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Softball: Pioneer pulls ahead late to defeat Northampton, 34-29 (PHOTOS)
Trailing Northampton 12-2 after one inning, the Pioneer softball team knew it needed to put runs up in a hurry to get back in the game. The Panthers did just that. Pioneer cut the lead to 15-11 after four before erupting for 14 runs in the sixth...
High Schools: Sixth inning rally lifts Pioneer baseball past Greenfield, 4-3
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
GREENFIELD — What a way to make a return to the lineup, Ethan Quinn. The Pioneer junior stepped to the plate with the Panthers trailing Greenfield 3-2 in the top of the sixth inning, Quinn’s first at bat since the second game of the season after...
Bulletin Board: Rodney Demers sinks ace at Thomas Memorial
Rodney Demers recorded a hole-in-one at Thomas Memorial Golf and Country Club in Turners Falls on Wednesday.Demers aced No. 7, using a 9 iron to sink the shot. Mike Waterman, Mike Morin and Roger Cloutier witnessed the feat.Thomas Women's LeagueSally...
Softball: Greenfield puts up 9-spot in the 8th inning to knock off rival Turners 11-2 in extra-inning thriller (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
TURNERS FALLS — Add another chapter to the storied rivalry between Greenfield and Turners Falls. The two softball teams met Wednesday night for the second time in five days — Greenfield won the first game 3-2 — and another pitching duel ensued between...
Bulletin Board: Full night of youth baseball, softball
Gunnar Triggs was 3-for-3 with a double and two stolen bases, while Julian Golden added two hits and two RBIs and Nissa Burnett also had a hit and two RBIs to power Booska’s Flooring to a 16-2 win over the Montague Elks in a Newt Guilbault Community...
Softball: Franklin Tech's Hannah Gilbert records 100th career hit in win over Pioneer
Hannah Gilbert became the latest Franklin Tech softball player to reach the 100-hit milestone. The junior entered Wednesday’s game against Pioneer sitting at 99 career hits and cracked a single and a triple to put her over the 100 hit mark for her...
High schools: Greenfield, Pioneer track earn wins over Athol (PHOTOS)
It was a successful day for the Greenfield track team on Wednesday against Athol. Ava Fortin won the javelin (78 feet, 9 inches), pole vault (6-6), mile (6 minutes, 32 seconds) and the 800, helping lead the Green Wave girls to a 110-17 victory. The...
High Schools: Sam Connors pitches Mahar past Smith Vocational, 1-0
Sam Connors tossed a gem, and the Mahar baseball team avenged a loss to Smith Vocational earlier this season with a 1-0 win in an independent contest on Tuesday in Orange.Connors went all seven innings, striking out 10 while scattering six hits and...
Bulletin board: Greenfield Post 81 American Legion baseball tryouts begin this weekend
The Greenfield Post 81 American Legion Baseball Team, which features both junior and senior teams, will hold registration and tryouts on May 4, 5 and 11 at 1 p.m. each day at Vets Field in Greenfield. Players from all Franklin County schools are...
Baseball: Fifth inning rally propels Pioneer past Frontier (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — After knocking off Frontier 10-0 earlier in the season, the Pioneer baseball team found itself trailing 3-2 going into the bottom of the fifth inning on Tuesday when the two Suburban League West foes met for the second time this...
MIAA Power Rankings: Turners, Greenfield, Tech atop Div. 5 softball rankings
If the spring season were to end today, the MIAA Division 5 softball bracket would run through Franklin County. The MIAA released its second iteration of its spring power rankings on Tuesday, with local schools ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 4 in the Div. 5...
High Schools: Frontier boys, girls track stay unbeaten with wins over Mohawk Trail (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
BUCKLAND — It’s always a big track meet when Frontier and Mohawk Trail face off. The two squads met on Monday, and the Redhawks stayed unbeaten on both the boys and girls side as the Frontier boys picked up a 94-48 victory while the Redhawk girls...
Bulletin Board: Country Club of Greenfield tournament season gets underway
The Country Club of Greenfield held its Spring ABCD tournament on Sunday, with Robert Haigh, Valerie Esquer, John Stacy, Brian Luippold and Frank McDonald taking first with a gross score of 130. David Kennedy, Mike Plager, Steven Patenaude, TC Emerson...
Softball: Greenfield rallies with big inning for 5-4 win over Hampshire (PHOTOS)
By GARRETT COTE
WESTHAMPTON — With a Hampshire Regional runner standing on second base and two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, eighth grader Kalin Dubay stepped to the plate – the Raiders trailing by one run.Dubay worked the count and fouled off several...
UMass football: Spring Game closes one chapter for Minutemen, 2024 season fast approaching
By GARRETT COTE AND CONNOR PIGNATELLO
AMHERST — For a coach who’s been in the business for as long as UMass football head coach Don Brown has, it’s hard to find something he hasn’t already seen.But during the Minutemen’s month of spring practice, they impressed the longtime coach with...
High schools: MacKenzie Paulin lifts Greenfield softball past rival Turners 3-2
MacKenzie Paulin did it at the plate and in the pitching circle, powering the Greenfield softball team to its third win in as many days and a 3-2 rivalry victory over Turners Falls on Saturday afternoon at Vets Field.Paulin smacked a solo home run in...
Bulletin Board: Orange’s Delaney Parker helps Westfield State women’s track capture MASCAC title
Orange’s Delaney Parker helped the Westfield State women’s track & field team capture the 2024 MASCAC Outdoor Track and Field Title at the Jerry Gravel Track and Alumni Field in Westfield on Friday.Westfield’s quartet of Parker, Eliza Lee, Emily...
High schools: Seventh-inning rally helps Turners Falls softball edge Frontier 6-3 (PHOTOS)
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...
Former Recorder sports, copy editor Bob York dies at 77
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...
Keeping Score with Chip Ainsworth: Minutemen ready for their spring formal
Good morning!Over 150 gridiron alumni will be at Saturday’s UMass football spring game. Recruited to UMass when they were schoolboys, they’re returning to help coach Don Brown give his players a glimpse of the program’s legacy.Longtime Minutemen...
