Sports
High schools: Mohawk Trail softball pulls away from Pioneer, 19-4 (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — After a big first inning for Pioneer, Riley Giard and the Mohawk Trail softball team shut the Panthers offense down the rest of the way. The Warriors got things going with two runs in the first inning but the Panthers responded by tacking...
High Schools: Frontier track opens season with pair of victory over Athol
The defending Intercounty League track and field champion Frontier Redhawks looked every bit the part in their opening meet of the season on Wednesday against Athol. The Redhawk girls walked away with a 145-0 victory over the Bears while the Frontier...
Baseball: Hugh Cyhowski tosses one-hitter as Pioneer blanks Frontier 10-0 (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier baseball team struggled to solve Pioneer’s Hugh Cyhowski on Wednesday.Cyhowski was dealing from the opening pitch on. He didn’t allow a runner to reach base until the fourth inning (hit by pitch), and through six...
On The Ridge with Joe Judd: Don’t feed those turkeys
MassWildlife reminds us that April through May is the height of the breeding season for wild turkeys and, as a result, turkey activity is increasing daily across the Commonwealth.In some areas turkeys may even act aggressively by pecking, following,...
High schools: Seventh inning rally lifts Turners baseball past Athol
It wasn’t looking good for the Turners Falls baseball team heading into the bottom of the seventh inning against Athol on Tuesday. The Bears held a 2-0 lead while Logan Cormier had held the Thunder to just three hits through six innings. Cormier came...
Colton Cowser has 4 RBIs, Corbin Burnes shuts down Boston’s bats as Orioles beat Red Sox 7-1
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
BOSTON — Colton Cowser drove in four runs, Corbin Burnes allowed two hits over seven innings and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Red Sox 7-1 on Tuesday in Boston’s home opener. Cowser had a pair of RBI doubles, the second driving in two runs in the...
Baseball: Beau Elson pitches Hopkins Academy past Greenfield (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — Welcome back to western Mass. baseball, Beau Elson. The Fordham commit who returned to Hopkins Academy from Phillips Exeter this year, made his first start on the mound this season for the Golden Hawks against Greenfield on Tuesday.The...
Bulletin board: State hoop shoot winners announced
The Knights of Columbus State Free Throw Championship took place on Saturday in Holliston, with a number of locals bringing home trophies.From Athol, Austin Lyesiuk took fourth place in the age 9 boys group, Elijah Smith placed fifth in the age 10...
Track & field preview 2024: Frontier aims for repeat Intercounty League titles
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Two years ago, Frontier’s Jack Vecellio captured an all-state title in the pole vault while Greenfield’s Liviu Mihailicenco won a state championship in the high jump. On the girls side, Greenfield’s Tess Rancourt placed third at New Englands in the...
UConn concludes a dominant run to its 2nd straight NCAA title, beating Zach Edey and Purdue 75-60
By EDDIE PELLS
GLENDALE, Ariz. — A basketball beatdown. A coaching clinic. A double-digit domination. Take one guess who finished off a romp through college basketball again. You bet, it’s UConn — a program built to win now, and often, and by a lot every time the...
High schools: Franklin Tech softball opens season with win over Wahconah (PHOTOS)
The Franklin Tech softball team jumped on visiting Wahconah early on Monday in Turners Falls. The Eagles put four runs on the board in the first inning and tacked four more on in the second to take an early 8-0 lead. Tech held on from there, with...
Softball: Defending state champion Greenfield opens title defense with 23-0 win over Northampton
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — Not a bad way to start a bid for a three-peat.Behind a 13 strikeouts from MacKenzie Paulin and a whopping 23 runs from the Greenfield offense, the Green Wave – winners of the last two MIAA Division 5 state championships – picked up right...
Softball: Madi Liimatainen, Turners Falls cruise to 12-0 season-opening win over Hopkins Academy (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — The Turners Falls softball team’s bats were on fire to open the season on Monday against Hopkins Academy. In a rematch of last year’s MIAA Division 5 semifinal, the Thunder cracked six hits in the opening two innings to race out to a...
Bulletin Board: Pioneer alum Scott McDonough shines at the Coast Guard Spring Invitational for UMass Dartmouth
UMass Dartmouth’s Scott McDonough had a career performance at the Coast Guard Spring Invitational in New London, Conn., on Saturday. McDonough, a Greenfield native who graduated from Pioneer Valley Regional, hit a mark of 23 feet, 2.25 inches in the...
Reports: John Calipari leaving Kentucky to take Arkansas job
CONNOR PIGNATELLO
John Calipari has taken the head coaching job at Arkansas, according to multiple reports late Sunday night. The contract is expected to be completed within 24 hours.Calipari spent 15 seasons at Kentucky, where he won over 400 games and a national...
Shelburne Falls’ Kristian Whitsett wins 2024 Berkshire Highlands Pentathlon (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
CHARLEMONT — It was a beautiful day at Berkshire East on Saturday for the 2024 Berkshire Highlands Pentathlon. Athletes from all over traveled to Charlemont to compete in the grueling pentathlon, which begins with a 4.3 mile run that starts on...
Local roundup: Frontier boys volleyball wins second match in a row with 3-1 triumph over Putnam
Make it two in a row for the Frontier boys volleyball team. After knocking off PV Christian on Wednesday, the Redhawks traveled to Springfield to face Putnam on Friday and behind 17 kills for Aleks Carey, walked away with a 3-1 victory in their first...
On The Run with John Stifler: It’s officially Tuesday race season in Northampton
That hill in the third mile is a little toughie. You’ve been pacing yourself around the large field next to the Mill River, keeping mind, lungs and legs together, and ahead lurks the abrupt turn into the woods where the trail rises gradually, then...
High school tennis preview 2024: Frontier boys looking to build on strong season
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Could this be the year a Recorder area tennis team makes it past the MIAA Round of 32? In the two years since the MIAA switched to a statewide format, area tennis teams have done well qualifying for states, but have struggled when getting there. In...
High school football: Pioneer Valley Regional's Noah Gamache to receive Francis X. Keating Award for overcoming adversity
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Not many 9-year-old kids are faced with the type of decision Noah Gamache had to make. Gamache — now a senior at Pioneer Valley Regional — was born with clubfoot, a birth defect in which the foot is twisted out of shape or position. As he grew up, two...
