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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

NORTHFIELD — Basketball is a game of runs, as exemplified during Sunday’s Hampshire League South showdown between the Pioneer and Mahar boys basketball teams. It was the Panthers that struck first, going on a 14-2 run early to take a 16-6 lead into...

By JEFF LAJOIE

BUCKLAND – A year ago, Jake Mattson lost in the sectional final. Conner Hoffman didn’t even get a chance to compete.Those memories were distant on Saturday, as the Frontier Regional School seniors stood atop the podium in their respective weight...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Too many similarities to the previous night’s effort resigned the UMass hockey team to a second consecutive tie against Vermont on Saturday.The Minutemen took a three-goal lead with 12 minutes, 32 seconds remaining in the third period and squandered...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Another rerun.Just like at Fordham on Wednesday, the UMass men’s basketball team couldn’t hold a second-half lead Saturday at La Salle. The Explorers scored 53 points in the second half of an 86-72 victory over the Minutemen. That’s more points than...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Last winter, three Recorder area athletes took home Western Mass Division 3 individual wrestling championships while four others made it to their respective sectional championship matches. Two of those three winners have graduated, but all four...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The California transplant who bought the North Quabbin region’s only Gilded Age mansion in July 2020 is at odds with her town over requirements to open the structure she is trying to bring back to its former glory.Cynthia Butler has expressed...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – UMass men’s basketball 3.0 should drop soon.The Minutemen are discovering a new version of themselves for already the third time this season 24 games in ahead of Saturday’s visit to La Salle (2 p.m. ESPN-Plus). They’ve lost their last three...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s that time of year.Postseasons, both Western Mass. and statewide, are on the horizon, and local basketball and hockey teams are jockeying for position and/or a berth in the upcoming brackets.The regular season comes to an end on Feb. 18, though...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – The result finally caught up to the UMass hockey team’s process.Beating Providence on the road last Friday snapped a six-game losing streak, the Minutemen’s longest since 2018. UMass (10-13-3, 4-11-1 Hockey East) ascended a spot in the...

By HANNAH BEVIS

AMHERST — With less than 15 seconds on the clock Wednesday night, Ber’Nyah Mayo went in for a layup, sent Asiah Dingle flying to the floor and rose up for a floater. The ball seemed to hang in midair for a second longer than usual before it fell...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — Due to its association with the nation’s capitol, a Smithsonian exhibit, in some ways, may feel out of place in small-town Montague. In other ways, though, it feels just right.“This is about the small-town vibe,” said Caitlin Kelley,...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

SOUTH DEERFIELD – The Frontier girls basketball team has grown accustomed to close games as of late. After defeating Lenox on a buzzer beater last Wednesday, it came down to the final minute once again Monday in a Franklin County League North showdown...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Despite how long and how well she’s represented the UMass women’s basketball program, Sydney Taylor hasn’t run out of firsts yet.The senior from Long Island, N.Y., posted her first career double-double with 26 points and 10 rebounds in a 66-42 win at...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Davidson couldn’t be stopped in the second half of Saturday’s 93-78 victory over the UMass men’s basketball team. Not that the Minutemen provided the appropriate resistance.The Minutemen allowed a season-high 93 points. An opponent hadn’t...

By CHRIS LARABEE

While campaigning, one of Gov. Maura Healey’s climate priorities was to place a moratorium on commercial logging on state-owned forest land, a move that foresters and environmental advocates say would be detrimental to forest health, the state’s...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s a busy time to be Rebecca Rodgers.The 22-year-old Leyden native is in the midst of a busy stretch competing at the highest levels of the sport of curling. Rodgers, who now lives and trains in St. Paul, Minn., recently captured a bronze medal...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST –  The UMass hockey program’s panic meter hasn’t budged a inch.Despite losing six games in a row, their longest skid since late January and early February of 2018, the Minutemen believe they can turn around the season over the last month.“The...

By MARY BYRNE

Although public health officials aren’t seeing an abundance of cases locally, it is possible, experts say, for an individual to carry more than one respiratory illness at once.“Co-infections have become a growing concern in recent months in response...

By HANNAH BEVIS

AMHERST — It took a half to get their legs going, but once the UMass women’s basketball team found their rhythm against Richmond on Wednesday, the Minutewomen simply could not be stopped. UMass held off the Spiders in a 73-69 victory at the Mullins...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The road remained a hostile place for the UMass men’s basketball team in Atlantic 10 play.George Mason took down the Minutemen 70-59 in Fairfax, Va., on Wednesday. It dropped UMass (13-9, 4-6 A-10) to 0-5 away from the Mullins Center in league play...