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GREENFIELD — After the tee shots on the par-3 Hole No. 15 at Country Club of Greenfield, partners Andy Lesenski and Chris Austin, as well as Sam Wolanske, were on the green during the Championship Flight finals of the 79th Invitational Four Ball at on...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — A lot has changed since Andy Lesenski and Chris Austin won the 2011 Invitational Four Ball at the Country Club of Greenfield. The pair took home the title in the 66th edition of the tournament as some of the younger players in the field,...

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GREENFIELD — Locked into the No. 2 seed for the Western Mass. American Legion Junior Division playoffs heading into its final regular season game against North Adams, Greenfield Post 81 was able to rotate its lineup and get its players at-bats on...

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GREENFIELD — For 39 of the 40 teams in the Championship Flight of the 79th Invitational Four Ball, Thursday’s qualifying round tends to be the most stressful. Only 16 teams advance to Friday’s match play in the top bracket of the event.It’s stressful...

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MacKenzie Paulin’s play on the softball field has given her the opportunity to fundraise for “A Shot For Life.”A Shot For Life is a sports-based non-profit organization that funds health and cancer research initiatives. Paulin, who helped lead the...

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The field is set for the Country Club of Greenfield’s 79th Invitational Four-Ball, with 104 pairings and 208 golfers set to hit the course beginning Thursday for the opening day of the tournament. Mother Nature made her presence felt at the 78th...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — With a spot in the Western Mass. American Legion semifinals on the line Monday, both Greenfield Post 81 and Wilbraham Falcons struggled to put runs on the scoreboard. Neither squad produced a hit through three innings before Wilbraham’s...

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Franklin County will be represented at the 2024 Bassmaster Junior National Championship. Ben Johnston, a rising freshman at Frontier Regional, and Sam Bucala, a rising freshman at Greenfield High School, placed first in a Massachusetts qualifier and...

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GREENFIELD — An early lead for Hilltown Tents quickly evaporated against BankESB on Thursday in a Tri-County League Baseball contest. Hilltown raced out to a 6-0 lead after one but ESB kept chipping away, scoring three in the second and two in the...

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GREENFIELD — While the high school football season is a little over a month away, local teams are finding ways to improve and get better in the meantime. For the past few years, Greenfield, Mahar, Athol and Franklin Tech have been playing 7-on-7...

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GREENFIELD — Area youth baseball players had the chance to learn the game from some of the top collegiate players in the country this week. The Valley Blue Sox of Holyoke held a Greenfield Youth Baseball Clinic on Monday and Tuesday at Lunt Field,...

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Want to step into Don Brown’s shoes and try to rebuild the UMass football program? A new college football video game gives you that chance.EA Sports College Football 25 released to the public Monday afternoon, the highly anticipated revival of the...

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It was a successful trip to the Bay State Games for the West girls volleyball team over the weekend. Team West — which featured Frontier’s Olivia Machon, Bailey Martin and Abigail Hernandez — opened the tournament on Saturday with a 25-21, 25-20 loss...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Make it five in a row for Andy Lesenski.Country Club of Greenfield held its club championship over the weekend, and Lesenski capturing his fifth straight title on the men’s side. Lesenski carded rounds of 67, 68 and 67 to finish with a three-round...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The 2024 Bay State Summer Games are here, with softball and baseball action kicking off this coming Tuesday while the majority of the other showcase sports get underway later in the week. Eleven Franklin County athletes will be competing across the...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — The summer is a great time to work on your game, and the DRIVE League provides that opportunity for a number of local boys high school basketball teams. Games take place multiple nights a week at Greenfield High School, with local schools...

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The Tri-County Baseball League of Western Massachusetts has undergone numerous changes since its inception in 1929, and this summer, a new area team has emerged. With Teddy Bears Pools, the longtime area team, struggling to fill out a roster last...

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For the first time in a decade, Turners Falls High School will have a new athletic director. Turners Falls alum Adam Graves has held the post since 2014, but he decided to step away following the conclusion of the school year earlier this month.During...

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

GREENFIELD — It didn’t take long for the Greenfield Post 81 Senior American Legion team to get its bats going against Westfield Post 124 on Wednesday. After struggling to hit in a 2-1 loss to Westfield earlier in the summer, Post 81 didn’t have any...