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By GARRETT COTE
LUDLOW — It wouldn’t feel right if the Belchertown and South Hadley girls soccer programs didn’t meet in a Western Mass. final. And on Friday, for the fourth consecutive year, the two teams battled it out in the Class B playoffs – the third time in...
By GARRETT COTE
LUDLOW — Mabel Carillon stood at midfield and hesitated before making the long walk to the penalty stripe. A make would crown the No. 1 Granby girls soccer team as Western Mass. Class D champions, a miss would allow No. 2 Hopkins Academy a chance to...
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — The boys and girls soccer teams at Northampton High School will not be docked for forfeits in the PVIAC Western Mass. tournament after Northampton Public Schools won an emergency motion against the MIAA on Thursday afternoon.The decision...
The No. 4 Monument Mountain girls soccer team gave top-seeded Belchertown a run for its money in the Western Mass. Class B semifinals, but the Orioles buckled down and prevailed – battling to a 2-1 victory on their home field Tuesday night.For the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — After the Pioneer and Smith Academy boys soccer teams played twice in the regular season — and the Panthers won the second game just 1-0, the expectation was for a tough, low-scoring affair on Tuesday when the two Schmid League foes met...
By GARRETT COTE
GRANBY — Riley Goodhind stepped to take a corner kick about two-thirds of the way through the second half of Tuesday afternoon’s Western Mass. Class D semifinal matchup between No. 2 Granby and visiting No. 3 Monson. With the game knotted at two...
By GARRETT COTE
HADLEY — Throughout the first 75 minutes of action, the No. 2 Hopkins Academy girls soccer team was knocking on the doorstep. The Golden Hawks had attempted nearly 30 shots, but they had no goals to show for against visiting No. 7 Pioneer.Then Alayna...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
CHICOPEE — It was a tale of two halves for the Frontier boys soccer team against Chicopee on Saturday in the Western Mass. Class B quarterfinals.The seventh-seeded Redhawks came out and had the majority of the possession in the opening 40 minutes,...
By GARRETT COTE
GREENFIELD — Four different players recorded a goal – all in the first half – for the Hopkins Academy girls soccer team on Wednesday afternoon, as the Golden Hawks bounced back from their first loss of the season on Tuesday with a decisive 4-0 road...
It was a special night for Madeline Hockman.The Amherst senior scored the 100th goal of her varsity career, and the Hurricanes scored all four of their goals in the second half to earn an impressive 4-0 victory over Frontier on Tuesday night.Hockman...
The Gateway girls soccer team did its best to put up a fight against Pioneer on Thursday afternoon in Northfield, but the Panthers – led by four goals from Natalie Rios – proved to be too much in a 6-0 defeat.Rios had what Pioneer head coach Matt...
After a competitive and scoreless first half between the Hopkins Academy and Granby boys soccer teams, the visiting Rams finally broke through with a goal late in the second half.Riley Goodhind received a pass from Jaxton Roy and found the back of the...
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — About a week ago, Northampton Athletic Director Dave Proulx told his school’s head soccer coaches, CJ Holt (boys) and Vanessa Butynski (girls), that he wanted to meet with their teams to deliver unfortunate news to them.Before the teams’...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
HADLEY — With the postseason approaching, every win is critical for teams on the bubble of making it into the Western Mass. tournament. The Athol and PVCICS boys soccer teams entered Thursday’s showdown both on the outside looking in, and after a 1-0...
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...
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
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
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....
By HOWARD HERMAN
PITTSFIELD — There is nothing inherently bad with a draw in soccer. Both teams pick up a point and nobody loses.There are, however, different kinds of draws.“It was an interesting test. I think it actually was a really good, hard-fought battle that I...
By GARRETT COTE
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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