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By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Although the UMass football team didn’t win either of its last two contests, it put together arguably its best eight consecutive quarters all season long. The Minutemen dropped a crushing 35-34 overtime game to Liberty two weeks ago before...

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – It’s a three-peat.The South Hadley football team hung on to beat Holyoke, 16-14, in Thursday’s clash on Thanksgiving Day, to earn bragging rights and the ‘Battle of the Bridge’ trophy for a third straight season.The Tigers led 16-0 at...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — The past decade has felt like an entire lifetime for the Easthampton football team, each crushing Thanksgiving Day loss to rival Northampton making the food slowly lose its appeal.But after nine straight losses to the Blue Devils in the...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

EASTHAMPTON — It was true late November football in New England at Mountain View School on Thursday. Smith Vocational hosted Franklin Tech for the sixth Turkey Day showdown between the two rivals, and with driving rain coming down throughout the...

By JEFF LAJOIE

PALMER – A season of close calls and near-misses thwarted the Belchertown football team.Thursday’s Thanksgiving game against Pathfinder was essentially a microcosm of the Orioles’ 2024 campaign.The host Pioneers completed just two passes all day, but...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — There wasn’t a more thrilling Thanksgiving Day game across western Massachusetts in 2023 than the battle between Northampton and Easthampton at Mountain View School in Easthampton.The Blue Devils entered winless on the season, and the...

By RYAN AMES

The seventh installment of Thanksgiving-Day football between South Hadley and Holyoke has arrived.The Tigers and Purple Knights will square off in their own ‘Battle of the Bridge’ on Turkey Day at South Hadley’s Turf Field at 10 a.m.South Hadley has...

By GARRETT COTE

A season ago, the Belchertown football team was 8-3 and earned a spot in the MIAA Division 5 state tournament. The Orioles crushed rival Pathfinder in their annual Thanksgiving Day game, 61-14, to cap off one of their better seasons in recent...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Perhaps the passionate followers of the UMass football team weren’t necessarily surprised when news hit last week that Director of Athletics Ryan Bamford had fired former Minutemen head coach Don Brown after a 6-28 record with the team; it...

By GARRETT COTE

ATHENS, Ga. — Nobody would have blamed the UMass football team if it rolled into Sanford Stadium and played an uninspired brand of football against No. 8 Georgia given its tumultuous week – headlined by the firing of head coach Don Brown.But the...

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 GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — In the wake of UMass Director of Athletics Ryan Bamford’s firing of former head football coach Don Brown on Monday, interim head coach Shane Montgomery gave the Minutemen players the day off from practice to give them time to digest the...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — In Monday’s press release issued by UMass athletics regarding the firing of Minutemen head football coach Don Brown, Director of Athletics Ryan Bamford offered some praise for the program’s now former head coach.“Upon [Brown’s] return in...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — UMass Director of Athletics Ryan Bamford announced on Monday morning that Minutemen football head coach Don Brown has been released of his duties with two games remaining in his third season leading the program.The 69-year-old Brown finishes...

By HANNAH BEVIS

EASTHAMPTON — The Cheshire Academy football rumbled into Sawyer Field ready to prove something against Williston Northampton School in the annual NEPSAC Danny Smith Bowl. The two teams had clashed earlier in the season and the Wildcats had snagged a...

By HOWARD HERMAN

AMHERST — The decision was the right one. It did not pay off.In a tie football game, UMass kicker Jacob Lurie had a chance to be the hero. All he had to do was boot a 43-yard field goal as time expired to give his team a hard-fought victory over...

By RYAN AMES

EASTHAMPTON – The Smith Vocational football team couldn’t keep pace with Upper Cape Cod Regional Vocational Tech in its 52-20 loss in the state vocational small school quarterfinal round on Saturday afternoon at Mountain View School.The first quarter...

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY – A 20-point second quarter powered the South Hadley football team to a 27-9 win past Pathfinder in a non-playoff game Friday night.Senior Julius Hebenth scored two of the Tigers’ three second-quarter touchdowns, including a lengthy run...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The UMass football team has two more opportunities in its last three contests to salvage something this season, the first coming on Saturday afternoon when the Minutemen host Liberty for a noon kickoff at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.Through nine...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — UMass football head coach Don Brown confirmed Monday that Minutemen starting quarterback Taisun Phommachanh will miss the remainder of the season after suffering an injury against Mississippi State on Nov. 2.UMass had a bye this past...