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By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — The Greenfield football team struggled to contain a fierce South Hadley rushing attack on Friday at Vets Field. The Tigers leaned on senior Owen Dawson and junior Julius Hebenth on the ground throughout Friday’s contest and had much...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
After coming to life during the second half against Miami (Ohio) last week, the UMass football team is hoping to build off that momentum this Saturday when it travels to Ypsilanti, Mich. to take on Eastern Michigan. It’s a critical stretch for the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s been a few years since the Franklin Tech and Frontier football teams have faced off on the gridiron. The Eagles and the Redhawks played each other every year from 2016 through 2020, but after the 2021 league realignment, Franklin Tech found...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE — Following a pair of postponements to open the season, the Mahar boys soccer team was rearing to go on Tuesday for its season opener against Southwick. So much so that it didn't take the Senators long to light up the scoreboard. Lucas Isrow...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Mother Nature didn’t want to see a smooth start to the high school football season. With lightning strikes coming down in the area on Friday, one might have expected Thor was scheduled to make an appearance at Vets Field for the Greenfield-Chicopee...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s not easy to win games without your starting quarterback. It becomes daunting when you have to turn to your third string QB. Thankfully for the UMass football team, the latter shouldn’t be the case on Saturday when it travels to play Eastern...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — On a day where points were at a premium, the Greenfield defense stepped up to the plate. Taking on Chicopee in their season opener, the Green Wave were able to slow down the Pacers attack for the majority of the game. That held true...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s safe to say the Pioneer League North runs through Frontier. Both Redhawk programs took home Pioneer League North titles last fall and both are bringing back groups that will be able to contend once again this season. Senior Leah Gump, who took...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
After nearly a month of preparation, local high school football teams will hit the fields on Friday and Saturday to kick off their 2023 campaigns. Last season, none of the Recorder area teams — Athol, Franklin Tech, Frontier, Greenfield and Mahar —...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Sean MacDonald era with the Frontier girls volleyball team is coming to an end at the conclusion of this season.MacDonald — who has won 11 state titles with the Redhawks, the second most for any program in the Commonwealth — said he plans for this...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer boys soccer team flipped the switch in the second half during its season opener against Greenfield on Wednesday. The Panthers trailed the Green Wave 2-1 at the break, giving up a goal late in the first half to give Greenfield...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Get ready for many Greenfield-Frontier games on the field hockey pitch this season.The two rivals compete together in the Suburban League, guaranteeing two games together during the regular season. Last season the Green Wave and the Redhawks played...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — Last year’s two regular season games between the Greenfield and Frontier field hockey teams resulted in 0-0 ties.It was no surprise that goals were at a premium when the two rivals squared off for the first time in 2023 on Tuesday...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Franklin Tech girls soccer team finished with three wins in 2019 and in its return from COVID-19 in 2021, won just four games.The Eagles made a jump last year, and head coach Jason Butynski is hoping to take another step forward this fall.Butynski...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s not often that a school can bring back a sports program and have a team full of players with varsity experience, but that’s the situation Turners Falls boys soccer coach Matt Kolodziej is walking into this fall. The Thunder spent the last...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
There’s another Booska in the area making a name for himself on the golf course. Franklin Tech’s Brady Booska, son of Dennis Booska and brother of former Western Mass. champion Cody Booska, added his name to the record books at the Western...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Longtime Turners Falls High School track and field coach Ron Hebert passed away last week at the age of 83.Hebert, who grew up in Northampton, attended Northampton High School and later graduated from Springfield College, was heavily involved in the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Massachusetts football team came into the 2023 season looking to prove it wasn’t the UMass of old. The Minutemen made quite a statement in their season opener on Saturday against New Mexico State. After finishing last in the country in scoring a...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
There was a phrase Massachusetts football coach Don Brown continued to use during his press conference on Monday ahead of the Minutemen’s opening game of the season against New Mexico State: prove it. Brown and his staff went into the offseason with...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The Greenfield field hockey team is getting a nice boost this fall. A newly formed cooperative program between the Green Wave and Pioneer came together, with the Panthers joining forces with Greenfield this upcoming season. The co-op came to be after...
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