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Lenox's Bailey Patella ready for senior year as a captain for University of Vermont men's basketball
It’s going to be a new look University of Vermont men’s basketball team, whenever the 2020-21 season kicks off. That’s something that Lenox’s …
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GREAT BARRINGTON — In the season finale at Wyantenuck Country Club on Tuesday, Mount Greylock managed to squeak out a three-stroke victory ove…
LENOX — Following up on the success of the virtual Josh Billings RunAground, race director Patty Spector has teamed up with Big Elm Brew Brewi…
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There is still a lot Pat Duquette does not know about the 2020-21 college basketball season. One thing the University of Massachusetts-Lowell …
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The ultimate goal for high school football, in a normal season, is to play for a state championship at Gillette Stadium. The Massachusetts Hig…
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Last winter, the Wahconah co-op hockey team made it to the Western Massachusetts Division III-A championship game. The team, which co-ops with…
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GREAT BARRINGTON — It might have been Pat McLaughlin’s 15th birthday, but it was the Wahconah golfer who gave his team a gift.
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Lenox's Bailey Patella ready for senior year as a captain for University of Vermont men's basketball
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Wahconah's McLaughlin is medalist; Wahconah, Greylock tie in county golf championship
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High School football coaches group has new schedule plan
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Wahconah's co-op hockey team won't hit the ice in 2020-21 school year
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Kennedy Park Challenge a free event to test mental, physical fortitude
GREAT BARRINGTON — It only took 10 boys runners to decide the meet between Monument Mountain and visiting Mount Greylock, and a trio of Sparta…
GREENFIELD — Max DiGrigoli didn’t have a high school golf season this fall. But that didn’t keep the Lenox golfer from being successful.
When Mike Deep purchased the Waubeeka Golf Links in 2013, at a time when golf was in an economic downturn, many people thought he was making a…
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The Division of Ecological Restoration (DER) restores rivers, wetlands and watersheds for the benefit of people and the environment. Its proje…
Running can be therapeutic. So too, can competition.
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The NCAA has given good news to athletes like Williams hockey players Niko Karamanis and Meghan Halloran, MCLA basketball players like Mike De…
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It is back to work for Walt Bell and his University of Massachusetts football coaching staff. For the Minutemen players, not so much.
DALTON — It felt good to be home for Wahconah on Wednesday night.
A school year unlike any other could be taking another twist for Berkshire County, and Massachusetts high school athletes.
University of Massachusetts men’s basketball coach Matt McCall finds himself in pretty rarefied air this week. McCall, now in his fourth season in Amherst, is listed by The Athletic as one of college basketball’s 40 under 40.
When Matt Karpowicz graduated from Williams College in June, he did not have a job lined up.
WILLIAMSTOWN — Alex Axt was medalist for the fourth consecutive match as Mount Greylock beat Lenox 181-205 on Senior Day, Monday.
Bobby Kinne had a pretty good seat as the Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series on Saturday night. He was inside the Rays’ replay room at Petco Park.
Runners from Lenox High School, who would normally be competing in their fall cross-country season, joined around 400 others from across Massachusetts in a race on Sunday.
In a fall season where only half of the county’s high schools are playing golf as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, The Country Club of Pittsfield has stepped up to the tee to provide both great competition and a Halloween Day treat for junior golfers.
When the members of the University of Massachusetts football program walked off the field in Statesboro, Ga., Saturday night, they did not know if they would get a chance to play another game. That answer came Monday, and while it won't be for another 19 days, it will be happening.
In the aftermath of what could be one of several games — or one of one — University of Massachusetts football coach Walt Bell will have a lot to look at and evaluate. That’s kind of what this “free” football season could end up doing for the Minutemen.
WILLIAMSTOWN — For an hour over the weekend, hybrid schooling schedules, a lost spring and bizarre summer faded to the background and smiles shot to the forefront on the cross-country course at Mount Greylock.
Kickoff returns, at least in the National Football League, are on the verge of becoming extinct, what with kickers regularly booming the ball into — or out of the end zone.
The University of Massachusetts will be appealing a ruling by the NCAA that could erase 59 wins from men’s basketball and an Atlantic 10 Conference women’s tennis title.
Ultimately, football games are judged by the stat sheet and the scoreboard. Judging by both, it was a rough opening day for the University of Massachusetts.
Snowmobiles weren’t very popular some 55 years ago, but a young Jim Wilkinson thought they looked like fun.
The voice at the other end of the telephone laughed after the question was asked. After all, Dave O’Brien still hasn’t seen a sporting event from inside a press box.
Readers may remember an article I ran on May 23, 2020 about Bill Hollister of Valatie, N.Y. and his rare feat of bagging a tom turkey in New York State in 2018 with rare triple spurs. A bird with triple spurs is almost unheard of, as there are only two reports of birds with triple spurs — on…
Less than a month ago, the members of the University of Massachusetts football program had little to look forward to in the fall. Not having a schedule will do that.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Cooper Rothvoss shot a 44 to earn medalist honors and the Mount Everett golf team notched its first win of 2020 with a 186-191 win over Lee on Thursday.
If you are a sports fan, Berkshire County may be as good a place as any to live in the next several years. That’s because, no matter which way you turn, you will be able to attend NCAA Division I tournament events.
UMass football coach Walt Bell takes his Minutemen into South Georgia for their season opener against Georgia Southern. UMass’ opponent has already played three games.
On the calendar, the high school basketball season is still more than a month away. That doesn’t mean plans aren’t being put together for the potential of a winter season.
To say that the 2020 college football season has been unlike any other could be a massive understatement. Just ask Georgia Southern football coach Chad Lunsford.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Led by Ben Ryel and Bradley Danyluk, the Monument Mountain golf team earned a resounding victory at home over Mount Everett, 166-203.
There are three names at the quarterback position on the University of Massachusetts football depth chart. As of midweek, head coach Walt Bell isn’t ready to publicly commit to one.
If the Lenox girls and Mount Greylock boys are successful in defending their MIAA state Nordic skiing championships in 2021, they’ll do it in a different location.
Changes in college football coaching staffs are like clockwork, coming regularly.
Pittsfield’s Jaden Keefner is looking to follow in the footsteps of a number of Pittsfield and Berkshire County football players as he tries to take a leap from prep school to college football.
Two prominent Berkshire School hockey alumni have signed new contracts with National Hockey League teams.
The Valley Storm 14U softball team won its first two games of the weekend before dropping the backend of a doubleheader against the Western Mass. Heat on Sunday.
DALTON — With one week of a unique cross-country season under their belts, some of Berkshire County's top runners tested their mettle on Warrior Hill at Wahconah on Saturday.
Grateful golfers from Mount Greylock, Wahconah, Mount Everett, Monument Mountain compete at Waubeeka
WILLIAMSTOWN — It was a good day to be a golfer from Mount Greylock or Wahconah. It was a great day, just to be a golfer.
Duncan Robinson and the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Friday night. That forced last night’s Game 6.
Berkshire Lacrosse Club competes in Connecticut
Eagle golf columnist Richard Lord has had the opportunity to sum up the golf career of the late Tom Sullivan better than I ever could.
Futures League commissioner Joe Paolucci just guided his league through a truncated 10th-anniversary season. Having done that, the commissioner is excited about the future.
“Taconic Trail” is the name of Route 2 as it passes up and over Petersburg Pass. Another way to get over the Taconic Mountains was Berlin Mountain Road (sometimes known as Bee Hill and sometimes as Torrey Woods roads), which was designated in 1799 as the Williamstown Turnpike, a segment of t…
In his Oct. 1 report to the Berkshire County League of Sportsmen, (BCLS) DFW Western District supervisor Andrew Madden reported that the preliminary harvest figure for the September bear hunting season, which ended on Sept. 26, was approximately 233 bears.
The University of Massachusetts will, in fact, play football this fall.
The New England Small College Athletic Conference has voted unanimously to cancel NESCAC conference competition for the winter season, while Williams College moved to pull the plug on winter sports in their entirety.
The Boston Bruins drafted a player Wednesday night who has ties to Adams.
Andrew Brito made his Divison I-FBS debut in “garbage” time of the University of Massachusetts’ season-opening 2019 loss at Rutgers.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Country Club of Pittsfield head professional Eric Mabee did not get to play as much competitive golf this season as he might have liked. In the final Northeastern New York PGA event of the season, Mabee made this one count.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Eric Mabee, the head professional at the Country Club of Pittsfield, is in a three-way tie for the lead at the Northeastern New York PGA Section pro championship.
PITTSFIELD — Just over a year ago, Williams College graduates Sam Goldenring and Will Kannegieser were in a playoff at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball qualifier at the Springfield Country Club.
It wasn’t a game, but a fully-padded scrimmage was the next best thing for the University of Massachusetts football team.
PITTSFIELD — It was getting dark, and when Steve Sykes lined up his par putt on the second playoff hole, it could have cost his team a shot at the co-championship in the Berkshire Hills Country Club Fall Classic.
The fallout from the proposed realignment of Minor League Baseball could have an effect on North Adams and Pittsfield.
Chris Conroy is biding his time in Tampa, Fla., as he gets ready for his next assignment in what has been a baseball season to remember.
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The NCAA has given good news to athletes like Williams hockey players Niko Karamanis and Meghan Halloran, MCLA basketball players like Mike DeMartinis or Peyton Steinman and Grace Guachione of Saint Anselm. They, along with every other winter sports athlete in the nation, will receive anothe…
It is back to work for Walt Bell and his University of Massachusetts football coaching staff. For the Minutemen players, not so much.
DALTON — It felt good to be home for Wahconah on Wednesday night.
A school year unlike any other could be taking another twist for Berkshire County, and Massachusetts high school athletes.
University of Massachusetts men’s basketball coach Matt McCall finds himself in pretty rarefied air this week. McCall, now in his fourth season in Amherst, is listed by The Athletic as one of college basketball’s 40 under 40.
When Matt Karpowicz graduated from Williams College in June, he did not have a job lined up.
WILLIAMSTOWN — Alex Axt was medalist for the fourth consecutive match as Mount Greylock beat Lenox 181-205 on Senior Day, Monday.
Bobby Kinne had a pretty good seat as the Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series on Saturday night. He was inside the Rays’ replay room at Petco Park.
Runners from Lenox High School, who would normally be competing in their fall cross-country season, joined around 400 others from across Massachusetts in a race on Sunday.
In a fall season where only half of the county’s high schools are playing golf as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, The Country Club of Pittsfield has stepped up to the tee to provide both great competition and a Halloween Day treat for junior golfers.
When the members of the University of Massachusetts football program walked off the field in Statesboro, Ga., Saturday night, they did not know if they would get a chance to play another game. That answer came Monday, and while it won't be for another 19 days, it will be happening.
In the aftermath of what could be one of several games — or one of one — University of Massachusetts football coach Walt Bell will have a lot to look at and evaluate. That’s kind of what this “free” football season could end up doing for the Minutemen.
WILLIAMSTOWN — For an hour over the weekend, hybrid schooling schedules, a lost spring and bizarre summer faded to the background and smiles shot to the forefront on the cross-country course at Mount Greylock.
Kickoff returns, at least in the National Football League, are on the verge of becoming extinct, what with kickers regularly booming the ball into — or out of the end zone.
The University of Massachusetts will be appealing a ruling by the NCAA that could erase 59 wins from men’s basketball and an Atlantic 10 Conference women’s tennis title.
Ultimately, football games are judged by the stat sheet and the scoreboard. Judging by both, it was a rough opening day for the University of Massachusetts.
Snowmobiles weren’t very popular some 55 years ago, but a young Jim Wilkinson thought they looked like fun.
The voice at the other end of the telephone laughed after the question was asked. After all, Dave O’Brien still hasn’t seen a sporting event from inside a press box.
Readers may remember an article I ran on May 23, 2020 about Bill Hollister of Valatie, N.Y. and his rare feat of bagging a tom turkey in New York State in 2018 with rare triple spurs. A bird with triple spurs is almost unheard of, as there are only two reports of birds with triple spurs — on…
Less than a month ago, the members of the University of Massachusetts football program had little to look forward to in the fall. Not having a schedule will do that.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Cooper Rothvoss shot a 44 to earn medalist honors and the Mount Everett golf team notched its first win of 2020 with a 186-191 win over Lee on Thursday.
If you are a sports fan, Berkshire County may be as good a place as any to live in the next several years. That’s because, no matter which way you turn, you will be able to attend NCAA Division I tournament events.
UMass football coach Walt Bell takes his Minutemen into South Georgia for their season opener against Georgia Southern. UMass’ opponent has already played three games.
On the calendar, the high school basketball season is still more than a month away. That doesn’t mean plans aren’t being put together for the potential of a winter season.
To say that the 2020 college football season has been unlike any other could be a massive understatement. Just ask Georgia Southern football coach Chad Lunsford.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Led by Ben Ryel and Bradley Danyluk, the Monument Mountain golf team earned a resounding victory at home over Mount Everett, 166-203.
There are three names at the quarterback position on the University of Massachusetts football depth chart. As of midweek, head coach Walt Bell isn’t ready to publicly commit to one.
If the Lenox girls and Mount Greylock boys are successful in defending their MIAA state Nordic skiing championships in 2021, they’ll do it in a different location.
Changes in college football coaching staffs are like clockwork, coming regularly.
Pittsfield’s Jaden Keefner is looking to follow in the footsteps of a number of Pittsfield and Berkshire County football players as he tries to take a leap from prep school to college football.
Two prominent Berkshire School hockey alumni have signed new contracts with National Hockey League teams.
The Valley Storm 14U softball team won its first two games of the weekend before dropping the backend of a doubleheader against the Western Mass. Heat on Sunday.
DALTON — With one week of a unique cross-country season under their belts, some of Berkshire County's top runners tested their mettle on Warrior Hill at Wahconah on Saturday.
Grateful golfers from Mount Greylock, Wahconah, Mount Everett, Monument Mountain compete at Waubeeka
WILLIAMSTOWN — It was a good day to be a golfer from Mount Greylock or Wahconah. It was a great day, just to be a golfer.
Duncan Robinson and the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Friday night. That forced last night’s Game 6.
Berkshire Lacrosse Club competes in Connecticut
Eagle golf columnist Richard Lord has had the opportunity to sum up the golf career of the late Tom Sullivan better than I ever could.
Futures League commissioner Joe Paolucci just guided his league through a truncated 10th-anniversary season. Having done that, the commissioner is excited about the future.
“Taconic Trail” is the name of Route 2 as it passes up and over Petersburg Pass. Another way to get over the Taconic Mountains was Berlin Mountain Road (sometimes known as Bee Hill and sometimes as Torrey Woods roads), which was designated in 1799 as the Williamstown Turnpike, a segment of t…
In his Oct. 1 report to the Berkshire County League of Sportsmen, (BCLS) DFW Western District supervisor Andrew Madden reported that the preliminary harvest figure for the September bear hunting season, which ended on Sept. 26, was approximately 233 bears.
The University of Massachusetts will, in fact, play football this fall.
The New England Small College Athletic Conference has voted unanimously to cancel NESCAC conference competition for the winter season, while Williams College moved to pull the plug on winter sports in their entirety.
The Boston Bruins drafted a player Wednesday night who has ties to Adams.
Andrew Brito made his Divison I-FBS debut in “garbage” time of the University of Massachusetts’ season-opening 2019 loss at Rutgers.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Country Club of Pittsfield head professional Eric Mabee did not get to play as much competitive golf this season as he might have liked. In the final Northeastern New York PGA event of the season, Mabee made this one count.
GREAT BARRINGTON — Eric Mabee, the head professional at the Country Club of Pittsfield, is in a three-way tie for the lead at the Northeastern New York PGA Section pro championship.
PITTSFIELD — Just over a year ago, Williams College graduates Sam Goldenring and Will Kannegieser were in a playoff at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball qualifier at the Springfield Country Club.
It wasn’t a game, but a fully-padded scrimmage was the next best thing for the University of Massachusetts football team.
PITTSFIELD — It was getting dark, and when Steve Sykes lined up his par putt on the second playoff hole, it could have cost his team a shot at the co-championship in the Berkshire Hills Country Club Fall Classic.
The fallout from the proposed realignment of Minor League Baseball could have an effect on North Adams and Pittsfield.
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