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By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE —After a slow start to the season, the Mahar girls soccer team is beginning to find a rhythm. The Senators opened with five consecutive losses, then earned a tie against St. Mary’s before winning three-of-four to gain much needed momentum...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
HATFIELD — After the Turners Falls field hockey team scored late in the third quarter to take the opening lead of the game, Smith Academy turned up the pressure. The Falcons kept the ball in the Thunder end of the field, earning five corners in the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Greenfield and Minnechaug field hockey squads became quite familiar with one another this week. The Falcons picked up a 2-0 win over the Green Wave on Monday, and on Wednesday, they made the trip up to Greenfield to square off for the second time...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE — There was a lot at stake when the Frontier and Mahar boys soccer teams met on Wednesday at the Woodward Complex. The Redhawks entered with an unbeaten record in the Moriarty League while the Senators had just one loss in league play — to...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
WHATELY — The Frontier girls soccer team is growing stronger with each game. The Redhawks, which have six sophomores, three freshmen and four eighth graders on their squad, are gaining experience with each game, and it showed on Tuesday against St....
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
AMHERST — Slow starts are becoming a discouraging theme for the Massachusetts football team of late.After scoring first quarter touchdowns against New Mexico State and Auburn in its opening two games of the season, the Minutemen have been shut out in...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
After losing an aunt to cancer, Orange’s Jay McGinnis wanted to find a way to get involved and help find a cure for the disease. McGinnis, an eighth grader who attends St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury, found out about the October Saves Challenge...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ATHOL — With rain pouring down, and a mud bowl forming at O’Brien Field, points were going to be at a premium between Athol and Franklin Tech on Friday. The Eagles managed to capitalize on a pair of turnovers and converted both two-point tries to take...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Teams around the Commonwealth found out where they stand after the first month of the season when the MIAA released its first power rankings of the fall season on Friday. As a reminder, the top 32 teams in each division secure a spot in the state...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
A pair of 2-1 teams are looking to build off confidence gained during the independent high school football slate at O’Brien Field on Friday night. Athol — which got off to a hot start with wins over Murdock and Pathfinder — will host Franklin Tech,...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — For the second time in two weeks a Franklin Tech field hockey player has reached a major milestone. First it was senior Kait Trudeau, who hit the career 100-point mark in a win over Mahar on Sept. 14. Then on Tuesday, it was Hannah...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The independent portion of the high school football schedule has drawn to a close, and now the heart of the season gets underway Friday when league play begins. The Mahar football team couldn’t have asked for a better way to enter Intercounty League...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — It didn’t take the Franklin Tech girls soccer team long to find a rhythm on offense Monday against Pioneer. The Eagles put the pressure on the Panthers early, netting two goals during the opening 10 minutes of action to take a 2-0...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE — On paper, Division 8 schools aren’t supposed to be able to hang with Division 4 schools. Somebody forgot to tell the Mahar football team that. Hosting Northampton on Friday at the Woodward Complex, the Senators knew they would need a...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE – The Mahar field hockey team is findings its groove. After dropping their first five games of the season, the Senators have gone on a hot streak, picking up wins over Turners and Smith Academy to gain some confidence heading into Thursday’s...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Mahar football team knows it’ll be facing one of its toughest tests of the year on Friday night. The Senators and the rest of western Mass. will play the final independent games on their schedule before league play begins next week. Mahar opened...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s been quite the turnaround for the Athol soccer programs this fall.On the boys side, the Bears went just 1-14-3 a season ago and were outscored 95-20 on the year, while the girls finished the season with a 7-10-1 record. In the two years since the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer girls soccer team can score goals in a hurry. Hosting Gateway on Tuesday, the Panthers found themselves in a scoreless game at the half as the Gators defense did a good job of keeping the ball away from their goal. That...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Through three and a half quarters the UMass football team and Eastern Michigan were locked in a defensive battle. That’s when both offenses came to life. UMass, which had turned the ball over four times in the game, marched down the field and punched...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
EASTHAMPTON — When the Deerfield Academy and Williston football teams met last season it was a shootout – won by the Wildcats, 49-41. When the two teams squared off on Saturday in both teams’ season opener, it was the defenses that turned into the...
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