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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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NORTHAMPTON — Already ahead 3-0 against rival Amherst, the Northampton girls soccer team set up to take a corner kick about midway through the second half.Blue Devils sophomore Lilah Sage sat at the back post when the ball came hurling toward her....

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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...

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NORTHAMPTON — There was no shortage of goals during the Smith Vocational girls soccer’s senior night on Monday against Putnam, as the Vikings erupted for four tallies in the first half and added five more in the second to trounce the Beavers 9-0...

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AMHERST — During UMass football’s game with Central Connecticut State on Saturday, Minutemen wide receiver Anthony Simpson not only didn’t play — which wouldn’t have been questioned considering he left their Week 2 game against Toledo with an injury...

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AMHERST — The best word to categorize the UMass football team’s homecoming game victory against Central Connecticut State on Saturday is quite simple. Ugly.In the 35-31 win, both teams combined for 26 penalties resulting in a whopping 241 yards. The...

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AMHERST — Of course the fate of the UMass football team’s homecoming game against FCS Central Connecticut State University was going to come down to Blue Devils quarterback Brady Olson — who transferred from UMass in the offseason — having the...

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SOUTH HADLEY — It seemed as if the only team that was going to beat South Hadley on Friday night was itself.The Tigers coughed up five, that’s right, five, turnovers — four fumbles and an interception — to a pesky Greenfield defense, each one...

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Last week, Amherst resident Sydne Didier became the first person ever to circumnavigate the island of Little Cayman – one of three islands that make up the Cayman Islands – by swimming. Didier accomplished the feat on Sept. 11, swimming a distance of...

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NORTHAMPTON — The host Northampton field hockey team found itself in the mix with powerhouse Westfield on Thursday afternoon, trailing just 1-0 midway through the third quarter.But unlike the Blue Devils, the Bombers capitalized on their chances in...

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BELCHERTOWN — Dina Brunetti was having flashbacks of her team’s rock fight of a game with Tantasqua last season during halftime on Wednesday.The Belchertown field hockey head coach felt her team controlled possession and had plenty of opportunities in...

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SOUTH HADLEY — Rich Marjanski had high praise for his defense following the South Hadley girls soccer team’s 1-0 win over Chicopee Comp on Tuesday afternoon.Now in his eighth season as head coach of the Tigers, a tenure in which his teams have won a...

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(NOTE: This is the final installment in a weekly series featuring some of the toughest golf holes across Hampshire County.)BELCHERTOWN — Throw out whatever it is you think you know about Mill Valley Golf Links.For most people, what they know or...

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BELCHERTOWN — Trailing 13-8 and facing a fourth-and-3 in his own territory midway through the fourth quarter, Northampton football head coach Joe Kocot kept his offense on the field hoping a conversion would spark the team’s struggling offense.And on...

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EASTHAMPTON — The scoreboard operator has a busy job at Williston Northampton School when the football team takes the field on Saturdays.For the past two seasons, the Wildcats have led the Northeast Prep League in points, and with a host of talented...

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HOLYOKE — It may not have been playing its most disciplined football, but the Holyoke football team capitalized on a gift from Pittsfield in the second quarter of its season opener at the Roberts Complex on Thursday night.Trailing 18-6 in the second...

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AMHERST — A course record that stood for 41 years at Amherst Golf Club was bested last week, and it perhaps couldn’t have been done by a more fitting member with familial ties to the course.Belchertown’s Michelle Morgan, the course’s 2024 women’s club...