`Bitter' win sweet for UMass
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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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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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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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PHILADELPHIA -- It had been seven years since the University of Massachusetts had won a basketball game in the Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, which is either intimate or claustrophobic, depending on your bias. It had been even longer since the Minutemen had so much at stake.
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The cynics will point to the final score of Boston College's 29-7 victory over the University of Massachusetts yesterday before an Alumni Stadium crowd of 43,262 and conclude that the Eagles didn't win convincingly enough against their Division 1-AA opponents.
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AMHERST - After pausing for a week of final exams, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen submitted to an eminently manageable test last night in the form of the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils. They wound up passing with flying colors, if not quite acing it, coming away with a 79-55 victory.
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KINGSTON, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island's 27-24 victory over the University of Massachusetts yesterday at Meade Stadium was the sort of game the 4,376 on hand for Homecoming Day could savor.
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University of Massachusetts football coach Don Brown tends to look back at games with a cold, sometimes brutal level of analysis. There are times, though, when he can't entirely suppress the little-boy wonder.
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AMHERST -- Deval Patrick couldn't be present for the presentation of the Governor's Cup at the end of Boston College's 84-73 victory over Massachusetts in last night's Commonwealth Classic. So the job fell upon UMass athletic director John McCutcheon, who had hoped to hand the hardware to his basketball coach, Travis Ford.
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In many ways, the University of Massachusetts seemed to be in over its head in the semifinals of the NCAA men's soccer tournament Friday night in Cary, N.C. But the Minutemen remained composed while being badly outplayed by Ohio State, then rallied to produce some threatening sequences in the second half of a 1-0 loss.
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AMHERST -- In close games all season long, the University of Massachusetts had been able to shift to a higher gear. Yesterday, they stalled.
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The details of Rose Devlin's first game with the women's hockey team at the University of Massachusetts at Boston do not come to mind as easily as her feelings. The freshman from Quincy was sitting among the rest of the spectators watching the game.
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AMHERST -- University of Massachusetts coach Don Cahoon is being cautiously optimistic after guiding the Minutemen to their first 20-win season. UMass took a 5-2 victory over Maine last night, sweeping the best-of-three Hockey East playoff series, but a semifinal berth in the tournament does not satisfy Cahoon.
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It's been a winning season for the UMass-Lowell men's hockey team, excluding Hockey East play.
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When Elie Monteiro caught up with Katelyn Campopiano after her final game suiting up for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell women's soccer team, he was expecting a smile or a laugh.
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Maury Edwards didn't need much time to become an impact player in Hockey East. The freshman defenseman's fifth goal of the season was the winning strike in No. 15 UMass-Lowell's 4-1 victory over No. 10 Massachusetts last night at Tsongas Arena.
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Depleted but not defeated, the University of Massachusetts scored a dramatic 67-65 victory over Boston University last night at the Mullins Center.