Sports
Keeping Score: Springfield’s golfing scandal
Good morning!Three years ago on Dec. 19, 2019, golf pro Kevin M. Kennedy was indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield on over a dozen charges including fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.Kennedy was the head pro of Springfield’s two...
Bulletin Board: Frontier girls 5/6 Suburban squad takes home league title
The Frontier girls basketball 5/6 grade Suburban squad closed out its season on a high note on Sunday, defeating Hampshire 33-29 to win the Div. 2 championship. Frontier closed out its season with an 18-1 record. Sadie Nichols led the way with 13...
Bulletin Board: Frontier 5/6 Suburban takes home championship, completes perfect season
The Frontier boys 5-6 grade Suburban basketball team closed out an unbeaten season on Sunday, defeating Greenfield 51-35 to take home the championship and close out its season with an 18-0 record. Kimie Taylor led the way with 15 points in the win,...
Bulletin board: Grayson Thomas scores 30 points to help Greenfield win Suburban League title
Buoyed by a red-hot shooting performance from Grayson Thomas, Greenfield took home a title on Saturday.Second-seeded Greenfield received a game-high 30 points from Thomas, including a six-pack of 3-pointers, as the squad captured a 66-62 win over No....
Women’s basketball: Transylvania holds off Smith College in D3 Final Four, 76-65 (PHOTOS)
By HANNAH BEVIS
HARTFORD, Conn. – With 1 minute, 13 seconds remaining in the game, the Smith College basketball team was down but not out. Trailing 72-65, the Pioneers were starting to see some momentum swing their way. Ally Yamada and Jane Loo hit a pair of triples...
IAABO Senior All Star games takes place at Smith Academy
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
HATFIELD — The top senior basketball players in Franklin and Hampshire County got together at Smith Academy on Friday for the 23rd IAABO Board 28 Senior All Star Game. The girls game kicked off first, and unlike most All Star games, both teams were...
Bulletin Board: Taylor, Rose roll high single in Sunday Scotch Doubles
Lisa Taylor and Keith Rose rolled the high single score of 113 while John Herron and Beth Wiles had the high triple of 293 in Sunday Scotch Doubles at the Shelburne Falls Bowling Alley this past week. Missy Finn rolled the women’s high single (109)...
How Smith College basketball built a D3 Final Four contender
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
The line wrapped around Smith College’s Indoor Track & Tennis complex an hour before tipoff. Smith athletic director Kristen Hughes’ phone lit up with a text, “It’s like a Rihanna concert out here.”Ainsworth Gymnasium holds roughly 500 people, and the...
Frozen Four: Hockey keeps bringing Hadley’s Lisa Ito-Bagshaw back to the Pioneer Valley
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Hockey drew Lisa Ito-Bagshaw to the Pioneer Valley initially. It keeps bringing her back, too.The nomad who grew up across Canada and in California came to Deerfield Academy with her sister Sara to play hockey. Her parents moved to Hadley to stay...
On the Ridge: Spring events nearing
You wouldn’t believe it by looking outside, but the first day of spring is less than a week away. For sportsmen and women, and those who just love the outdoors, there are a ton of things going on right now all around us, including late season...
Fit to play with Jim Johnson: More is not better
For everything that is good, there is probably a limit on how much is beneficial. This is certainly true for exercise. The benefits of exercise are unequivocal, but too much exercise can hurt us. Exercise places a stress on the body that results in...
Boys basketball: Young Pioneer was ahead of schedule, now stakes go up
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — Maynard boys basketball coach Paul Howes watched his team win a state championship last year and follow that up with a trip (so far) to the semis this winter. After defeating Pioneer 45-32 on Friday at Messer Gymnasium in the...
Bulletin board: Frontier’s Evan Hedlund shines at Indoor Nationals
Frontier’s Evan Hedlund showed well against the top middle school runners in the country on Friday. Competing in the mile at the Nike Indoor Track Nationals at The Armory in New York City, Hedlund finished the mile in a time of 4 minutes, 43 seconds,...
Women’s hockey: Explosive third period pushes Amherst College past Colby, into D3 Frozen Four
By HANNAH BEVIS
AMHERST – Forty minutes into the NCAA Division 3 women’s hockey quarterfinal between Amherst College and Colby, both sides were a little on edge. The first two periods had been a goaltender’s duel, with Amherst’s Natalie Stott and Colby’s Paige...
Boys basketball: Maynard defeats Pioneer, 45-32, to advance to Div. 5 semis (PHOTOS)
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
NORTHFIELD — To say it was a rock fight at Messer Gymnasium on Friday would be an understatement.With a spot in the MIAA Div. 5 semifinals on the line, neither the Pioneer or Maynard boys basketball teams were giving an inch on the defensive end of...
Greenfield School Committee home school policy revised to allow extracurricular participation
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD – Parents, coaches, teammates and members of the community went to bat Wednesday night for homeschool students who – since a policy change last year – haven’t technically been eligible to participate in extracurricular activities at...
Boys basketball: Season reaches a fever pitch as Pioneer preps to host Maynard in Round of 8
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
And then there was one. As the MIAA state tournaments enter the Round of 8, one Recorder area school remains standing. The Pioneer boys basketball team got one of its toughest tests of the season on Tuesday in a MIAA Div. 5 Round of 16 contest against...
Women’s basketball: Greenfield’s Sam Smith has Babson College in Div. 3 Sweet 16
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Sam Smith is looking to close out her senior season with a bang. The Greenfield High School alum has the Babson women’s basketball team on the brink of making program history. The Beavers locked up a spot in the NCAA Div. 3 tournament following a 23-5...
Frontier eighth grader Evan Hedlund set to compete in Nike Indoor Track Nationals
By THOMAS JOHNSTON
Frontier’s Evan Hedlund has only been competing in the mile for a short period of time, but you’d never know it by how fast he can run it. Hedlund — just an eighth grader — specializes in running the 2-mile, but decided to give the mile a try during...
Boys basketball: Pioneer holds off KIPP Academy, surges into MIAA Division 5 quarterfinals (PHOTOS)
By GEORGE MILLER
NORTHFIELD — Tuesday night's last four minutes barely sufficed to contain the high tournament drama squeezed into that narrow space.Pioneer built a nine-point lead early in the fourth quarter, lost it to KIPP Academy, grabbed it back and needed two...
