Sports
Football: Franklin Tech clinches share of IL North title, Frontier falls to Lee
The Franklin Tech football team clinched at least a share of the Intercounty League North title on Friday. Hosting Mahar, the Eagles took a 28-8 lead at the half and didn’t look back, rolling to a 48-14 victory in Turners Falls. Franklin Tech (7-1,...
HS Roundup: Six Frontier field hockey players record goals to knock off Franklin Tech, 6-1, in Div. 4 Round of 32 (PHOTOS)
A four-goal second quarter was more than enough for the Frontier field hockey team, as the fourth-seeded Redhawks scored all of their goals before halftime en route to a 6-1 win over No. 29 Franklin Tech in the MIAA Division 4 Round of 32 on Friday in...
Bulletin Board: Registration for the annual Sawmill River 10K underway
Registration for the annual Sawmill River 10K has begun.The Sawmill Run is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025 in Montague Center. The road race will begin promptly at 10 a.m. near the Village Common on Main Street. Race Day registration will begin...
Class D boys soccer: Alex McClelland records hat trick, Judah Glenn tallies twice as Pioneer wins first Western Mass. title following 5-1 win over Monson (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
CHICOPEE — The Monson boys soccer team had no answer for Pioneer’s speed up top in the Western Mass. Class D championship game on Friday at Chicopee Comp High School. The strategy was simple for the top-seeded Panthers in the first half: send the ball...
UMass football: Minutemen need to rise to the occasion to compete with Mississippi State
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — If there was ever a time for the UMass football team to do the improbable, it feels like Saturday would be that time.The Minutemen have struggled to win games in 2024, and although their two wins – the second coming last weekend – are both...
Keeping Score with Chip Ainsworth: The Fall Classic is over in a flash
Good morning!That sound coming from the Bronx on Wednesday night was a foggy mountain breakdown. After avoiding a sweep the previous night and outscoring the Dodgers 16-4 over parts of two games, the wheels came off the World Series Express.The...
HS Roundup: Greenfield volleyball upsets Keefe Tech, 3-2, in MIAA Div. 5 prelims
The Greenfield volleyball team kept its season alive on Thursday. The 37th-seeded Green Wave went on the road to take on 28th-seeded Keefe Tech in the preliminary round of the MIAA Div. 5 state tournament Thursday, and upset-minded Greenfield refused...
UMass hockey: Minutemen head to Springfield to face AIC Saturday
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
The UMass hockey team is making its shortest road trip of the season on Saturday. After a foray into Hockey East action this past weekend — where the Minutemen walked away with a shootout win and a loss against UConn — UMass will make the short trip...
League title races, state playoff spots on the line in final regular season week of high school football season
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
A lot is at stake in the Intercounty League North during the final week of the MIAA high school football regular season. In the North on Friday, Athol travels to Greenfield to face the Green Wave and Franklin Tech plays host to Mahar. On Saturday,...
Judge rules Pioneer scores count toward postseason soccer seeding
By THOMAS JOHNSTON and CHRIS LARABEE
The Pioneer Regional School District’s boys and girls athletic teams will have the scores of their Western Mass Tournament games recorded as played and accurately count towards their state tournament ranking under a court ruling Thursday. Pioneer was...
Local roundup: Zephyr Jetzon tallies twice as Greenfield girls soccer beats McCann Tech in regular season finale
A pair of goals from Zephyr Jetzon helped the Greenfield girls soccer team close out its regular season schedule in style.The Green Wave scored twice in the second half and edged McCann Tech, 3-2, in a non-playoff consolation game on...
Court rules against MIAA in forfeiture controversy that impacts several area schools
By JEFF LAJOIE
Field hockey and girls volleyball brackets were released for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association state tournaments on Wednesday, but not without some changes after Hampden County Superior Court Judge Tracy E. Duncan upheld her...
High schools: Franklin Tech field hockey battles, falls in OT to Blackstone Valley in state vocational final
The Franklin Tech field hockey team gave Blackstone Valley Tech all it could handle in the title game of the MVADA Small School finals on the road in Upton Tuesday.It was a defensive battle throughout, as neither the Eagle or Beaver defense...
Class D boys soccer: Pioneer outlasts Smith Academy 2-1 in semis, punches title-game ticket (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — After the Pioneer and Smith Academy boys soccer teams played twice in the regular season — and the Panthers won the second game just 1-0, the expectation was for a tough, low-scoring affair on Tuesday when the two Schmid League foes met...
MIAA field hockey, volleyball brackets delayed due to court injunction
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Volleyball and field hockey teams will need to wait at least another day before finding out their seeds and opponents in the upcoming MIAA state tournament. The volleyball and field hockey brackets were supposed to be released on Tuesday, but after...
UMass football: Minutemen hope confidence from Wagner win carries into Mississippi State game
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Win No. 2 was on the menu for the UMass football team last Saturday afternoon at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. The Minutemen defeated Wagner 35-7 to improve to 2-6 – both victories coming against FCS opponents.Just as UMass does following every...
HS Roundup: Smith Vocational girls soccer defeats Greenfield, 1-0, in Class C quarterfinals
The Greenfield girls soccer team was unable to get its offense going against fifth-seeded Smith Vocational in the quarterfinals of the Western Mass. Class C tournament on Monday. The Viking defense held down the fourth-seeded Green Wave offense,...
Bulletin Board: Suburban Amateur Football League playoffs begin
Gavin Keene ran in a touchdown to open the game before Brock Puchalski ran in three scores, leading the Franklin County Bulldogs to a 28-7 Suburban Amateur Football League PeeWee Division playoff win over Palmer over the weekend. Jace Brunelle, Kent...
Field hockey: Frontier knocks off Greenfield, 2-0, to win third-straight Western Mass. championship (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
HOLYOKE — The Frontier field hockey team is making a habit of collecting Western Mass. championship trophies. For the third year in a row, the two-time defending champion Redhawks squared off with Greenfield in the Western Mass. Class C title on...
High schools: Pioneer girls edged by Hopkins, Pioneer boys advance to Class D semis
By GARRETT COTE
HADLEY – Pioneer girls soccer head coach Matt Killeen had no choice but to implement a new strategy for his Panthers team during Friday’s practice.Killeen and Co. — ranked seventh in Western Mass. Class D — had just found out their first-round matchup...
Your Daily Puzzles
An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."
A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.
Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.
Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.
Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.