HOLYOKE — Bill Carroll may attend Holyoke Catholic high school, but the name on the front of his cross country jersey clearly says “Cathedral.”
A member of the Holyoke Catholic-Cathedral co-op boys team, Carroll and his teammates are ...

NOTE: Each week, MassLive cross country beat writer Mark C. Volain will select one of the week’s top performers for The Rundown, a hybrid profile that features both Q & A and standard article formats. The gender will alternate week-to-week, conti...

With a few weeks in the books, some of the top athletes in Western Mass. are starting to establish themselves at the top of the leaderboards. You can find the latest scoring leaders in soccer and field hockey, as well as the top cross country performan...

Note: Although five kilometers (3.1 miles) is the norm for cross country courses, not all of the Western Mass. high school courses feature that distance. As such, sometimes seemingly slower speeds are ranked higher, as we treat 3.1 as our benchmark. Al...

Agawam's Jason Beaver set a new freshman course record at Robinson State Park Tuesday, but the Belchertown boys cross country team won the meet 22-36.
Beaver's time broke a record set by Agawam's Jason Olbrych in 2002. Beaver's time was 19:29, and the ...

WILBRAHAM — Minnechaug senior Tyler Bernier was expecting to face reigning Western Mass. champion Liam Sullivan in Tuesday’s cross country meet between Minnechaug and Northampton. However, after Sullivan and the Blue Devils arrived, Bernier...