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By RYAN AMES
BOSTON – Belchertown’s Grace Perron and Northampton’s Amalia Guerra highlighted Hampshire County’s individual performances in the MIAA Division 2 Girls Swimming Championships at the Boston University Pool on Saturday afternoon.
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — Amalia Guerra is a perfectionist. She won’t stop working until she feels she has honed her craft. And even when the day comes where the Northampton girls swimming senior feels like she’s accomplished perfection, she’ll continue to find something to improve on.
SOUTH HADLEY – The South Hadley wrestling team fell short to Franklin County Tech, 36-34, in an entertaining match on Wednesday.
Amalia Guerra and Saumya Kulp won two individual events apiece, helping the Northampton girls swimming and diving team to a 90-50 victory over Chicopee in dual meet action on Friday at JFK Middle School.
By RYAN AMES
AMHERST — The Amherst swimming and diving teams both earned wins against Monson on Friday afternoon at the Amherst Middle School pool.The Hurricanes’ girls squad improved to 2-2 on the season with a 132-44 win while the boys picked up win No. 1 on the...
By GARRETT COTE
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...
By GARRETT COTE
What started as crossing off a bucket list item has turned into an improbable feat for Miranda Wingfield.Wingfield, a 2013 graduate of Northampton High School, completed the “Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming” a little over a month ago. On June 5,...
By GARRETT COTE
BELCHERTOWN — He didn’t think it would ever happen outside of a regular season dual meet, but Luke Giguere had just done something swimmers only dream of.The Belchertown senior put forth a heroic 46.62-second anchor leg in the 400-yard freestyle relay...
By GARRETT COTE
CAMBRIDGE – The boys took to the pool on Sunday ready to cap off their season in style at the MIAA Division 2 Swimming and Diving Championships at MIT.As for Hampshire County participants, the area entered Sunday with five top-five seeds – meaning...
CAMBRIDGE – Hampshire County certainly made its mark in the pool over the weekend.The MIAA Girls Division 2 Swimming & Diving Championship took place on Saturday at MIT, with a pair of local athletes battling it out for first place on the diving...
CONNOR PIGNATELLO
Hampshire County’s Division 2 swimmers will jump in the pool for one last time this weekend in the MIAA Swimming & Diving Championships held at MIT.The girls will swim on Saturday at 3:45 p.m. with the boys meet to follow on Sunday at the same time in...
By GARRETT COTE
SPRINGFIELD — It was quite the day for Northampton’s Amalia Guerra.The junior had already qualified for the state meet ahead of Sunday night’s MIAA Central/West Swimming Championships at Springfield College, so she viewed the sectionals as a tune...
By GARRETT COTE
SPRINGFIELD — Luke Giguere emerged from the water, and his eyes immediately darted to the scoreboard in the Springfield College pool. When he saw “BELCHERTOWN” accompanied by the number one, his emotions took over.Giguere slapped the water and let out...
Ava Azzaro scored 14 of her 16 points in the first half, helping the Northampton girls basketball team to a decisive 59-31 victory over Holyoke on Monday night.Northampton led 18-10 after one quarter and 34-14 at halftime.Chloe Derby drained a pair of...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — The bleachers alongside Amherst Middle School’s pool filled with supporters of the Amherst and Northampton boys and girls swim teams as the ‘Canes hosted their senior night in their final dual meet of the season on Friday evening.Amherst...
By GARRETT COTE
WESTHAMPTON – After a close first quarter between the Amherst and Hampshire girls basketball teams, the Raiders ramped up the pressure and got hot on the offensive end.The Hurricanes had no answer.Hampshire outscored Amherst 21-5 in the second quarter...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Miranda Wingfield thought her swim across the English Channel would be her swan song.The Northampton High School alum has always been a distance swimmer, but she didn’t find open water swimming until her college years. Shortly after graduation, she...
Belchertown High School swimming coach Matthew Nodell has been named Westfield State’s women’s swimming and diving coach, the school announced Thursday.Nodell, a Monson native, spent the past three seasons coaching the Orioles. He was a four-time CSCA...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Luke Giguere nearly stopped swimming before his junior season at Belchertown.“I didn’t really like it anymore,” the junior said. “I was doing it so much the past six years, every day for the past two years almost.”Both he and the Orioles are glad he...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
A special waiver allowed Lucy Smith to join the Amherst Regional high school swim team as a seventh grader.The Hurricanes couldn’t have fielded the squad without adding middle schoolers for the 2017-18 season.“It was definitely a little intimidating....
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
CAMBRIDGE – Lucy Smith placed one hand on fellow Amherst Regional senior Deborah Wells’ back, said, “I’ve got something for you.”She handed over the MIAA Division 2 Girls Swimming state finalist trophy she’d held since the Hurricanes received it to...
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