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By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — It’s not a given that a team is going to compete defensively in a summer league basketball game, but the Greenfield boys varsity team got after it on that end of the floor Thursday against Frontier. The Green Wave showed a press early...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
After eight seasons as an assistant and associate head coach at Keene State, Dave Hastings will slide over a chair next season.The former Pioneer Valley Regional boys basketball coach was promoted to acting Keene State head men's basketball coach for...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Post 81 Junior Legion team is ready for a busy week ahead.They got things started on the right foot the past two nights. With all the rain hitting the area this summer, Post 81 — and every other American Legion team in...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
AMHERST — The Greenfield softball team wasn’t going to be denied.The defending MIAA Div. 5 state champion Green Wave were on a quest to repeat, but to do so had to get past archrival Turners Falls, which had beaten them twice during the regular...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
While working her job at Thomas Memorial Golf & Country Club this week, Morgan Dobias has heard the same conversations throughout the club. “Everybody is talking about the Turners-Greenfield game,” said Dobias, a senior on Turners Falls. “All ages....
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Another chapter of the Greenfield-Turners Falls rivalry will be written on Friday.This one, however, will have stakes that have never been seen before. Under the old MIAA state tournament format, it wasn’t possible for the Green Wave and Thunder to...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s been a dominant postseason in the circle for Greenfield’s MacKenzie Paulin. In seven postseason games spanning from the beginning of the Western Mass. tournament to Tuesday’s MIAA Div. 5 semifinal against Tahanto, Paulin has surrendered a total...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
WESTFIELD — The Turners Falls softball team is back in a familiar position. The Thunder entered Tuesday’s MIAA Div. 5 semifinal against Hopkins looking to keep their season alive as they seek an 11th state championship in program history, but the No....
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
WESTFIELD — It’s not easy to handle the pressure of being the defending state champion as well as the No. 1 seed in the MIAA Div. 5 state tournament. The Greenfield softball team has made it look that way, though. The Green Wave cruised through the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Last year, the local softball community was just one win away from a Greenfield-Turners showdown in the MIAA Div. 5 state championship game.Could this be the first time the two rivals meet with a state title on the line?Hopkins Academy and Tahanto...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
And then there was one.While the Frontier and Greenfield baseball teams saw their season come to an end in the MIAA Div. 5 quarterfinals, the Pioneer baseball team was able to earn a win to keep their season alive on the road.Taking on No. 4 Hopedale,...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD – It’s going to take a near-perfect effort to knock off the Greenfield softball team this postseason. No. 8 Drury wasn’t able to come up with that performance on Saturday in the MIAA Div. 5 quarterfinals. Carly Blanchard got the Green Wave...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Three local track athletes will get the chance to test themselves against the best New England has to offer on Saturday. Mohawk Trail’s Emmett Johnson and Frontier’s Caroline Crocker and Ayla Starr are in the field for the New England Interscholastic...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It’s a big weekend ahead for six Franklin County baseball and softball teams, all of which are looking to lock up a spot in the Final Four of their respective MIAA tournament brackets.On the baseball diamond, Greenfield and Frontier both went on the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — It often comes down to timely hitting during the postseason, and the Pioneer baseball team got just that on Wednesday during its MIAA Division 5 Round of 16 contest against Millis. The No. 12 Mohawks put two runs on the board to open the...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer baseball team suffered its lone loss of the season in the Western Mass. Class D championship game against Ware. If you wanted to know how the Panthers would respond, Monday’s MIAA Div. 5 Round of 32 contest against O’Bryant...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The inaugural Coach Bob and Pat Hinds Scholarship Award was handed out to a pair of student-athletes at Mohawk Trail Regional last week. The scholarship, which will give $1,000 to two graduating seniors each year moving forward, was awarded to Paige...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
BUCKLAND — The runs came at a rapid pace for the Mohawk Trail softball team during its MIAA Division 5 preliminary round matchup against TechBoston Academy on Friday. The No. 25 Warriors put three runs on the board in the first inning and exploded for...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — The MVADA Vocational Softball Tournament officially goes through Franklin Tech. The Eagles, which earned the top seed in the small school bracket, earned a 5-2 win over Westfield Tech on Monday in the semis to advance to play No. 3...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
WESTFIELD — Make it back-to-back Western Mass. Class C championships for the Greenfield softball team. Taking on Mount Greylock in the title game Wednesday, Green Wave hurler MacKenzie Paulin was once again at the top of her game. The sophomore...
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