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By HOWARD HERMAN

AMHERST — The biggest play of the night was made by the smallest player on the floor.Canin Reynolds’ drive and dish to Ryker Vance with 6.9 seconds left to play led to an old-fashioned 3-point play. That gave Amherst enough of a cushion to hold off...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

NORTHAMPTON – Kyle Dale cracked a window into the lane with a jab step. His Hampshire Regional boys basketball team trailed Smith Vocational by two with less than a minute to in the Vikings gym Saturday.The Raiders had lost their first seven games of...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Saint Louis point guard Yuri Collins stepped backward to avoid a Dyondre Dominguez screen. He followed the scouting report on UMass freshman point guard Keon Thompson, who had missed the first nine triples of his career.Thompson rose without...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HADLEY – Hopkins Academy’s boys’ basketball team isn’t the biggest one around, nor are they the oldest. But the Golden Hawks had one goal at the beginning of the season – they wanted to be the fastest. “The first three practices, we were just running...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

EASTHAMPTON — Birds of a feather flock together, and that’s perhaps truest for the Easthampton girls basketball team. The Eagles are off to a fiery start to the season, racing out to an unbeaten 8-0 record thanks to Tuesday night’s win over Frontier....

By HANNAH BEVIS 

While not much changed for the UMass women’s basketball team from last season to this year, the same can’t be said for the rest of the teams in the Atlantic-10 Conference.The A-10 landscape looks much different today than it did a year ago. Between...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

GRANBY – Easthampton’s captains set an ambitious goal for the 2022-23 season that had nothing to do with wins or trophies.Seniors Matt Bacis, Sameer Hanafi and Mateo Navarro wanted to change the perception of their program in the school and community....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — The lights in Derek Kellogg’s Amherst house flickered on when he flipped the switch after five years. The family kept the home in Western Massachusetts even after UMass fired him in 2017 and he took over Long Island University.It was like...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Juan Maldonado received a warning when he took over the Holyoke boys basketball program: watch out for Jael Cabrera. The then-sophomore played and carried himself with a passion that some viewed as out of control or counter productive.“Some people...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Tony Bergeron will no longer be a member of the UMass basketball coaching staff moving forward, the school confirmed Saturday.He’s the latest member of the program to exit after Tre Mitchell and Carl Pierre entered the transfer portal last week.The...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley’s Sophie Gatzounas and Amherst Regional’s Meikkel Murray started their track and field careers with trial and error. With some nudging from their track coaches, both senior 1,000-point basketball scorers joined their...

By MATT VAUTOUR

UMass got a potential starting guard, and Jaylen Brantley got a homecoming.Brantley, a graduate transfer from Maryland, told both ESPN and CBS that he plans to complete his career at UMass.The 5-foot-11 point guard from Springfield will have his...

By MATT VAUTOUR

New UMass coach Matt McCall said he knew when he was hired that there was a good possibility players would transfer, so he said he wasn’t fazed by the five players who have already departed.“Anytime there’s change and there’s turnover. 99.9 percent of...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Amherst Regional product Devonte’ McCall approached his postgraduate season with one goal in mind: a college scholarship.After a year at the Westminster School in Simsbury, Connecticut, the Belchertown native achieved it. McCall announced Monday on...

Verified Twittter user David Jablonski joins Matt Vautour on the show this week to discuss the beginning of Atlantic 10 basketball play.