.The quarterback from Pennsylvania arrived in May 2016 after transferring from Lackawanna Community College, where he...

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The only team in the region who Northampton Post 28 hasn’t beaten this season is the only one standing between it and a Western Massachusetts Championship.Northampton will face East Springfield in a best of three series beginning Tuesday at 5:30 p.m....

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EASTHAMPTON — Two batters into the game, Easthampton Post 224 was already playing catch-up. It couldn’t quite finish the job in its Western Massachusetts American Legion postseason game against Wilbraham Red.After falling behind by seven, Easthampton...

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Adam Breneman could see himself in the kids he was speaking to. A younger, more naive version of himself.Just over a week ago, UMass’ rising senior tight end spent four days working as a counselor at The Opening, in Beaverton, Oregon, at Nike’s...

By MATT VAUTOURThe next time the UMass men’s basketball team takes the floor together, there will be as many new faces as familiar ones.After former coach Derek Kellogg was fired and new coach Matt McCall replaced him in March, the program has been...

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Chris Baldwin was probably in line for more playing time in 2017-18 anyway.He finished his freshman year strong and likely would have played a larger role as a sophomore even if UMass hadn’t changed coaching staffs. But after former coach Derek...

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Mario Ferraro didn’t have to wait long Saturday morning to hear his name called at the NHL Draft.The incoming UMass freshman defenseman was selected 49th overall by the San Jose Sharks, just over midway through the second round.He was picked well...

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Cale Makar’s season-long rise from relatively unknown recruit to elite prospect peaked Friday in Chicago. The Colorado Avalanche selected the UMass commit with the No. 4 pick in the NHL Draft.No UMass player had ever been taken in the first round...

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The biggest advertisement for Greg Carvel’s hockey program will be running for free this weekend.UMass hockey will likely be mentioned prominently when Cale Makar, an almost certain top-10 pick, is selected in the NHL Draft, which runs Friday and...

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UMass extended the contracts of one of its longest and one of its shortest tenured head coaches Thursday.The athletic department announced that men’s lacrosse coach Greg Cannella, who has been at UMass for 23 years, and women’s basketball coach Tory...

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In almost every other year of the UMass hockey program’s existence, defenseman Mario Ferraro would have been the big name incoming freshman, the headline recruit that everybody eagerly awaited seeing.Instead, a hefty portion of fan attention has gone...

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As the balls thwacked against the outfield seats at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park and echoed through the empty ballpark Friday, Erik Ostberg just tried to appear outwardly indifferent.He’d never even been on the playing surface, let alone taken...

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The idea of becoming the head coach at UMass where he’d been a player and an assistant coach would have appealed to Matt Reynolds anytime the job opened. But Reynolds said longtime coach Mike Stone’s retirement came at the perfect point in his...

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After seven scoreless innings, the Amherst College softball team’s offense broke out in the top of the eighth before its defense held on in the bottom of the inning.The Mammoths advanced to the winners’ bracket of the Division III National...

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There was a time that needing a break from softball would have been unfathomable for Emma Mendoker.But the former Amherst Regional star and current Williams College pitching coach needed to step away last year. She gave up her remaining eligibility at...

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The Amherst College softball team hasn’t looked like a team filled with players who’d never been to the NCAA Tournament before. Amherst hasn’t been to the tournament since 2012, but the Mammoths have played like veterans and have a chance to turn...

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AMHERST — There is no hint of finality from Mike Stone. The start of Wednesday’s practice looked a lot like the thousands of others he’s run at Earl Lorden Field.The Minuteman coach hung the day’s workout plan near the third-base dugout’s two good...

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The newest member of the UMass men’s basketball program might have the distinction of being the player who traveled the furthest to play for the Minutemen.Kieran Hayward, a 6-foot-4 guard from Sydney, Australia, played one season at LSU before...

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The UMass men’s basketball team added another transfer to its ranks over the weekend, and another could be on the way.Rutgers wing Jonathan Laurent announced on Twitter on Saturday, after visiting Amherst last week, that he’ll be a Minuteman. He’ll...

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On Wednesday, UMass women’s lacrosse coach Angela McMahon said the key to beating Colorado in the first game of the NCAA Tournament was controlling possession.Even she couldn’t have dreamed how well her team would heed those instructions after...