The Massachusetts All-State track meet at Bridgewater State University on Saturday is a chance for the best individual athletes from Western Massachusetts to shine. The later into the season it gets, the more it becomes a battle of those left standing....

FITCHBURG – Mickey McCartney’s beard is extraordinary.The Monument Mountain Regional High School boys track coach has a shaggy white beard of the sort that take years to grow in perfect. In fact, McCartney has been working on it for years.H...

WESTFIELD — When junior Allen Vance pulled up with a hamstring injury in the 400-meter dash for the Amherst boys track team, the meet favorites suddenly had a big problem. Not only did Amherst lose a projected six points in that event, but with V...

With the Western Massachusetts Championships in the past, attention shifts now to the Central/Western Mass. Championships. This time around though, don’t expect many of the same schools to be taking home hardware.The wider field of athletes makes...

WILBRAHAM — In high school sports, wins often come down to how well the senior leaders can perform. So when Minnechaug boys track senior captains Russell Wells and Jack Devine combined for 48 points on their own at the Western Massachusetts Divis...

Note: Every week MassLive will feature the top performers in each event in track and field. The leaders are based on the scores reported by coaches, and each performer can only appear once among the top times in his or her event. If anything is incorre...