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By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
AGAWAM – Moriah Luetjen’s best race is the 400 meters. Two years ago as a freshman, she won it at the MIAA Division 4 Outdoor Track & Field Championships and followed it up with a first-place finish in the Freshman 400 at New Balance Outdoor...
The Granby softball team scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning, only to watch visiting Smith Vocational take an 11-10 lead into the bottom of the seventh.The Rams rallied however, plating a pair of runs to walk off with a wild 12-11...
Artificial intelligence is experiencing a renaissance. Tools like ChatGPT and Copilot are becoming a daily part of conversations. AI’s history stretches back nearly as far as computers themselves, but the advent of generative AI has made it more...
After a tight game with West Springfield earlier this season, the Easthampton softball team cruised to victory in the rematch on Tuesday.The Eagles scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning and rolled from there, taking down the Terriers 14-2...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
It wasn’t easy for road races to recover following the pandemic. But when you have local support like the WMass Mother's Day Half Marathon in Whately, things can get right back to pre-COVID levels.The 14th running of the Mother’s Day Half Marathon...
Amherst’s Sofia Holden locked it down in the circle on Friday against the Belchertown softball team. A day after recording her 600th career strikeout, Holden went the distance, struck out 11, scattered four hits and walked two while keeping the...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
Melissa Power-Greene is surrounded by Northampton girls lacrosse. Her eldest daughter Kyla Power is the varsity coach, her husband Ousmane Power-Greene is the JV coach, and her youngest daughter Imanni Power-Greene is a sophomore star attack.Normally,...
The Belchertown Twirlers competed at the Northeast Regional Championships at Holyoke Community College over the weekend. After finishing in first place at the Massachusetts State Championships back on March 23, Belchertown’s team of seven earned a bid...
The Northampton American Legion baseball team (19U) will be holding tryouts on Sunday, May 12 from 10 a.m. until noon, and then again on Sunday, May 26 from 9-11 a.m.Tryouts will be held at Arcanum Field in Florence. For more information email Mike...
The average sports-page reader knows that the fastest runners in a major marathon are likely to be Kenyan or Ethiopian. But another part of the Boston and London marathons is dominated by northern Europeans, plus Americans, Japanese, Australians and...
By GARRETT COTE
The MIAA released its second edition of the spring sports power rankings across the state on Tuesday. Out of all sports, Hampshire Regional softball holds the highest ranking in Hampshire County, checking in at No. 5 in Division 4. Hopkins leads all...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
It was the beginning of the 2021-22 hockey season, and Amherst captain Carter Beckwith and assistant captain Nick Paul were tasked with finding a second assistant captain to round out the group.It didn’t take long for the pair of seniors to come to a...
By BRADYN COTE
In only his second year of indoor track and field at Amherst Regional High School, Nicolas Lisle quickly became one of the most talented runners in the state. In a sport that pushes one to their limits both physically and mentally, it leaves very...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — After giving up a run in the first inning, Franklin Tech pitcher Hannah Gilbert locked in for the final six frames on Friday against Hopkins Academy. The junior gave up one hit and one walk in the first and one hit in the third, but...
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — Youth baseball and softball is just around the corner in Northampton, as the city’s nine youth baseball teams and three youth softball teams will be in action against other local teams next week to kick off their respective seasons.But...
Trailing 4-2, the Hampshire Regional baseball team tied things up on the road against Pioneer Valley Regional with a clutch two-run double off the bat of Drew Thompson, who went 4-for-5 with the two RBI on the day.But the Panthers responded with a...
About 10 years ago, the two major urban centers of central and western Massachusetts decided to engage in new regional industrial policy to spur on their local economies. Worcester and Springfield had been effectively hollowed up by decades of...
By JOSHUA SPAULDING
NEW YORK — Gabby Thomas has an Olympic experience under her belt and two Olympic medals she can wear around her neck. And as she gears up for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials ahead of the Paris Olympics, she took part in the Team USA Media Summit on...
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
ORANGE — The Mahar baseball team couldn’t have asked for a better first inning on Monday against Smith Academy. After Sam Connors shut down the Falcons in the top of the frame, it didn’t take the Senator bats long to get going when it was their turn...
By BRIDGET MACDONALD
NORTHAMPTON — A little after the turn of the new year, Sue and Don Grant were starting to lose hope. The local couple that in 1987 launched the Northampton Cross-Country Race Series — a weekly Tuesday evening 5K that starts in April each year and goes...
Two days removed from a 1-0 loss to Ware, the South Hadley baseball team came out on top in another pitchers’ duel on Wednesday.John Viola went the distance for South Hadley, striking out four while walking just two and scattering three hits to help...
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