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By KYLE GRABOWSKI

OXFORD – The Frontier baseball team won’t pinch hit for Brady Poreda again.The freshman No. 9 hole hitter plunged the dagger into No. 3 Oxford to send the No. 14 Redhawks to the MIAA Division 5 quarterfinals on the road Wednesday.After Frontier coach...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HADLEY – Vengeful thunder rang out from Liam Skribiski-Banack’s bat every time he made contact.The Frontier Regional baseball captain woke up with a “fire lit in [his] belly” Thursday morning ahead of the Redhawks’ second meeting with Hopkins Academy....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Mike Toth didn’t expect his homecoming game to turn into a coming out party.The Granby native figured he’d support his teammates from the Earl Lorden field dugout and maybe see some friends and family after the UMass baseball team’s home...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

EASTHAMPTON — A well-laid play propelled Teddy Bear Pools to pole position in the Tri-County Baseball League semifinals.The Bears wanted to jump on host Easthampton Savings Bank early at Daley Field and play to their stout defense. They scored three...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

“Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend” by Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker (University of Nebraska Press, 544 pages, $36.95)Years ago on a Florida road trip I stopped at the Sanford-Orlando Kennel Club, a dog track that opened...

Going by past years, the top three major league baseball clubs that aren't division winners in the American League win between 89 and 92 games (in the new format the top three non-division winners receive wild card berths). Going into the All-Star...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH DEERFIELD – Connor Waitkus stepped into the Valiton Field batter’s box – a familiar place – to some unfamiliar jeering.Waitkus, a Frontier Regional graduate, was wearing the Chicopee Tigers blue and orange, while his hecklers, former high school...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

HADLEY – Tyler Baranowski pointed to the sky with his back toward home plate.Frontier center fielder Sam Schreiber stood up with the baseball trapped in his glove. He just laid out horizontally to snag a deep fly ball into the gap and end the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Sam Schreiber kept Amherst guessing on the mound and left no doubt.The Frontier Regional senior pitcher allowed just two hits and two walks, striking out four in a 10-1 win over the Hurricanes on Wednesday at Stan Ziomek Diamond. He credited...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Tyler Baranowski cracked but didn’t break. Frontier Regional’s apex predator pitcher allowed three Hopkins Academy runs in the fourth inning Wednesday at home then silenced the Golden Hawks as his offense rallied to a 4-3 victory. He...

By ZACK DeLUCA

Between this week’s intermittent showers, coaches and student-athletes volunteered their time to lay the foundation for future fields of dreams at Pioneer Valley Regional School.According to the Pioneer Athletic Director Ernest Abramian, the PVRS...

By ADAM HARGRAVES

DEERFIELD — Max Edwards came to the mound in a precarious situation for Frontier Alber Hearing Services at Headmasters’ Field on Friday.Protecting a four-run lead against Amherst in the PVYBL Mickey Mantle playoffs, Edwards got the call with the bases...

By ADAM HARGRAVES

PALMER — Greenfield Post 81’s chances for a American Legion Senior Division Championship come down to one game on Saturday.  Greenfield lost to Wilbraham Post 286 Red, 6-4, on Friday night at Legion Field. The loss puts Greenfield in an elimination...

By DOMENIC POLI

WHATELY — The two articles on the warrant for a Special Town Meeting later this month aim to build a softball field at Herlihy Park to replace the one at the old elementary school sold to developer Bob Obear about six months ago.One article asks if...

By ADAM HARGRAVES

ORANGE — Will Peredina threw six innings of one-run baseball for Mahar Regional in a 11-3 season-opening win over Hopkins Academy on Thursday afternoon.Peredina struck out three and gave up seven hits.“I was just trying to replicate stuff I knew from...

By RONALD BLUM

NEW YORK — Sonny Gray was chased in the third inning by the team with worst record in the majors, big league-loss leader Alex Cobb ended a nine-start winless streak and the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 7-5 Wednesday.Despite what...

By JEFF LAJOIE

There was a grim realization confronting Jim Beattie when he woke up on July 31, 1998.The winds of change were inevitable.Staring at the NL East standings, the General Manager of the Montreal Expos couldn’t have been encouraged. His Expos stood at...

By JEFF LAJOIE

To have a shot at winning the American Legion Baseball Senior Division district championship, Greenfield Post 81 knew the road would have to go through Pittsfield Post 68.The perennial powerhouse from the Berkshires outslugged visiting Greenfield for...

By JEFF LAJOIE

After splitting a pair of games on Saturday, both the Greenfield and Frontier All-Stars are in position to advance in the Cal Ripken 11U Northeast Regional Tournament.Both teams stand at 1-1 after Sunday’s games were washed out due to poor weather in...

By JEFF LAJOIE

GREENFIELD — It was very much a ‘survive and advance’ kind of night for Greenfield Post 81.The top-seeded team in its pool, Greenfield overcame an early deficit, took a sizable lead, gave a few runs back, but ultimately held on for an 11-6 win over...