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By JEFF LAJOIE

The middle portion of a huge three-day stretch for the Turners Falls softball team saw the Thunder save their best for last on Friday.Trailing 3-1 entering the top of the seventh inning against Frontier, Janelle Massey clubbed a game-tying two-run...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Bob York was one of the first people I ever met at the Greenfield Recorder.My first foray in the business came in 2004. A freshman at UMass, I finagled my way into 14 Hope St. when the newspaper was in need of high school football stringers. I figured...

By JEFF LAJOIE

SPRINGFIELD — For the first time ever, Springfield will serve as a regional host for the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament this week.The MassMutual Center will play host to Denver, Maine, Cornell and UMass in a four-team regional with a spot...

By JEFF LAJOIE

The UMass hockey team is dancing.The Minutemen got in just under the wire when they were selected for the NCAA Division 1 Tournament. UMass earned a spot in the 16-team field as the final at-large pick when the brackets were released during the...

By JEFF LAJOIE

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A year removed from the worst loss in its Atlantic 10 conference tournament history, the UMass men’s basketball team stared another one directly in the face halfway through Thursday’s Atlantic 10 quarterfinal at Barclays Center.From a...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Game postponed due to high wind advisory.Welcome to life in the state tournament.Such is the case for the Greenfield hockey team, which had its MIAA Division 4 state playoff game Wednesday at Martha's Vineyard postponed until Thursday due to expected...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s Championship Saturday for two local high school basketball programs.The Pioneer girls and Mahar boys will look to add some hardware on Saturday when they both take the floor to play in Western Massachusetts championship games.The Panthers get a...

By JEFF LAJOIE

GREENFIELD — Silence overcame Nichols Gymnasium with 32.4 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s Greenfield-Drury girls basketball game. The result was no longer in doubt, the visiting Blue Devils ahead by 15 points and headed toward an...

By JEFF LAJOIE

WEST SPRINGFIELD — After winning three consecutive Western Massachusetts titles, the Greenfield hockey team has found itself as the target of teams across the region.Taconic, which lost in the finals of two of those three championships, was finally...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Five local wrestlers are still in the mix at the MIAA Division 3 Wrestling Championships.Brackets were wrestled down to the semifinal round and consolation round of four after Day 1 action on Friday at Wakefield Memorial High School. Day 2 action...

By JEFF LAJOIE

The basketball postseason is upon us.The PVIAC released brackets for next week’s sectional tournaments on Friday, and the majority of Franklin County high school programs found their way into the postseason fields.Four local boys’ teams and five...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It seems that no matter what happens during a UMass men’s basketball game, all roads lead to a photo finish in the end.Such was again the case on Sunday at the Mullins Center in Amherst.The Minutemen trailed Rhode Island for almost the entire first...

By JEFF LAJOIE

When Pioneer’s Scott Thayer reached the 300-win mark last week in the Panthers’ victory over Mount Greylock, he joined elite company among Recorder area boys basketball coaches.Thayer became just the fifth boys basketball coach in the area to topple...

By JEFF LAJOIE

NORTHFIELD — Another dominant win by the Pioneer boys basketball team was a milestone one for head coach Scott Thayer.The Panthers’ 72-25 victory over visiting Mount Greylock at Messer Gymnasium on Tuesday night was win No. 300 in Thayer’s coaching...

By JEFF LAJOIE

HOLYOKE – Penalties can often make the difference in high school hockey.Such was the case for Greenfield on Wednesday night.The Green Wave led 3-2 in the third period against Gardner during the semifinal round of the Chicopee Winter Classic at...

By JEFF LAJOIE

As the high school hardwood season prepares for opening night on Thursday, a pair of Franklin County schools will not be sponsoring varsity programs this winter.Turners Falls High School will not compete as a girls varsity program this winter, same...

By JEFF LAJOIE

Following Saturday’s 31-18 loss to Connecticut, the UMass football team’s 2023 season officially came to its conclusion. It’s a big offseason for the Minutemen, and work has begun immediately in hopes of continuing to build a program that finished 3-9...

By JEFF LAJOIE

SUTTON – The Frontier field hockey team shot out of the gates like a rocket for the opening 10 minutes of Saturday’s MIAA Division 4 quarterfinal. The 12th-seeded Redhawks had a lead, and looked primed for more.But No. 4 Sutton didn’t let in a second...

By JEFF LAJOIE

With a penalty shootout looming in hostile territory, Ashley Taylor and the Frontier field hockey team took matters into their own hands on Wednesday.Taylor buried the game-winning goal with just three minutes remaining in double overtime, lifting the...

By JEFF LAJOIE

GREENFIELD — Clinging to just a one-goal lead at halftime, the Greenfield field hockey team kicked things into overdrive over the final 30 minutes on Friday.The second-seeded Green Wave tallied six goals in the second half, including three in a span...

By JEFF LAJOIE

A lot has changed for the UMass women’s basketball team since they last took the court on March 20 — an 89-87 loss to Harvard in the second round of the WNIT.Head coach Tory Verdi left to take the job at Pittsburgh, and Mike Leflar was elevated to the...