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By MIKE WALSH

The Tigers came into Friday night with a game plan, and it was a good one.This iteration of the Pittsfield Generals, though, can shred game plans as quickly as junior Freddy Conyers shreds opposing special teams.South Hadley sent the opening kickoff...

By HOWARD HERMAN

DALTON —  Things did not start off that well for Amherst Friday night.Facing Suburban South foe Wahconah Regional, the Hurricanes won the toss and took the ball. It was a quick three-and-out, which led to a Wahconah touchdown.The Hurricanes put the...

By MIKE MORAN

EASTHAMPTON — The Lee football team took command early and ran away with a 41-0 victory over Easthampton on Friday night.The Wildcats scored on their first three possessions, converting on fourth down once during each drive. On defense, they contained...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Football coaches almost never use the word “perfect,” but Smith Vocational football head coach Alex Subocz did when describing his team’s first quarter in the Vikings’ 54-6 beatdown of McCann Tech on Friday night.Two blocked punts (one...

The Frontier girls volleyball team defeated Turners Falls in four sets on Friday night on the road in a matchup of two western Mass. winners from 2023 – Frontier in Class B and Turners Falls in Class D. The Redhawks won 25-11, 21-25, 25-11,...

For the second year in a row, a golf match between South Hadley and Ludlow came down a tiebreak. And for the second year in a row, the Tigers came out on top, with Justin Moskal’s 44 in the No. 5 spot beating out Ludlow’s No. 5 Noah Baghat by a single...

By GARRETT COTE

HATFIELD — For most of the fourth quarter of Thursday afternoon’s field hockey game between Turners Falls and Smith Academy, the Falcons felt they were knocking on the door of putting home the go-ahead goal.But the Thunder’s defense continued to stand...

Smith Voc’s senior captain Caitlin Willard notched her 100th career point on Wednesday as the Vikings moved to 8-1 on the season with a 8-0 win over Hampden Charter. Willard came into Wednesday’s game with 15 goals and seven assists on the season and...

By GARRETT COTE

EASTHAMPTON — Back on Sept. 12, the Easthampton and Mahar boys soccer teams played to a competitive 0-0 draw in a physical game up in Orange.Something had to give in Part II at Nonotuck Park on Wednesday afternoon.In the first half, the Senators...

Hampshire’s Kathleen Barry set a new course record at the three-mile course at Nonotuck Park (20:06) and the Raiders girls cross country team knocked off Easthampton and Monson, but were edged by Frontier on Tuesday afternoon.While Hampshire’s Ada...

For the first time all season, a team finally put together a recipe to defeat the Northampton boys soccer team.The Blue Devils entered Monday afternoon’s match with Belchertown having not lost a game in eight tries, but the Orioles had other plans on...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — Jason Borque peered over at his two players, Ryan MacGregor and Caiden Drohan, as they walked by each other during the final stretch of holes at the PVIAC Boys Golf Two-Ball Invitational on Monday afternoon at Cold Spring Country Club in...

By MIKE MORAN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Chicopee Comp football team simply wore down South Hadley.The Tigers held the bigger and deeper Colts in check, but the loss of players in the second half and a persistent Comp rushing attack late pushed the Colts to a 22-8 victory,...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — What a difference a year makes.Back in 2023, the Northampton football team didn’t win a game until its very last contest of the year, and it took a miracle touchdown as time expired. But in 2024, the Blue Devils are a completely...

Hampden Charter led PVCICS boys soccer 5-3 as the seconds ticked down on Friday afternoon in Chicopee, but the visitors erupted in the frantic final minute, scoring twice to salvage a 5-5 draw.Nolan Gage scored two goals for the Dragons and James...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

The MIAA on Friday released the first installment of its power rankings for fall sports. The power ranking formula factors in win/loss record, margin of victory and strength of schedule.In sports other than football, the top 32 teams in each division...

Take a look at the scoresheet from Gateway’s 3-0 win over Hopkins, and you might think you have double vision. Or triple vision.Eli, Ivan and Andrew Chepurenko all scored for the Gators, with Andrew’s goal coming from an Ivan assist. The Gators took a...

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — When the South Hadley girls soccer team dropped its third game of the season, 1-0, a physical, chippy match with Hampshire Regional back on Sept. 6, the Tigers couldn’t wait to meet up with the Raiders again — this time on their home...

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — Only six tenths of a point separated the Hampshire Regional gymnastics team and its third consecutive Western Massachusetts championship last season. The Raiders put up 137.7 points, slightly behind Westfield’s top score of 138.3.As...

As the seconds ticked down between Mahar and Smith Academy, it seemed the Valley league rivals might play to a 1-1 stalemate.But with one minute, 20 seconds left, Alexa Jagodzinski scored her second goal of the afternoon – the game winner – to seal a...