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UConn’s Hurley talks his routine to prepare for the new season
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The UConn men’s basketball team plays its final exhibition game of the preseason Tuesday night against Purdue at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford. The game is the last tuneup for the Huskies before they start the season Monday night against Gardner-Webb. This season will be head coach Dan Hurley’s ninth on the […]
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Inside Longmeadow golf’s championship run: The secret to the Lancers’ success
Go behind the scenes with Longmeadow golf to find out how the Lancers won the Western Mass. Division I title and prepare for the MIAA state championship.
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Daily Collegian
Brown: Keys to success for UMass men’s basketball
A new basketball season brings new challenges, especially for a mid-major program like the Massachusetts men’s basketball team. The fortunate side of the equation for a team that had so much roster turnover in the offseason: the game stays the same, as do many of the team characteristics under head coach Frank Martin.
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H.S. football: Amherst holds onto narrow 25-24 victory over Taconic in wild finish
AMHERST — As the temperature dropped during the Amherst-Taconic football game on Friday, the action ratcheted up. Leading 25-24 in the fourth quarter, Hurricanes quarterback Jackson Bajnoci was picked off for the first time of the night with five minutes, 34 seconds showing on the clock. The Thunder used...
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UMass women’s club hockey claims victory over Colorado
The Massachusetts women’s club hockey team claimed victory in a 2-0 shutout at home against Colorado on Sunday. The Minutewomen’s (5-5) offensive pressure secured the commanding shutout, tallying 48 total shots on goal compared to the Buffaloes’ (7-4) seven attempts. Hannah Gromko sealed UMass’s win with 2:57...
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Smith Voc Girls Advance Past Lenox
LENOX, Mass. – Evelyn Wanczyk scored a goal and provided an assist Monday to lead the fifth-seeded Smith Vocational girls soccer team to a 5-1 win over Lenox in the quarter-finals of the Western Massachusetts Class C Tournament. Jane Elliot scored with an assist from Cate Welch to tie...
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Geno Auriemma Voices Frustration With UConn Freshman as Huskies Wrap Undefeated Exhibition Run
Just a few seconds after the second half started, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma subbed out Jana El Alfy and put in a freshman named Olivia Vukosa. The UConn coach wanted a strong frontcourt reinforcement who could collect rebounds and challenge an opponent in the paint. Vukosa didn’t disappoint. She collected a team-high 9 rebounds and scored 10 points in just 18 minutes. Two days after, things had drastically changed for the freshman. Auriemma was highly impressed with Vukosa and noted that his freshman had played better than she had ever played during practice. But on Sunday, his tone flipp...
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Huskies end preseason in style with dominant win over Purdue
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - The UConn men’s basketball team ended its preseason with a dominant 76-53 win over the Purdue Boilermakers. The Huskies shot much better from the floor than Purdue, making 43.1% of their attempts and 28.6% of their shots from three point range. The Boilermakers only shot 32.8% from the floor and a poor 8% from behind the three point line.
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Linchitz Leads RIC at Little East Women's Golf Championship
Westfield, Mass.--Senior Mya Linchitz (Warwick, R.I.) is currently tied for seventh place as Rhode Island College wrapped up the first round of the 2026 Little East Conference Women's Golf Championship, hosted by Westfield State at Tekoa Country Club, on Saturday afternoon. THE BASICS. • Rhode Island College is currently fifth...
Daily Collegian
Beunza’s brace lifts No. 5 Kansas City past UMass 3-2
The Massachusetts men’s soccer team traveled to Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday, where the Minutemen (5-7-3, 1-2-1 Summit League) fell 3-2 to the No. 5 Kansas City Roos (11-2-2, 4-0 Summit). With both teams looking to finish the season strong, Kansas City leveraged its home field and a standout performance from Mariano Beunza to hold off a second-half push from UMass and come away with the victory.
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Western Mass. boys soccer: 5 top performances from the final week of the regular season
As we all turn the corner to postseason action, especially as the Western Massachusetts regional tournament kicked off on Sunday, stakes are rising across the board as teams battle to take home some hardware. But with the regular season officially over, let’s take a look back at some of the...
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Pittsfield Advances to Western Mass Semis
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Armando Correas converted a penalty kick midway through the second half to break a 1-1 tie and send the Pittsfield boys soccer team on to a 4-1 win over South Hadley in the Western Massachusetts Class B Quarter-Finals. After a scoreless first half, Quinn Schaller scored...
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Ball: UMass women’s basketball reloads its roster with seven new players
The Massachusetts women’s basketball team is coming into the 2026-27 season with a new look. Head coach Mike Leflar and the Minutewomen are entering their second season in the Mid-American Conference off the back of a 15-3 conference record in the 2025-26 campaign, which ended in a first-round conference tournament exit. With three players graduating and two transferring out, seven new players were brought in to create the 15-player roster.