Upstart UMass suffers setback
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AMHERST -- For the Saint Joseph's Hawks, it's all about being relentless. There's the Hawk mascot, who earns a full scholarship for flapping from the time he gets on the court until the time he leaves. There's the searing intensity of coach Phil Martelli.
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Boston University scored twice in the first period and held off Merrimack, 2-1, at Agganis Arena last night, but the Terriers paid a heavy price as talented sophomore goaltender John Curry was injured when he was hit behind the net late in the second period.
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The Boston College women's basketball team was hoping to get back on track last night after being upset by Vermont in the Rhode Island Tournament last weekend.
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In their first five games at Agganis Arena, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen came away empty. All five contests ended in regulation victories for Boston University.
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AMHERST -- A lot of bits were being champed very hard. For the University of Massachusetts football team, this past offseason seemed to last for years. The Minutemen didn't need much reminding about how they lost the last two games of 2005, falling short of the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs after starting out with a 7-2 record and a No. ...
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In a season in which the University of Massachusetts has flirted with the possibility of an NCAA Tournament appearance, the Minutemen continue to look ahead to their seeding in the Atlantic 10 tournament as the opportunity for an at-large bid dwindles.
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AMHERST -- They're talented but inexperienced, so flawless play is a bit much to expect of the University of Massachusetts Minutemen at this stage of the season.
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Junior John Yaros picked a good time to collect his first collegiate shutout as UMass-Lowell, entering a tough stretch of Hockey East games, stymied Providence, 2-0, yesterday at Schneider Arena.
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BROOKLINE -- There was some fine football played at Parsons Field yesterday, as the University of Massachusetts defeated Northeastern, 26-22. UMass junior running back Steve Baylark took over the game in the second half, finishing with 181 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries, as he went over 1,000 yards for the second straight year. And NU senior linebacker Liam ...
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They looked surprisingly strong against nonconference foes, but last night when the University of Massachusetts Minutemen opened Atlantic 10 play, they seemed, paradoxically, out of their league.
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It wasn't pretty, but UMass will take it. The Minutemen and Rhode Island Rams put on an ugly display of basketball last night, but UMass persevered in spite of shooting 29.4 percent in the first half to post a 49-44 victory over its Atlantic 10 foe.
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It was their moment, and they would not be denied. Playing a meaningful late-season basketball game for the first time since many of their players hit puberty, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen rose to the occasion in a huge way, overwhelming Rhode Island, 77-55, before a supercharged crowd of 8,358 at the Mullins Center last night.
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This was one time Dennis Wolff wished he had been out of timeouts. With his team trailing the University of Massachusetts, 56-54, and with the clock running down, the Boston University coach called time. Unfortunately, he got it, seconds before guard Tyler Morris drilled a desperation 3-pointer with 4.2 seconds left that would have given the Terriers a 57-56 victory ...
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AMHERST -- When the Commonwealth Classic was born, it more than lived up to its name. In 1995, the occasional basketball battles between Boston College and the University of Massachusetts were codified into a yearly series. On a snowy December day, 18,974 people, paying $35 or $50 a ticket, packed the newly christened FleetCenter to watch a Final Four-bound UMass ...
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DURHAM, N.H. -- After suffering losses each of the last four weeks in a &quot;murderer's row&quot; schedule -- in the words of coach Don Brown -- it appeared Massachusetts was about to lose No. 5 early in yesterday's game.
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Boston University scored once in each period and held off the University of Massachusetts, 3-2, last night in Amherst to run its road unbeaten streak to eight games.
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The start of last season seems eons ago now. Northeastern, which got off to an 0-11 start last season and didn't win until December, beat No. 10 Maine, 4-2, last night at Matthews Arena in its first Hockey East game of the season.