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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.

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.

Tuesday will stand as an afternoon Hampshire Regional’s Mary Thibault won’t soon forget. The Raiders senior not only recorded a hat trick with three goals in Hampshire’s 10-5 victory over Chicopee Comp, she tallied her 100th career point in the process in front of a home crowd in Westhampton.

Smith Academy pitcher Harry LaFlamme was on fire on the mound against Mahar on Monday in Hatfield. 

Old school coaching tells us to leave emotion out of sport.We’ve heard it all before – Toughen up! We need you! Get it together! Stop crying!

The Hampshire Regional softball team knew it had its hands full with Westfield ace Shea Hurley on Friday afternoon, but the Raiders were more than ready for the challenge. Hurley hadn’t given up more than three runs all season coming in.

By RYAN AMES

WESTHAMPTON — The Hampshire Regional baseball team overcame an early 3-0 deficit to defeat Easthampton, 5-3, on Thursday afternoon at Earl Tonet Baseball Diamond.

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — It was one of those days at the plate for the Hopkins Academy softball team on the road against Northampton on Wednesday afternoon. Any ball that came near the zone, the Golden Hawks got a bat on it, and they raced around the bases to put pressure on the Blue Devils’ defense in each inning.

By RYAN AMES

The Amherst girls lacrosse team had the most successful season of head coach Andrew MacDougall’s tenure in 2024. The Hurricanes went 19-3 and won their first ever Western Mass. tournament Class B title in an overtime victory against Belchertown.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD —The Frontier boys volleyball team knew it had a gauntlet of a schedule to get through this week. 

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Nobody has had an answer for the Amherst Regional boys lacrosse team through three games this season, and South Hadley was no exception on Monday afternoon.

The South Hadley softball team doubled their win total on the season in its 11-0 victory over Easthampton on Friday in South Hadley.

I rarely listen to podcasts, but “The Omnibus Project,” by musician John Roderick and “Jeopardy” host Ken Jennings caught my ear months ago. Besides the fact that a typical installment lasts about as long as one of my workouts on an exercise bicycle and weight machines, Roderick and Jennings are pretty funny, and they dig into some wonderfully obscure subjects. They found themselves in particularly obscure territory recently, when they chatted about pedestrianism, which, as you’ve correctly supposed, is a fancy word for walking.

Keller Mahoney matched Lenox’s output by himself Thursday afternoon, as he tallied four goals and added two assists in a dominant showing for the Northampton boys lacrosse team. The Blue Devils used his offensive outburst to cruise past the Millionaires, 9-4, on their home turf and claim a victory in their season opener.

Make it three wins in a row to open the season for the Frontier baseball team. 

By BEN BAUMER

The Hampshire Regional YMCA Dolphins Swim Team concluded their winter season schedule recently. This season marks the second under head coach Jay Fritz, who was assisted this year by Ania Axas and Hannah Creamer.

Make it two wins in a row to start the season for the Amherst Regional boys tennis team, as the Hurricanes used two lengthy three-set doubles victories to get past Belchertown, 4-1, at the Amherst Middle School tennis courts on Tuesday afternoon.

By GARRETT COTE

GRANBY — The Hopkins bats may have gotten off to a slow start on Thursday afternoon, but the Golden Hawks quickly shook off any early-season rust and came alive with seven runs over the final two innings as they went on the road to defeat Granby, 10-0, in the two programs’ season opener.

By STEVE MCKELVEY

As the 2025 baseball season opens, it will again reveal what is likely one of the strongest pipelines of any sport management program in the country. That pipeline, into what is one of the hardest segment of the sport industry to break into, leads to Major League Baseball’s 30 teams, and specifically into their “front office.” The McCormack Department of Sport Management will count 48 alums currently employed in the front office of MLB teams. You read that right: 48 alums.