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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

AMHERST — The UMass and New Mexico State football teams met in the final game of the season in 2021, a forgettable contest in which both squads entered with identical 1-10 records and were crawling to the finish line.When the Minutemen and the Aggies...

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SOUTH DEERFIELD — The Frontier Regional athletic department will have a new leader this fall. Dave Sanschagrin — who previously served as the athletic director at Southwick High School — was hired to replace Carl Cyr as the Redhawks’ athletic...

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GREENFIELD — In just three weeks the Greenfield football team will be marching onto Vets Field to open its season against Chicopee. That preparation got underway on Friday. The Green Wave took to Vets Field for their first practice of the 2023 season...

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The 42nd Montague Mug Race is set for Saturday, with a large field of runners expected to turn out. Last year just over 60 runners headed out through Montague for the race but as of Wednesday, race director Ann Fisk said she’s already had more than...

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John Homon knew he had to find an edge on the competition during his time coaching cross country and track and field at Mount Union College in Ohio. Homon — who grew up in Athol and was part of the 1962 Athol High School football squad that went...

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SHELBURNE FALLS — Will Sanders ran the Bridge of Flowers Classic for the first time in 2019 and finished in third. The Marlborough, Conn. resident returned on Saturday for the 43rd running of the race and wasn’t going to be denied a win. Sanders, 36,...

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GREENFIELD — South Deerfield’s JoEllen Reino is going to need to add another shelf to her trophy case with the way she continues to dominate the Greenfield Triathlon. Reino, now 60 years old, has came out the winner in the women’s sprint race the last...

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Ben Johnston got to test his fishing skills against some of the best fisherman in the country. Johnston — who is going into his eighth grade year at Frontier Regional School —has been fishing the last six years and a few years ago, started attending...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The 2020 high school football season had a different feel to it. After all the season was pushed back from the fall to the spring due to COVID, with teams playing just a four game schedule with no postseason. It’s easy for the memory to brush past a...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The longest running triathlon in New England returns this weekend. The 39th running of the Greenfield Triathlon will kick off at 8 a.m. on Sunday at the Green River Swimming Area, with 230 athletes from all over the country registered as of Friday to...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

AMHERST — As the Massachusetts football team looks to take the next step this fall, the UMass defense is far ahead of where it was at this point last year according to defensive coordinator Keith Dudzinski. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. With a...

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TURNERS FALLS — Points were hard to come by in the championship game of the Franklin Tech Girls Summer Basketball League between Frontier and Franklin Tech on Thursday. That was until about two minutes left in the second overtime, however. The...

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GREENFIELD — Three champions were crowned in the DRIVE League at Greenfield High School on Monday. In the boys JV championship game to open the night Greenfield ran away with a 72-60 win over Hinsdale. In the men’s league championship game that...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

One unfortunate night in Springfield turned into a Hall of Fame career for Sonya Lamonakis. Lamonakis — who grew up in Turners Falls — was jumped when she was 28 while grabbing money from an ATM in Springfield. “I didn’t know how to defend myself,”...

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GREENFIELD — Caleb Thomas pitched like an ace for the Greenfield Post 81 Junior American Legion squad on Tuesday in its District 3 semifinal game against Belchertown Post 239. Thomas allowed one hit in the first inning but Belchertown didn’t get much...

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GREENFIELD — Connor Piecuch and Michael Bechard went into the 78th Invitational Four Ball at the Country Club of Greenfield with a firm game plan on how they would attack the course and take home the championship. That strategy of focusing on their...

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GREENFIELD — Rain has trounced the area this summer, and while the 78th Invitational Four-Ball at the Country Club of Greenfield had near-perfect weather during qualifying action on Thursday, Mother Nature made her presence felt during Friday’s first...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — It was a stress free Thursday for Dennis Booska and Cody Booska during the qualifying round of the 78th Invitational Four-Ball at the Country Club of Greenfield. But while their score didn’t really factor into the match play bracket, the...

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SOUTH DEERFIELD — The summer is all about working to get better, and the Frontier boys soccer team has been doing that by competing in the Pioneer Valley Summer Soccer League in preparation of the upcoming season. The Redhawks haven’t been beaten so...

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NORTHFIELD — Brian Campbell is walking into a great situation as the new athletic director at Pioneer Valley Regional School. Campbell — who was hired this summer to take over for Kerry Baird as the school’s AD — will take over an athletic department...