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By RYAN AMES

BOSTON – History was made on Saturday night – in more ways than one.For the first time ever, the UMass hockey team shut out Boston University in a 4-0 win over the 11th-ranked Terriers at Agganis Arena.For the first time this season, the Minutemen...

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — “Coach Joe” is now on the job.Joe Harasymiak was officially introduced as UMass’ new head football coach Friday morning with a press conference at the Martin Jacobson Football Performance Center.The 38-year-old Harasymiak becomes the...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There may be plenty of reasons for UMass fans to lament the athletic department over the past two weeks – a third-straight disappointing football season and a subpar men’s basketball start (3-5 record) among the results-based reasons outside...

The recent death of Pete Rose, baseball’s inveterate gambler, provided opportunity for an unofficial referendum on his penalty (a lifetime ban from the game) and exclusion from the Hall of Fame in light of Major League Baseball’s current embrace of...

By JEFF LAJOIE

PALMER – A season of close calls and near-misses thwarted the Belchertown football team.Thursday’s Thanksgiving game against Pathfinder was essentially a microcosm of the Orioles’ 2024 campaign.The host Pioneers completed just two passes all day, but...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s certainly been one of the more chaotic weeks in UMass football history.Less than a week removed from the firing of former head coach Don Brown, the Minutemen will somehow try and turn the page to play against one of the top programs in the...

By RYAN AMES

The No. 20 UMass hockey team will look to build upon its definitive win against Providence last weekend when it hosts Harvard and Vermont this Friday and Sunday at the Mullins Center.The Minutemen downed the 10th-ranked Friars, 5-1, after failing to...

It was a dominant start to the NCAA Division 3 Tournament for the Smith College volleyball team.The Pioneers scored a convincing 25-18, 25-17, 25-21 sweep of Endicott College in the opening round of the tournament in a match played at Goldfarb...

For the first time in 32 years, the Minutewomen are Final Four-bound.UMass claimed a historic 1-0 shutout victory over No. 10 Harvard in the NCAA Elite Eight on Sunday at Nancy Stevens Field in Storrs, Conn. With the win, the Minutewomen advanced to...

By HOWARD HERMAN

AMHERST — The finish wasn't what Frank Martin and the UMass men’s basketball team might have hoped for.The Minutemen dropped a 75-71 overtime thriller to undefeated Hofstra Saturday night at the Mullins Center. But it wasn't the final five minutes,...

By HANNAH BEVIS

EASTHAMPTON — The Cheshire Academy football rumbled into Sawyer Field ready to prove something against Williston Northampton School in the annual NEPSAC Danny Smith Bowl. The two teams had clashed earlier in the season and the Wildcats had snagged a...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s championship weekend for high school cross country runners, as local harriers will compete in the MIAA Division 2 and 3 Championships at Fort Devens on Saturday.The Division 2 races begin at 12:30 p.m. (girls) and 1:15 p.m. (boys), while the Div....

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST – Logan Sawyer's power play goal was the difference in UMass hockey's 2-1 loss to Providence Thursday night at the Mullins Center.The Friars freshman one-timed a puck past Minutemen sophomore goalie Jackson Irving -- who made his first career...

By RYAN AMES

WENHAM — It was a heart-breaking end to the season for the South Hadley girls soccer team.The Tigers dropped their MIAA Division 4 state quarterfinal matchup against Hamilton-Wenham, 3-2, in double-overtime on Wednesday night at Gordon College.Tessa...

By JESSE KOLODKIN

PITTSFIELD – To win big, you need players, rookies and veterans to step up. Tied after full time and two overtime periods, Saturday’s MIAA Division 4 Boys Soccer Round of 16 game at Berkshire Community College went to best-of-five penalty kicks.Both...

By GEORGE MILLER

EASTHAMPTON – The final ledger won't come out unblemished for Williston Northampton football, but the Wildcats still have one more game in the bank for themselves this fall.Williston rode a 7-0 start to the season into Saturday's regular-season finale...

By HOWARD HERMAN

WILLIAMSTOWN – In the days before Saturday’s “Biggest Little Game in America,” Amherst College head coach E.J. Mills said the game was about much more than just football.“Obviously, we wish we were in a better situation than we are,” Mills said. “But...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After knocking on the door of a state semifinal appearance the last few years, the Frontier field hockey team is heading to the MIAA Division 4 Final Four.The Redhawks reached the state quarterfinals in both 2022 and 2023 but on...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier girls volleyball team had to reset after the opening set of its MIAA Div. 4 Round of 16 contest against Rockland on Wednesday. The sixth-seeded Redhawks led 21-13 in the opening set but the 11th-seeded Bulldogs didn’t go...

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I’m ready to carve the turkey. White meat or dark meat? I go for the white but I always remember my grandfather; he said the neck was the best part. I have yet to eat a neck, but one does wonder why turkeys have two...

Two goals from Cajun Benson helped the Smith Academy boys soccer team advance in the MIAA Division 5 Tournament on Sunday.Benson tallied twice, and assisted on another as the 29th-seeded Falcons notched a 4-0 win over No. 36 Upper Cape Cod Tech in a...