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By GARRETT COTE
Last weekend, Chesterfield native Dana Kellogg and teammate Frank Ike finished ninth place at the men’s luge doubles World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. The World Championships occur every non-Olympic year.Kellogg and Ike were the fastest...
A crucial week of the season saw the Northampton girls basketball team pick up a huge win on Thursday night.Ava Azzaro put together a monster offensive night, scoring a season-high 31 points to lift the Blue Devils to a 61-53 Valley League victory...
With the top team in the Hampshire League North in town, the Hampshire Regional boys basketball team had an opportunity to shake things up in the league standings on Tuesday night.Visiting Athol did just enough to stay atop the HL North however, as...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Trailing 5-3 to McCann Tech entering the third period, the Belchertown hockey team made it clear in the locker room during the second intermission that it wasn’t going to lose on its senior night.Charlie Fijal took matters into his own hands...
By GARRETT COTE
After winning two of its first three Atlantic 10 Conference games, the UMass men’s basketball team has now lost three of its last four – including two crushing defeats at the buzzer stemming from an inability to rebound down the stretch.The Minutemen...
By GARRETT COTE
A couple weeks ago, I sat inside Smith Academy’s Sherry Webb Gymnasium in Hatfield to cover a girls basketball game between the Falcons and Duggan Academy of Springfield. As the game progressed, the displeasure from supporters only grew louder – and...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Heartbreak struck the UMass men’s basketball team for the second time in three games on Tuesday night at the Mullins Center.Clinging to a one-point lead with 12.5 seconds left after Rahsool Diggins’ acrobatic layup put the Minutemen ahead,...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
AMHERST — The Amherst hockey team played a nearly flawless game against Greenfield on Tuesday night. The Hurricanes took a 1-0 lead after one period, scored twice on the power play in the second and tacked on an insurance goal late. While its offense...
By GARRETT COTE
HATFIELD — The Smith Academy girls basketball team came into Thursday night’s game with Duggan having its eyes set on a fifth consecutive win.But Arianna DeJesus (15 points), Shanyiah Jones (12 points) and the Jayhawks’ size were too much, as the...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
FOXBOROUGH — Six-time NFL champion Bill Belichick agreed to part ways as the coach of the New England Patriots on Thursday, bringing an end to his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league’s Super Bowl era, a person...
By GARRETT COTE
Both the Easthampton and Frontier girls basketball teams entered Monday night’s contest undefeated, with the Eagles sitting at 6-0 and the Redhawks a perfect 7-0.Something had to give.Behind a season-high 23 points and five huge 3-pointers from guard...
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — Smith College guard Ally Yamada battled for a steal, poked the ball to Hannah Martin and took off running up the sideline. Martin swung it up to Yamada as time ticked down in the third quarter.Yamada had no time to think, she just had to...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — The effort and no-quit attitude that the UMass men’s basketball team showed against Dayton on Sunday was a promising sign for the Minutemen moving forward.UMass’ 64-60 loss on the road was the closest the Minutemen have come to beating the...
By HANNAH BEVIS
When Teddy King-Pollet first started running, he didn’t even know how long a 5K race was. It took just four years for him to become one of the fastest runners in western Mass., and it was thanks in part to his Bat Mitzvah tutor, former Harvard cross...
By HANNAH BEVIS
The indoor track season is already underway, and there’s plenty of talent in Hampshire County this winter. With PVIAC Meet No. 3 set for this Sunday at Smith College in Northampton, here are just a few of the top performers to keep an eye on the rest...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Kacey Schmitt never meant to coach the Amherst Regional High School volleyball team for longer than a season. Frankly, she thought she’d be done after a couple weeks. She was talked into the job by then-athletic director and friend Tom Cullen, and...
By HANNAH BEVIS
AMHERST – The UMass Minutewomen came into Wednesday’s matinee with plenty of Christmas cheer, with the coaching staff all decked out in ugly holiday sweaters. Unfortunately the Albany Great Danes played Grinch to UMass, handing the Minutewomen a 74-52...
By HANNAH BEVIS
The Northampton girls basketball team has consistently been a strong program, though they’ve hovered around the .500 mark the last couple of seasons. This year, all early signs point to them surpassing that and being serious contenders when it comes...
By HANNAH BEVIS
When asked about his team’s goals for the 2023-24 high school hockey season, Easthampton head coach Tim Pfau didn’t hesitate for a second. He knew what his answer would be. “Wright Division champions,” he said. “I think it’s our year.” If there ever...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Ella Andrews has accomplished what many athletes only ever dream of. The former Northampton High School student was one of the lucky few named by U.S. Ski & Snowboard to represent the United States at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games.The Winter...
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