Football: Frontier closes its season with 30-6 win over Mahar (PHOTOS)

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

ORANGE — It was exactly the way Frontier football coach Scott Dredge hoped to close out the season. Though it might not have been the season the Redhawks hoped for, Frontier got healthy down the stretch and earned a 38-12 win against Pathfinder last...

Cross Country: Frontier, Mohawk Trail and Greenfield represented at Div. 3 State Meet

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Three local cross country teams will get to test themselves against the best in the state on Saturday. The Mohawk Trail girls, Frontier boys and Frontier girls cross country teams qualified for the MIAA Division 3 Championships, which is slated for...

UMass football: Kaidon Salter, Liberty come to town as Minutemen enter home stretch of 2024 season

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The UMass football team has two more opportunities in its last three contests to salvage something this season, the first coming on Saturday afternoon when the Minutemen host Liberty for a noon kickoff at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.Through nine...

Keeping Score with Chip Ainsworth: Will the Minutemen make another coaching move?

Good morning!Speculation has begun that Don Brown will be relieved of his coaching duties in two weeks. By then UMass will have lost its final three games — to Liberty, Georgia and UConn — and Brown will have won six games in three seasons. It stands...

Football: Athol knocks off SICS, Greenfield falls to Easthampton

The Athol football team got a confidence boost before its Thanksgiving showdown against Mahar. Hosting Springfield International in the Bears’ final non-playoff game of the season on Thursday, Sawyer Lefsyk ran in a trio of touchdowns to lift Athol to...

Boys soccer: Gus Radner’s late goal sends Frontier to D4 semis following 1-0 win over Tynsborough

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

TYNGSBOROUGH — The 14th-seeded Frontier boys soccer team never felt like the underdog during its MIAA Div. 4 quarterfinal contest against sixth-seeded Tyngsborough on Thursday night. The Redhawks came out and looked like the dominant team through 40...

UMass field hockey looking to take down UConn in NCAA tourney opener

By RYAN AMES

For the first time since 2016, the UMass field hockey team is going dancing.The Minutewomen earned at at-large bid into this year’s NCAA Tournament as one of the 18 best teams in the country. UMass drew a familiar foe in its first tournament game in...

Roundup: NMH boys soccer falls to Taft in shootout during NEPSAC Class A quarterfinals

There wasn’t much separating third-seeded Taft School and sixth-seeded Northfield Mount Hermon in the quarterfinals of the 2024 NEPSAC Class A boys soccer tournament on Wednesday. Taft opened the scoring but NMH responded with a goal just before the...

UMass basketball: Poor shooting plagues Minutemen in 76-66 loss to Louisiana Tech

By GARRETT COTE

After being down as many as 19 points in the early stages of the second half, the UMass men’s basketball team cut the Louisiana Tech lead to just five with 2 minutes, 12 seconds following an Akil Watson layup in transition – capping off a 12-2 spurt...

UMass hockey: Minutemen look to rebound with pair of Hockey East games against Providence

By RYAN AMES

The UMass hockey team will look to get back on track with a weekend home-and-home against No. 10 Providence, starting Thursday at the Mullins Center.The Minutemen went winless in Vermont last weekend, which dropped them out of the USCHO national...

Boys soccer: After upset win over Pittsfield, Frontier prepares for D4 quarterfinal contest against Tyngsborough

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

The Frontier boys soccer team is one win away from making it back to the MIAA Division 4 Final Four. The Redhawks have been knocking on the door of a state championship since the new statewide tournament format went into place in 2021, reaching the...

PHOTOS: Greenfield’s MacKenzie Paulin signs National Letter of Intent to play softball at Merrimack College next fall

Field hockey: Uxbridge knocks off Frontier, 5-0, in Div. 4 semifinals (PHOTOS)

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

AGAWAM — The three-time defending MIAA Div. 4 field hockey state champions weren’t ready to relinquish their crown on Tuesday. Fourth-seeded Frontier took on top-seeded Uxbridge in the Div. 4 semifinals at Agawam High School and the Spartans quickly...

Bulletin Board: Racquel Provost, Assumption field hockey win NE-10 title to reach NCAA tournament

Racquel Provost and the Assumption field hockey team are headed to the NCAA Div. II tournament. The Greyhounds faced Saint Anselm in the Northeast-10 Championship game on Sunday in Worcester, with Assumption walking away with a 3-0 victory to earn an...

Field hockey: Three-time defending champion Uxbridge up next as Frontier looks to continue historic state tourney run

By JEFF LAJOIE

The challenge is substantial, but the Frontier field hockey team is ready.Three-time defending state champion Uxbridge stands in the way of the fourth-seeded Redhawks and a spot in the MIAA Division 4 championship game. Frontier and the top-seeded...

UMass football: Minutemen QB Taisun Phommachanh out for the season due to injuries

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — UMass football head coach Don Brown confirmed Monday that Minutemen starting quarterback Taisun Phommachanh will miss the remainder of the season after suffering an injury against Mississippi State on Nov. 2.UMass had a bye this past...

UMass athletics: Minutewomen fall in A-10 women’s soccer, field hockey finals

By RYAN AMES

Locked in a 1-1 game, the UMass women’s soccer team allowed two goals in the final 20 minutes of regulation as top-seeded Saint Louis scored a 3-1 victory to capture the Atlantic-10 Conference championship on Sunday in Saint Louis.The Billikens scored...

Local roundup: Super weekend as Frontier Youth Football, Franklin County Bulldogs both have teams win SAFL Div. 2 Super Bowls

It was a Super weekend for three Franklin County youth football teams.The Suburban Amateur Football League held its Division 2 Super Bowls at Agawam High School on Saturday, and three local teams hoisted trophies after winning their respective...

Boys soccer: Jack Cusson’s PK save lifts Frontier past Pittsfield, into Div. 4 quarterfinals

By JESSE KOLODKIN

PITTSFIELD – To win big, you need players – rookies and veterans – to step up.Tied after full time and two overtime periods, Saturday’s MIAA Division 4 Boys Soccer Round of 16 game at Berkshire Community College went to best-of-five penalty kicks.Both...

Cross country: Frontier, Mohawk Trail secure state championship berths thanks to strong showings at MIAA Division 3 qualifier

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

It was a big day for the Frontier and Mohawk Trail cross country teams at the MIAA Division 3 state qualifying meet at Wrentham Development Center.There were six heats during Saturday’s race – three boys heats and three girls heats — and the top seven...