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By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — During Brad Miller’s 16 seasons as head coach of the Longmeadow boys soccer team, he won three Western Mass. championships and led the Lancers to an undefeated season and Division I state title in 2019.So considering Hampshire Regional...

By GARRETT COTE

HATFIELD — It wouldn’t be a Granby/Smith Academy boys soccer game without a close, physical and grind-it-out style of play.The two teams have tied their last five regular season meetings dating back to 2021, and a game hasn’t been decided by more than...

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

The South Hadley girls soccer team secured a 20-win campaign, a No. 1 seed in the MIAA Division 4 state tournament and a spot in the state championship game last season, but they ultimately came a goal short of their ultimate objective – a state...

A battle between two of the top teams in Hampshire County ended in a draw during season-opening action in South Hadley on Monday.Both South Hadley and Belchertown notched second-half goals, and the two rivals settled for a 1-1 draw in girls soccer...

To say it was a chippy game at Rudd Field in Amherst on Sunday would be an understatement. The UMass women's soccer team held its home opener on Sunday against Rutgers, with 29 total fouls called between the two teams. The physical play came to a head...

By GARRETT COTE

She may be committed to play soccer at Amherst College come the fall, but Mekhala Costello has shown the state of Massachusetts she is quite the golfer as well.After taming the tough Taconic Golf Club with a 2-under round of 69 during the first round...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The start of the fall season officially marks the beginning of UMass’ athletic programs’ farewell campaign through the Atlantic 10, as the Minutemen and Minutewomen are set to join the Mid-American Conference (MAC) following the conclusion...

By GARRETT COTE

After defeating Sporting CT 1-0 this past Sunday in the United Women’s Soccer (UWS) league, the New England Mutiny advanced to the 2024 UWS National Championship Weekend in Buffalo, N.Y.Friday features the two semifinal matchups at All-High Stadium,...

By GARRETT COTE

All but one sport featuring local players has crowned a gold medal winner at the Bay State Games this summer, with several medals given out over the weekend. Only girls basketball remains (July 19-21), as softball, baseball, girls soccer, boys soccer,...

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — The early portions of summer have provided Rich Marjanski with plenty of flashbacks to when he used to coach his three daughters on the same team during their youth soccer days about a decade ago.His oldest daughter Lindsay (22 years...

By GARRETT COTE

Tears uncontrollably trickled down Vanessa Butynski’s face as she sat inside her Belchertown home.The Northampton High School girls soccer team – which she’s coached since 2016 – was on a bus headed to Chicopee Comp for the opening round of the 2023...

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Lauren Marjanski panicked for a brief moment.The South Hadley senior and College of Saint Rose commit had just found out the school she was going to play soccer at next fall would be shutting down after summer classes at the end of June...

CONNOR PIGNATELLO

AMHERST – UMass is moving its 21 sports from the Atlantic 10 to the Mid-American Conference, though the Minutemen don’t exactly have a home for every sport in their new conference.Baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross...

By GARRETT COTE

Hampshire Regional boys soccer head coach Dan Moynahan decided midway through the year that he was going to put seventh grader Aidan Miklasiewicz on varsity despite him being undersized compared to the other players on the field he’d be competing...

By GARRETT COTE

BELCHERTOWN — In front of a crowd filled with friends, family, coaches, and other members of the Belchertown community on Friday, Orioles girls soccer star Madysen LePage signed her National Letter of Intent to play at the collegiate level.LePage’s...

By HANNAH BEVIS

There are some years where choosing a Player of the Year is challenging — often there are a lot of talented individuals, and singling one out isn’t easy.This year, choosing Lauren Marjanski as the Daily Hampshire Gazette’s Girls Soccer Player of the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Jack Holt spent a Cape Cod vacation with his toes stuffed into shooting boots rather than the sand.The Belchertown senior broke his scapula during the summer soccer season and returned just in time for a family beach trip. He and his younger brother...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

For Lauren Marjanski, soccer has always been a family affair. Her older sisters, Lindsay and Paige, played the sport before her, and she grew up kicking the ball around with them. Her father, Rich, coaches the South Hadley girls soccer team, and when...

By DANIELLE DUSEAU

BELCHERTOWN — When Longmeadow pulled up to Jabish Brook Middle School with nine players Monday, Belchertown North initially didn’t take it seriously.“You think ‘oh, this isn’t going to be hard,’ even though Longmeadow is a great team,” Belchertown...

By ELLIOT WELD

HALDEY — Lane Hall-Witt, a rising freshman, scored his first two goals of the season, as Hadley beat South Hadley 3-0 in Pioneer Vlaley Summer Soccer League action on Monday.“I just got good balls from my teammates and I finished them,” Hall-Witt...