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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — Welcome back to western Mass. baseball, Beau Elson. The Fordham commit who returned to Hopkins Academy from Phillips Exeter this year, made his first start on the mound this season for the Golden Hawks against Greenfield on Tuesday.The...

Sofia Holden and Mia Shaw did the job in the pitching circle, and the Amherst softball team pounded out 14 hits en route to a dominant 14-0 win over St. Mary’s in a five-inning run-ruled contest on Friday in Amherst.Holden struck out five in two...

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Sometimes I turn on the television for what a friend of mine calls “bubble gum for the mind,” just something to chew on a little bit. Once in a while that expected slight entertainment turns into something more than that, something riveting, and not...

By GARRETT COTE

Fresh off its second state championship appearance in three seasons, the Hopkins Academy baseball team and head coach Dan Vreeland are hungry for more.The Golden Hawks fell 10-5 to Bourne in the 2023 MIAA Division 5 state final, but they return all...

By JIMMY GOLEN

BOSTON (AP) — Larry Lucchino, the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the transformation of the Boston Red Sox from cursed losers to World Series champions, has died. He was 78.Lucchino had suffered from cancer. The Triple-A...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — After trading a run with Northampton in the first inning, Belchertown pitcher Josh Misiaszek got out of a small jam in the top of the second with back-to-back strikeouts and gave his team some juice headed into the dugout.The Orioles...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

GRANBY — After inclement weather caused every outdoor game on Thursday’s opening day of the spring season to be postponed, Hampshire County teams finally started spring regular season play Friday on a sunny, 50-degree afternoon.And the Granby baseball...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for Mark Simeone.The Northampton native has been racking up the honors and accolades, highlighted by last week’s induction into the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame.Simeone, who grew up in Northampton...

CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Over the weekend, the UMass baseball team recorded its first win over a ranked opponent in over 20 years, handing No. 13 Virginia its first loss of the season with a 10-5 road win on Saturday afternoon.Granby High School graduate Mike Toth was at the...

By GARRETT COTE

Believe it or not, the spring season begins this weekend for the UMass athletic department, and it’s a busy time of year with the overlap of the winter and spring sport teams all in action. Even with weather warming up this weekend, the temperatures...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

The Valley Blue Sox are entering into a new era of baseball, headlined by a new owner and a new-look team and mascot.After working with the team for 13 years, Fred Ciaglo sold the Valley Blue Sox to Matt Drury prior to the 2022 NECBL season. The...

Despite some lineup shuffling due to vacation absences, the Northampton boys tennis team handled its business Wednesday against Agawam in a 4-0 victory at JFK Middle School. The teams only played four of the five positions due to numbers available for...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The return of baseball to Massachusetts high school fields means the debut of pitch count rules that were supposed to take effect last season.Varsity pitchers are now limited to 115 pitches per outing. If they throw the 115th pitch during an at bat,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HOLYOKE — Tommy Bouvier watched two of his PeoplesBank teammates walk on eight straight balls.He stepped into the batter’s box at Mackenzie Stadium in the second inning with the bases loaded looking for one thing.“I knew that he was struggling, and...

By ADAM HARGRAVES

MILFORD — It was a magical summer, even though it ended in a loss for Northampton Post 28.Northampton lost 9-4 to Milford Post 59 at Fino Field Tuesday afternoon to fall out of the American Legion state baseball tournament.“It was a magical season,”...

By ELLIOT WELD

NORTHAMPTON — Ben Fowler’s walk-off single in the eighth inning gave Northampton a 4-3 win over Longmeadow in a Western Massachusetts Mickey Mantle baseball playoff game Tuesday. After Jake Brittain and Orion McLain both walked with two outs, Fowler...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SPRINGFIELD — Had one sixth inning throw been on target, Northampton’s dream American Legion season might be over.Instead Post 28 is still alive after Wednesday’s 8-7 win over East Springfield that set up Thursday’s winner-take-all championship...

 By ADAM HARGRAVES

NORTHAMPTON — In Game 1 of a best-of-three series to decide a Western Massachusetts Legion championship, Northampton Post 28 faced a situation it hadn’t seen all year.An immense deficit, which East Springfield built after a nine-run second...

By ELLIOT WELD

AMHERST — Five runs in the first inning, including a three-run home run from Luke Leonard, helped Amherst beat Frontier 9-1 in the first game of the double-elimination Mickey Mantle baseball playoffs Tuesday.With the score 2-0 after Amherst had hit...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Justin Colpack stared down an 0-2 count.The deciding game of Easthampton’s Intermediate Little League state championship series against Lincoln-Sudbury was tied Sunday in Auburn.Ryan O’OLeary stood on first base for Easthampton after opening the sixth...