Clark Holds Off Nichols 2-1 as Owen Bergin and Wyatt Polletta Deliver the Goals
By Tiffany Williams – Clark built a two-goal lead, survived Nichols’ second-half response and left Dudley with a 2-1 men’s soccer victory Thursday at Nichols Soccer Field. Owen Bergin opened the scoring, Wyatt Polletta supplied the eventual winner and Jaime Pedraza made four saves to help the Cougars finish the job. Nichols made the final…
Worcester State Runs Over Fitchburg State With 27 Unanswered Points in 34-14 Comeback
By Tiffany Williams – Worcester State went into halftime trailing and came out ready to take over. Behind three rushing touchdowns from Lance Williams, 152 rushing yards from Gavin Hatfield and a defense that surrendered nothing on the scoreboard after the break, the Lancers stormed past Fitchburg State, 34-14, Saturday at Robert Elliot Field in…
WPI Survives Two Saturday Battles as Women’s Soccer Lets Halftime Lead Slip Away
By Tiffany Williams – WPI got a Saturday lesson in just how thin the line is between taking a game and giving one away. The men’s soccer team protected an early goal, the field hockey team fought through overtime and a shootout, and the women’s soccer team watched a halftime advantage disappear under Salve Regina’s…
Miami (Ohio) Dominates Holy Cross 45-7 Behind McComb’s Perfect Passing Day, 42-Point First Half
By Tiffany Williams – OXFORD, Ohio — Miami (Ohio) scored touchdowns on its first five meaningful possessions, added a special-teams score and built a 42-point halftime lead before cruising to a 45-7 victory over Holy Cross Friday afternoon at Fred C. Yager Stadium. Miami improved to 1-1, while Holy Cross fell to 0-3 overall and…
Tractor-Trailer Fire Shuts Down I-84 West Near Exit 5 in Sturbridge
By Tiffany Williams – STURBRIDGE, Mass. — Breaking news overnight as emergency crews are responding to a tractor-trailer fire on Interstate 84 in Sturbridge. Massachusetts State Police and the Sturbridge Fire Department are responding to the area of Exit 5, where a tractor-trailer unit is reported to be fully engulfed in flames. The fire is…
Red Sox Announce 2027 Spring Training Schedule With Yankees Games, New Prospect Tournament
By Laura Soukkavong – BOSTON — Baseball’s calendar has always had a way of looking ahead. September can still be unfolding, October can still be waiting, and somewhere beyond another New England winter there is already a February afternoon in Florida with baseball scheduled to be played. For the Boston Red Sox, that afternoon now…
WooSox Dominate Buffalo Series Before Stunning Seven-Run Inning Ends Five-Game Winning Streak
By Laura Soukkavong – BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Worcester Red Sox spent most of their week at Sahlen Field playing like a team that had rediscovered how to control baseball games. They received dominant starting pitching, produced runs early, hit for power, rallied when they fell behind and, by Saturday night, had constructed their fourth…
WPI Men’s Soccer Falls 3-2 to Western New England After Surrendering Two Goals in Final 7 Minutes
By Laura Soukkavong – SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — For much of the second half Sunday afternoon, WPI had done the difficult part. The Engineers had erased a halftime deficit, found an attacking answer in Adin Pezo and turned a one-goal hole into a one-goal lead. Then came the final 7 minutes 14 seconds. Western New England…
WPI Women’s Soccer Earns First Win of Season With 3-1 Victory Over Cortland
By Laura Soukkavong – WORCESTER, Mass. — There are victories that reveal themselves through the final score, and there are victories that say something about how a team responds when a game begins moving against it. For the WPI women’s soccer team, Sunday afternoon’s 3-1 victory over Cortland offered a little of both. The Engineers…
Worcester Red Sox Erase Late Deficit, Beat Buffalo 4-2 Behind Kristian Campbell Home Run
By Laura Soukkavong – BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Worcester Red Sox were down. They were not done. And when the eighth inning arrived Saturday night at Sahlen Field, Kristian Campbell made sure the Buffalo Bisons learned the difference. Trailing 2-1 and running out of outs, Worcester exploded for three runs in the eighth, with Campbell…
WPI Volleyball Earns First Win With Wentworth Sweep, Falls to Williams in Four Sets
By Laura Soukkavong – WALTHAM, Mass. — For WPI, Saturday at the Brandeis Invitational was an afternoon that offered two very different results and perhaps one encouraging lesson. The Engineers showed how dangerous they can be when their offense is operating efficiently, then showed how stubborn they can be when a match appears to be…
Montclair State Shuts Out WPI 4-0 as Engineers Remain Scoreless Through Two Matches
By Laura Soukkavong – WORCESTER, Mass. — The final score will say Montclair State dominated WPI on Saturday afternoon. Four goals against none usually leaves little room for interpretation, but the numbers from H. Carr Field at Alumni Stadium reveal something more instructive about the Engineers’ first loss of the season. WPI created opportunities. The…
WPI Football Falls 35-7 to RPI as Turnovers, Explosive Plays Decide Transit Trophy Rivalry
By Laura Soukkavong – WORCESTER, Mass. — For nearly an entire half Saturday, WPI did many of the things an offense is supposed to do. The Worcester Engineers possessed the football, extended drives and moved deep into RPI territory, but the scoreboard stubbornly refused to reward them. That ultimately became the story of the annual…
Ithaca Rallies Past WPI 2-1 After Katie Adiletta’s Long-Range Goal Gives Engineers Early Lead
By Laura Soukkavong – ITHACA, N.Y. — For more than 53 minutes Saturday afternoon, Katie Adiletta’s right foot had given WPI exactly what it needed. The Engineers had the lead on the road, had survived Ithaca’s first-half pressure and were trying to turn one spectacular goal into their first victory of the season. Then the…
WPI Men’s Cross Country Takes Second at UMass Invitational, Edges Holy Cross by Three Points
By Laura Soukkavong – AMHERST, Mass. — Cross country rarely gives a team one decisive moment. There is no last-second shot, no fourth-quarter touchdown and no ninth-inning swing, but there are places throughout a race where seconds become positions and positions become points. For WPI on Saturday morning, enough of those positions belonged to the…
Red Sox vs. Yankees: Garrett Whitlock Returns as Boston Looks to Wake Up Its Offense
By Tiffany Williams – NEW YORK — The Boston Red Sox have spent more than two months playing like one of the best teams in baseball. Now comes the uncomfortable part. Prove it against the Yankees. Boston enters Saturday’s doubleheader in New York having lost back-to-back games, and the problem is not difficult to diagnose.…
WooSox, RailRiders Series Tied 2-2 as Roman Anthony, Trevor Story, Isiah Kiner-Falefa Return Saturday
By Tiffany Williams – WORCESTER, Mass. — Four games down. Two games left. And after four wildly different nights at Polar Park, the Worcester Red Sox and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders enter the weekend exactly where they started. Even. The six-game series between the Triple-A affiliates of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees is tied…
Diamond Miller Scores 19, Nell Angloma Sets Career High as Sun Fall 111-91 to Fever
By Tiffany Williams – INDIANAPOLIS — The Connecticut Sun came out firing. Then Indiana buried them. Connecticut built a 14-point first-quarter lead Friday night before the Indiana Fever detonated for 39 points in the second quarter and never looked back, handing the Sun a 111-91 loss inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Connecticut fell to 10-29. Indiana improved…
WooSox Rout RailRiders 7-1 as Roman Anthony, Red Sox Rehabbers Spark Worcester
By Tiffany Williams – WORCESTER, Mass. — Roman Anthony started it. The bottom of the Worcester lineup finished it. And by the time the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders could stop the damage, the Worcester Red Sox had turned Thursday night at Polar Park into a 7-1 rout. The WooSox struck for three runs in the first inning,…
Three Red Sox Rehabbers Headline WooSox Lineup as Worcester Tries to Stop Late-Season Slide
By Tiffany Williams – WORCESTER, Mass. — Polar Park is turning into Rehab Central. And Thursday night, the first three hitters in Worcester’s lineup will once again belong to Boston. Roman Anthony. Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Trevor Story. Three Boston Red Sox players on rehab assignments will occupy the top three spots in the Worcester Red Sox…
Worcester EMS Promotes Kyle Stark and Dan Bruce as Massachusetts TERT Supports City During Officer Kurt Solomon Services
By Tiffany Williams – WORCESTER, Mass. — Worcester’s emergency medical services operation is getting new leadership while emergency communications personnel from across Massachusetts are being recognized for stepping in during one of the city’s most difficult weeks. Worcester EMS announced the promotion of Paramedic Kyle Stark and Paramedic Dan Bruce to the rank of lieutenant…
QCC Police Prepare for Active Shooter Emergencies With Worcester Police SWAT Training
By Tiffany Williams – WORCESTER, Mass. — When gunfire erupts, there is no time to figure out who is responsible for what. That is why the entire Quinsigamond Community College Police Department recently went through comprehensive active shooter response training alongside the Worcester Police Department SWAT Team, putting personnel across the department through training designed…
