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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Last winter saw four Recorder area girls basketball teams — Franklin Tech, Frontier, Mahar and Pioneer — reach the Round of 16 of the MIAA state tournament. How many of those teams can make it back there, or go further in the tournament? All four will...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Predicting Hampshire League South contests was no easy task last winter. The league was loaded with depth and talent, evidenced by six of the seven teams making the state playoffs. There, Mahar and Pioneer proceeded to go on runs to the MIAA Div. 5...

By JEFF LAJOIE

The challenge is substantial, but the Frontier field hockey team is ready.Three-time defending state champion Uxbridge stands in the way of the fourth-seeded Redhawks and a spot in the MIAA Division 4 championship game. Frontier and the top-seeded...

By JESSE KOLODKIN

PITTSFIELD – To win big, you need players – rookies and veterans – to step up.Tied after full time and two overtime periods, Saturday’s MIAA Division 4 Boys Soccer Round of 16 game at Berkshire Community College went to best-of-five penalty kicks.Both...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After knocking on the door of a state semifinal appearance the last few years, the Frontier field hockey team is heading to the MIAA Division 4 Final Four.The Redhawks reached the state quarterfinals in both 2022 and 2023 but on...

Tensions were high, the crowd was loud and both teams were scrambling proficiently in a wild opening set during Friday’s MIAA Division 4 Girls Volleyball quarterfinal match between No. 6 Frontier and No. 3 Joseph Case.Neither team backed down as...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON and CHRIS LARABEE

The Pioneer Regional School District’s boys and girls athletic teams will have the scores of their Western Mass Tournament games recorded as played and accurately count towards their state tournament ranking under a court ruling Thursday. Pioneer was...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Field hockey and girls volleyball brackets were released for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association state tournaments on Wednesday, but not without some changes after Hampden County Superior Court Judge Tracy E. Duncan upheld her...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Volleyball and field hockey teams will need to wait at least another day before finding out their seeds and opponents in the upcoming MIAA state tournament. The volleyball and field hockey brackets were supposed to be released on Tuesday, but after...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

High school teams around the state found out where they currently stand on Friday, as the MIAA released its initial power rankings of the fall season. The formula for making the state tournament hasn’t changed: the top 32 teams in each division earn...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TURNERS FALLS – The Athol golf team went through the expected struggles of having a group of brand new golfers when it brought its program back last fall, but the lessons learned along the way are paying dividends this season, evident in how the Bears...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Franklin Tech golf team has played its best under the brightest lights the last few seasons. The Eagles have reached the state tournament the past two years after strong showings at the Western Mass. Div. 3 championship — where they placed third...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The 2023-24 high school sports season has come and gone. The Recorder area had one spring state champion in the Turners Falls softball team, which knocked off Georgetown in the MIAA Division 5 final earlier this month at UMass. It was the Thunder’s...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

AMHERST – For the 11th time in program history, a state softball championship trophy is heading back to Turners Falls High School. It didn’t take long for second-seeded Turners Falls to take command against No. 4 Georgetown in Saturday’s MIAA Division...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

AMHERST — On Father’s Day weekend, Turners Falls softball assistant coach Jay Liimatainen couldn’t have asked for a better gift from his daughter.Madi Liimatainen, the Thunder’s ace, gave up a trio of base runners on a hit and two walks in the first...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

WORCESTER — Neither Turners Falls ace Madi Liimatainen or Hopedale hurler Lizzie Brytewski gave the opposition much to work with on Wednesday in the MIAA Division 5 softball semifinals. Brytewski kept the second-seeded Thunder lineup at bay...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

WORCESTER — The Greenfield baseball team’s magical run through the MIAA Division 5 state tournament came to an end on Tuesday. The 15th-seeded Green Wave pulled off three wins in a row to reach the state semifinals, but third-seeded Boston English was...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

It almost feels like a given that Turners Falls will be one of the last four softball teams standing in its division at the end of the season. After winning the 2021 MIAA Division 3 state championship — the last iteration of the old state tournament...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The road to a Final Four is never the same. Just look at the Greenfield and Pioneer baseball teams. The Panthers have been knocking on the door of a state title each of the past two years, reaching the MIAA Division 5 semifinals in 2022 and 2023, and...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

NORTHFIELD — For the third year in a row, the Pioneer baseball team is Final Four-bound. Hosting 12th-seeded Douglas on Sunday in the MIAA Division 5 quarterfinal round, the fourth-seeded Panthers pulled ahead 3-1 after three innings and let ace Hugh...

The Franklin Tech softball team saw its run in the MIAA Div. 5 state tournament come to a close on Saturday. The fifth-seeded Eagles traveled to play No. 4 Georgetown, but the Royals put four runs on the board in the first inning and Franklin Tech was...