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By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

SOUTH HADLEY — Sabrina Bardwell was dead set on field hockey.It was the beginning of the school year in the early 1990s, and the seventh grader was choosing her fall sport. But her mother, Betsy Riley, had just started a one-week volleyball program at...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Coming into the Belchertown girls volleyball team’s match with Lenox on Tuesday night, Orioles senior captain Vivian Ross needed just one assist to reach 1,000 for her career – which has spanned four years including this fall.Although it...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

For the first time in 21 years, Sean MacDonald’s hulking figure won’t be patrolling the sidelines at Frontier girls volleyball matches. MacDonald retired from the girls program last year after 429 wins, 18 western Mass. titles and 11 state...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Before she became the best libero in Western Mass., Amherst’s Liza Beigel was trying to decide whether she wanted to keep playing volleyball or not. Beigel grew up playing soccer and was an excellent player, joining a club team and competing against...

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

After dropping the first set to South Hadley, Granby came back with a vengeance in the second set. With the score tied 7-7, Madison Bombard stepped up to the service line for Granby and put the Rams in control, reeling off eight points to give the...

It was a day to remember for Lauren Marjanski.The South Hadley senior needed two points to eclipse 100 for her career coming into Wednesday’s game against Pittsfield. During the first half, with an assist already under her belt, the ball found...

By HANNAH BEVIS

NORTHAMPTON — Last season the South Hadley girls volleyball team won just one set all year. In comparison, their 2022-23 campaign is off to a roaring start — the team has won its three first matches of the season, two of those five-set thrillers....

In a highly contested dual meet between the Amherst and Longmeadow girls cross country teams, the ‘Canes ran away with a resounding victory on Tuesday.Longmeadow’s Ada Grant ran the fastest time of the afternoon (21:27), but the next three runners...

Five different players found the back of the net for the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School boys soccer team on Friday afternoon in a 5-0 shutout win over Franklin Tech.Teddy Scott, Julian Lee-Choi, James Scott, Nolan Gage and Patrick...

By HANNAH BEVISand THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Sean MacDonald era with the Frontier girls volleyball team is coming to an end at the conclusion of this season.MacDonald — who has won 11 state titles with the Redhawks, the second most for any program in the Commonwealth — said he plans for this...