AMHERST — The South Hadley boys basketball team hung on to clip Amherst, 60-49, Monday night.

The Tigers led 48-33 at the start of the fourth quarter, before the Hurricanes stormed back to make it a three-point game with less than three minutes to go in regulation.

However, a four-point play from South Hadley’s Noah Hambley with 47.9 seconds left sucked the energy right out of Amherst’s home crowd and sealed it for the visitors. Hambley was fouled on a fade-away 3-point bid and after sinking the free throw, made it 58-49 in favor of the Tigers.

“We made a lot of mistakes,” South Hadley head coach Chris Gerber said. “[Amherst] played their tail off, they really cut it down, but I like our heart. I like our kids, they’re tough, they don’t quit. They don’t really get down on themselves or quit, they’re pretty good at going out and playing the next play.”

Hambley and Jack Loughrey each totaled 23 points to lead the Tigers on offense.

But it was South Hadley’s defense that made the difference during the first half, causing the Hurricanes to turn the ball over 16 times throughout the first 16 minutes of action.

“That has been the story of our season,” Amherst head coach Jamahl Jackson said. “We do too many things to beat ourselves. We dig holes sometimes too deep that’s it’s hard to climb back out of. 

“When you play good teams, you can’t beat yourself, you just can’t,” Jackson added.

Amherst trailed by 12 points at halftime (34-22), before outscoring the Tigers 16-12 in the final frame in its comeback bid.

Samuel Woodruff’s 13 points led the way for the Hurricanes, which dropped to 4-11 with its Senior Night loss.

South Hadley improved to 12-3 on the year.

“This is not a good win for us,  this is a great win for us,” Gerber said.

Girls basketball

Hoosac Valley 56, South Hadley 53 (OT) – The host Hurricanes opened overtime on a 9-0 run and managed to hold off the Tigers on Monday in Cheshire.

Trailing 44-41 in the waning seconds of regulation, CC Gurek was fouled and put home a layup. Her free throw tied the game with 11.8 seconds to play, and after a Hoosac Valley travel, the Tigers missed a game-winning 3 at the buzzer. Hoosac’s run to open OT put things out of reach.

Caitlin Dean hit a key 3 late in regulation to keep the Tigers in striking distance.

Sci-Tech 57, Smith Academy 51 — The Falcons led 28-24 at halftime and entered the fourth quarter trailing by one, but they couldn’t make enough plays down the stretch in a close home loss on Monday night.

Caitlin Graves had a great game for Smith Academy, scoring a team-high 19 points followed by a dozen points from Vivian Higuera.

Easthampton 47, Greenfield 30 — Samone Young’s 19 points led the Eagles to a decisive win on the road Monday night, as they defeated the Green Wave by 17 thanks to a 13-3 disparity in the second quarter.

Veronica Rapoza (11 points) and Piper Collins (six points) also both played well for Easthampton.

Northampton 60, Holyoke 17 – The Blue Devils led 14-0 after one quarter and 27-1 at halftime en route to a lopsided victory on Monday in Northampton.

Bri Heafey paced three Blue Devils in double figures with 19 points, while Anna Oravec followed with 17 points and Emme Calkins scored 12.

Genesis Rivera scored a team-high seven points for Holyoke, including a pair of 3-pointers.

 PV Christian 61, PVCICS 20 – Isabella Cestero and Sofia Cestero scored six points apiece for the Dragons in Monday’s loss.

Late weekend results

Girls basketball

Holyoke 49, Southwick 40 — Three Purple Knights players scored in double figures on Friday night, including Kiara Perez’s game-high 18 points that led Holyoke to its second win of the season.

Michaela Guzman scored a dozen points for Holyoke and Kylie Blaha added 10 points.

Minnechaug 51, Belchertown 40 — The Orioles played the Falcons evenly through three quarters, matching the visitors 12-12, 9-9 and 14-14 in the first, second and third quarters on Friday night. But Belchertown put up only five points in the fourth quarter and dropped a competitive game against 11-2 Minnechaug.

Aubrey Klingensmith (12 points) and Morghan Litz (nine points) were the catalysts for Belchertown’s offense in the home defeat.

Boys basketball

Holyoke 74, Northampton 64 — Jordan King-Perilli went off for a game-high 27 points, Chauncey Ruiz put up 19 points and Aden Cabrera tossed in 18 as the Purple Knights’ trio took over Friday night’s game.

Northampon’s Naihmond Peters-Wolfe scored a team-high 20 points, Luke McGrath had 15 and Brayden Nichols-Staples scored 11 in the loss. The Blue Devils were down one at halftime but were outscored by nine over the final 16 minutes.

Boys hockey

Amherst 4, Southwick 0 — Ethan Mooney lit the lamp twice to pace the ‘Canes in a blowout win over the Rams on Saturday night. Sawyer Ferro and Brach Applegate each found the back of the net as well.

Ferro, Joshua Feldman, Stephen Rich and Alex Marlin tallied assists for Amherst.

Wrestling

Hampshire 72, Gateway 12 — The Raiders wrestling team picked up a pair of wins on Saturday, one of them coming against Gateway. Eli Willard (106), Alex Florek (120), Robert Zononi (126), Taylan McColgan (132), Adin Clifford (144) and Gavin Gorman (190) all picked up wins via pin for Hampshire.

Jacob Johnson (113) and Lucas Gilbert (125) were winners for the Gators.

Hampshire 57, Frontier 24 — The other Hampshire win came against the Redhawks, where Willard (11-6 decision), Zononi (pin), McColgan (pin), Finn Dewitt (138, pin), Clifford (pin) and Cody Gaida (175, pin) won their matches.

Frontier’s Konnor James (157, pin), Sean Eich-Richardson (165, pin), Kaden James (215, pin) and Max Hunter (285, pin) earned victories in the dual meet defeat.