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Geoff Smith

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Former sportswriter now working at a prep school. MUFC/Celtics/Bucs/Revs fan. Tweets are my own. I'm sort of all over the place but that makes it more fun.
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'I'm going to play': Hoosac Valley's Alie Mendel opens up about battle with thyroid cancer ahead ...

'I'm going to play': Hoosac Valley's Alie Mendel opens up about battle with thyroid cancer ahead ...

The Berkshire Eagle — Going into her senior year at Hoosac Valley, Alie Mendel was asking herself a question no 17-year-old should have to wonder: "Am I going to die?" Mendel was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer on June 21, just six days before receiving one of the biggest accolades of her athletic career: The Berkshire Eagle's Female Athlete of the Year award.
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Lee native Susan North-Patterson to be inducted to Springfield College Hall of Fame

Lee native Susan North-Patterson to be inducted to Springfield College Hall of Fame

The Berkshire Eagle — When Susan North-Patterson, then just Sue North, first started running, she did it to emulate her older brother. Little did North know, though, that her first steps into competitive running would set the stage for a career of firsts - both competitively, and figuratively.
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Creating an advantage: Wrestler Christian Burdick is different from his peers but doesn't let tha...

Creating an advantage: Wrestler Christian Burdick is different from his peers but doesn't let tha...

Bennington Banner — BENNINGTON -- As Christian Burdick grows from an 11-year-old 5th grader at Molly Stark Elementary School into a high school student and beyond, he is going to have to make tough decisions all adolescents must make. Decisions on what clothes to wear, what his first car will be, how he wants to look and what sports he wants to play.
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Gymfest of the Berkshires' Pickard secures bid to Eastern Championships

Gymfest of the Berkshires' Pickard secures bid to Eastern Championships

The Berkshire Eagle — PITTSFIELD - It's a long way to the top if you want to rock 'n roll, and 16-year-old Hailey Pickard has already put in the hard hours to get there. But instead of shredding a guitar or banging away on the drums, Pickard's rhythm comes on the gymnastics floor.
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The mastermind: How one call changed Hoosac Valley girls basketball history

The mastermind: How one call changed Hoosac Valley girls basketball history

The Berkshire Eagle — It's amazing the things that can happen when you are willing to take a leap of faith.After three seasons away from being a head coach, Ron Wojcik received a call from then Hoosac Valley boys basketball coach Bill Robinson in 2010.Robinson had a ...
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Geoff Smith: Finally, Lenox gets over its title-game hump

Geoff Smith: Finally, Lenox gets over its title-game hump

The Berkshire Eagle — WESTFIELD - Finally. If you search the definition of the word in Google, the first result is "after a long time, typically involving difficult or delay." Nic Baruch, could you use it in a sentence, please? "It feels so amazing, I can't even describe the feeling. It's perfect, you know?
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Geoff Smith | Top Moment of 2018: Introduction of Unified Sports gives varsity opportunities to a...

Geoff Smith | Top Moment of 2018: Introduction of Unified Sports gives varsity opportunities to a...

The Berkshire Eagle — When I look back on 2018, there are plenty of Western Mass. championship wins I could write about, or individual moments of brilliance that captured my imagination as I wrote a game story. But when I sat down to really think about the moments that resonated with me, I kept coming back to a pair of events on either end of the calendar.
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Mount Everett bounces No. 1 Monson, lands in Western Mass. D-IV final

Mount Everett bounces No. 1 Monson, lands in Western Mass. D-IV final

The Berkshire Eagle — AMHERST - Mount Everett girls basketball coach Scott Rote likened the 2018-19 season to flipping through a book. The veteran Eagles coach said that with every flip of the page, his Eagles have followed the script that he laid out in his head way back at the start of the season.
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Lanesborough's Josh Appelbaum set to release first book on sports betting

Lanesborough's Josh Appelbaum set to release first book on sports betting

The Berkshire Eagle — When Josh Appelbaum sits down to watch the Super Bowl tonight, he will do so as a nervous New England Patriots fan. But while Appelbaum, 31, will certainly be nervous for his hometown team, the Lanesborough native will have something else in the back of his mind - the release of his first book.
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Maria Gamberoni beats buzzer to send Wahconah girls basketball by Hoosac Valley

Maria Gamberoni beats buzzer to send Wahconah girls basketball by Hoosac Valley

The Berkshire Eagle — DALTON - Like the old saying goes, two is always better than one. For the Wahconah girls basketball team, that means that two Gamberonis are better than one, and the proof was in the pudding in the team's 46-44, buzzer-beating win over Hoosac Valley on Thursday night.
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Wahconah cheerleaders headed back to nationals for 2nd straight year

Wahconah cheerleaders headed back to nationals for 2nd straight year

The Berkshire Eagle — DALTON - The key to building any sort of sustained success is consistency. That's why for the Wahconah cheer team, this year's trip to the National High School Cheerleading Competition is arguably as big as last year's inaugural invitation. A year after the program worked its way to the national level, it kept its positioning.
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Mount Everett basketball's Gwendolyn Carpenter sets Eagles school scoring record

Mount Everett basketball's Gwendolyn Carpenter sets Eagles school scoring record

The Berkshire Eagle — DALTON - More than anything, what tells the story of Gwendolyn Carpenter and her basketball exploits at Mount Everett isn't the made field goals or sunk free throws, nor the countless assists or steals that she's recorded. It's the impact she's had on people off the court, that make them remember what she did on it.
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The grand master: Hoosac Valley senior Alie Mendel scores 1,000th career point in win over Taconi...

The grand master: Hoosac Valley senior Alie Mendel scores 1,000th career point in win over Taconi...

The Berkshire Eagle — PITTSFIELD - Alie Mendel isn't one for the spotlight. But with 6 minutes and 21 seconds left of Thursday's game, the Hoosac Valley senior became the center of attention at Taconic High School when she buried a 3-pointer on a pass from Shaleigh Levesque. The made 3-pointer itself isn't something new.
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Herrick, Helmke shine for Berkshire School in win over Roughley-less Salisbury School

Herrick, Helmke shine for Berkshire School in win over Roughley-less Salisbury School

The Berkshire Eagle — SHEFFIELD - Graham Herrick and Noah Helmke teaming up to lead their basketball team to a win is not something new. The team, though, has changed. A year after leading the Monument Mountain boys basketball program to a Western Massachusetts Division III finals apperance, the duo now sport the Green and Grey of Berkshire School.
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Delgado's strike lifts Lenox boys soccer team to second straight Western Mass. D-IV crown

Delgado's strike lifts Lenox boys soccer team to second straight Western Mass. D-IV crown

The Berkshire Eagle — WESTFIELD - Yes, Keveen Delgado scored the winning goal of the Western Massachusetts Division IV championship for all of his Lenox teammates and coaches. But Delgado had an ulterior motive when he broke through five Westfield Tech defenders to record the lone goal of Lenox's 1-0 win over the Tigers on Saturday - his mother.
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Elliot scores twice to lift Lenox girls soccer back into Western Mass. D-IV championship game

Elliot scores twice to lift Lenox girls soccer back into Western Mass. D-IV championship game

The Berkshire Eagle — HOLYOKE - Like any good freshman, Lenox's Mary Elliot took the pitch at Holyoke High School on Wednesday night with one idea in mind - don't let down the seniors. Elliot did not let down her seniors. The diminutive freshman struck twice inside the final five minutes of the first half against No.
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Roundball smiles: Mount Greylock hosts first Unified basketball game against Wahconah

Roundball smiles: Mount Greylock hosts first Unified basketball game against Wahconah

The Berkshire Eagle — WILLIAMSTOWN - Early in the second half of a tied basketball game Wednesday night, Mount Greylock's Faith Karl scooped up a rebound, turned and fired a pass to Hayden Robb for a shot. Karl, though, wasn't passing to her Mountie teammate. Rather, she was giving the ball back to Robb and his Wahconah Warriors.
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Peru scores late to draw with US Men's National Team at friendly in Hartford

Peru scores late to draw with US Men's National Team at friendly in Hartford

The Berkshire Eagle — EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Just when it looked like the U.S. men's national team was going to escape Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field with a win in the final home game of 2018, the defense fell asleep.
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Tatro gets shot at the big time, signs with Zandstra Motorsports to race national snocross this w...

Tatro gets shot at the big time, signs with Zandstra Motorsports to race national snocross this w...

The Berkshire Eagle — Bradley Tatro has always enjoyed the thrill of an engine propelling him forward. Now, he's using a snowmobile to drive him from what started out as a dream, into a reality. Tatro, a Stamford, Vt. resident and 2017 graduate of McCann Tech in North Adams, will race for Zandstra Motorsports this winter and compete in the ISOC National circuit.
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Berkshire Cal Ripken 11U All-Star team honored with own exhibit at Baseball in the Berkshires mus...

Berkshire Cal Ripken 11U All-Star team honored with own exhibit at Baseball in the Berkshires mus...

The Berkshire Eagle — LANESBOROUGH - Larry Moore summed up Sunday afternoon best when he looked at the members of the 11U Berkshire Cal Ripken team and said: "we are proud to have you, because you are making part of history."
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The new Warriors: Wahconah Unified track and field team hosts inaugural home meet against South H...

The new Warriors: Wahconah Unified track and field team hosts inaugural home meet against South H...

The Berkshire Eagle — DALTON - "The key part for us, is that every kid who walks through our doors has the opportunity to play a sport. All of them." Wahconah athletic director Jared Shannon's statement is one that ADs across the country will make when discussing athletic offerings at their school.
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Geoff Smith | On Sports: The audacity of Wahconah girls basketball's freshman duo

Geoff Smith | On Sports: The audacity of Wahconah girls basketball's freshman duo

The Berkshire Eagle — CHESHIRE - The audacity of Noelle Furlong and Maria Gamberoni. Don't those Wahconah freshmen know that no one beats Hoosac Valley in a Western Massachusetts playoff game? Don't those Wahconah freshmen know that, definitely, no one beats Hoosac Valley in Cheshire in the playoffs?
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Robinson emerging as new leader for Hoosac Valley girls basketball team

Robinson emerging as new leader for Hoosac Valley girls basketball team

The Berkshire Eagle — SPRINGFIELD - Ron Wojcik has been a lucky coach at Hoosac Valley, in the sense that every year, he sees one or two underclassmen emerge as future leaders of his girls basketball program. Mixed in with the veteran leadership the Hurricanes return each season, the dash of youthfulness has always been a key ingredient.
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Geoff Smith | Top Moment of 2017: Peyton Steinman takes over for PHS girls basketball in Western ...

Geoff Smith | Top Moment of 2017: Peyton Steinman takes over for PHS girls basketball in Western ...

The Berkshire Eagle — STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN - THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN - THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE Whew, it's the end of the year already? That went by quick. When the question was posed in the sports pod about our favorite moment from the last calendar year, my mind started racing.
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