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By CARLA CHARTER

ORANGE-For his many years of advocacy of sportsmen’s issues, Mike Roche has received the Words of Wisdom Award from the Worcester County League of Sportsmen’s Clubs.Roche received the award at the club’s annual banquet on March 23, held at the...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE – It seems Billy Goat Boats isn’t going anywhere, as the town’s Selectboard opted this week to award a request for proposal to the family-run watercraft rental business following a public and contentious leasing fiasco.The company owned and...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Heartbreak struck the UMass men’s basketball team for the second time in three games on Tuesday night at the Mullins Center.Clinging to a one-point lead with 12.5 seconds left after Rahsool Diggins’ acrobatic layup put the Minutemen ahead,...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Mahar School Committee voted this month to name the football field concession stand after longtime varsity girls basketball coach and Booster Club member Larry Fisher.Booster Club President Charles “Joey” Verheyen approached the committee...

By HANNAH BEVIS

There’s a lot going right for the UMass men’s ice hockey team in the first half of the season. The Minutemen (9-3-1) currently sit No. 10 in both the USCHO and USA Hockey/The Rink national polls, and are riding a three-game win streak going into...

By HANNAH BEVIS

UMass hockey head coach Greg Carvel has often talked about how this year’s team feels special so far this season. Last weekend’s series wasn’t the first time they showed it, but it was an exclamation point of a series sweep that showed the rest of the...

By HANNAH BEVIS

As the UMass football team gets closer to its first game against New Mexico State on Aug. 26, the team is looking sharper in practice. It is still practice, after all, and it’s hard to know how the Minutemen will shape up against any of their...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Fresh off proving people wrong at UMass, recent graduate Destiney Philoxy picked up right where she left off with Team Rwanda in the most recent AfroBasket tournament. Philoxy, whose mother and grandmother were both born in Rwanda, was invited to try...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — The Commonwealth invoked John Calipari when the news came out Friday morning.UMass’ alumni team will no longer face The Rhody Way, a group of Rhode Island alums, in the first round of The Basketball Tournament after Rhody withdrew “due to...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Freddie Riley never got to utilize the Champions Center while he was at UMass. The school broke ground on the basketball program’s dedicated practice facility the year he graduated in 2013 and completed it in 2015.“Not jealous. I mean,...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

AMHERST — There’s a refrain repeated often in hockey dressing rooms and on the bench — control what you can control. For the UMass women’s club hockey team, what will define their offseason (and potentially their next season) is the uncontrollable.The...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The transfer portal forced a dramatic turnover of the UMass hockey team’s roster for the third season in a row. Nine players that could have returned to the program left, which altered the makeup of the Minutemen’s incoming class. Greg Carvel and his...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Multiple members of the UMass program were selected for the third NHL Draft in a row during Day 2 of the 2023 edition in Nashville.Incoming UMass freshman goalkeeper Michael Hrabal became the program’s highest draft pick since Cale Makar when the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Michael Hrabal stands comfortably taller than any other big time goalie prospect in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft.The 6-foot, 6.2-inch UMass commit that will join the Minutemen this fall as the centerpiece and linchpin of a large and talented recruiting...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The shifting seas of the UMass men’s basketball roster may finally be calm.After big man Wildens Leveque entered the transfer portal late in the process in mid June, the Minutemen filled the roster spot by adding freshman Tarique Foster on...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The transfer portal snatched up one more Minuteman.Big man Wildens Leveque will leave the UMass men’s basketball program after just one season and enter the portal as a graduate transfer, the Brockton native confirmed on Twitter. He played three...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The Hixon household better have room for two hall of famers.Longtime UMass diving coach Mandy Hixon will be a part of the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2023, the school announced Monday. Her husband Dave Hixon, the Amherst College men’s...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Relationship building begets the UMass men’s basketball program coach Frank Martin wants it to become. He’s bringing in six freshmen during a national enthrallment with the transfer portal because he’s gotten to know them since he was hired....

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Another former UMass women’s basketball player has committed to a new school for next season. Makennah White announced via her Instagram she has committed to play at Seton Hall for the 2023-24 season. Seton Hall plays in the Big East, and finished the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Another former Minuteman is headed to the Power 5.Former UMass men’s basketball forward Tafara Gapare announced his commitment to Georgia Tech on Tuesday. The former four-star recruit originally pledged to DePaul as a member of the Class of 2023...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Frank Martin coached his first season as the UMass men’s basketball coach without a fully executed contract, according to documents obtained Wednesday.The Daily Hampshire Gazette requested Martin’s contract last April after he was hired in late March,...