Greenfield Recorder – Keep the score with Chip Ainworth: Amhersts Jack Arena has put together a coaching career for the age group

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College Hockey community was stunned this week to hear that Jack Arena had resigned after 41 years and 539 Siegen as Amherst College hockey trainer.

According to a carefully formulated press release, “Arena will continue to work in other capacities at Amherst [including] Talent assessment as well as coaching development and mentoring. ”

Someone called it a “gradual retirement”. How ridiculous.

He explained his reason and said: “I always thought it was better to go a year earlier than a year too late.”

This seems to mean that he would still train if this light was not a frenzied train with pronoun at the end of the tunnel.

After all, there is an epicenter of Woke ideology, and athletics is not a top priority. The arena sees very likely that his girlfriend EJ Mills, the long -time football coach, has an indifferent admission office and difficulties to create a competitive football team. Mills had the first of successive undefeated seasons twelve years ago; This year he had two victories and eight overall since 2023. It is not easy to make mammoth soup made of mammoth manure.

Arena was born in Randolph and grew up and visited the Milton Academy, the same Alma Mater as TS Eliot, Robert F. Kennedy and Buckminster Fuller. He wrote down at Amherst, played hockey and finished fourth on the list of school of all time. In his senior season, he was appointed D-III player of the year.

After the coach went to a school of Division I, the sports director Arena asked if he wanted the job. “You made me easy,” said Arena about the coach of his former teammates, and an 18-5-1 record came to 27 winning seasons, two trips to the D-III frozen titles with four and three NescAC titles, along with various trainers of the year.

“Jack deserved his place in the Pantheon of the College hockey trainer,” said Umass coach Greg Carvel. “He is a very clever hockey type, but it is also funny, modest and friendly. It is a rarity in today and age.”

In 1997 Carvel Arena's degree assistant and joked: “I didn't add anything to the program, but he became a mentor and great life friend. I turned to him when I decided whether I should take the umass position. He told me and I then trusted him how I had it for almost thirty years. He was very good for me.”

The last game of arena was a double loss of overtime against Colby College in the conference semi -final on March 1st in Waterville, Maine. “Jack and I train for a long time, 39 years for me,” said Colby coach Blaise Macdonald in a telephone interview. “I think we are special people and Jack is undeniably at the top of the list. He did it right, he took the long term and taught them to influence and support others.”

In an article in Amhersts Alumni magazine a few years ago, assistant coach Greg Dinardo said that wherever he recruited.

In fact, Jack Arena will be remembered for a long time for the good that he sewed.

Journalisms The Bupes Play in today's Kentucky Derby, although some think I should wait for a more accurate pink like hack or poison stick. Owner Aaron Wellman said he gave his $ 825,000 Colt this name because he was the sports editor of his high school newspaper in Beverly Hills.

“In times of drama and the sound, I was accused like an angry sports clerk,” Wellman told the letter. “I am taking it and hope that it is good for journalism.”

In this letter, journalism had been set to 2-1 in advance, so that there are many Damon runyons.

Serious beds would like to hear what John Debrydnio thinks.

“The horse on which I close is Burnham Square. I need a working route, but this horse can run all day.”

Dibrydnio said he would use Bob Bafferts One Horse Citizen Bull in the Gimmicks.

The postal period is 6:57 p.m. in the words of the late Great Harvey Pack, may the horse be with them.

Scott Thayer enjoys the sweet success of the success. His Pioneer Panthers Hoops team ended a perfect 26-0 season in March with winning the D-5 state title in the Tsongas Center in Lowell. “It is time to enjoy the fruits of our work and enjoy something special,” said Thayer, whose grandfather F. Sumner Turner was the school's first superintendent. “How many children have the chance to assume as a state champion?

“I have trained for 35 years and don't know a team that was 26-0,” he added. “We went out and played for free and easy and had fun. The spirit can strangle the body, but we are never afraid to lose.”

What for Pioneers Fab Five now? His son Brayden will do a PG year at NMH. The nephew Kurt of assistant Fred Redeker will visit St. John Fisher University in Rochester, NY.

“No matter where you go, you will always be connected,” said Thayer.

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High Fives to Pioneer in the second year Natalie Rios, who broke her own record in the spear with a throw of 117 feet on Tuesday. “I'm proud of her,” said her father Pedro. “She is also a good student and a good person.”

The historian of the High School Hoops, Mike Cadran, has to report some western fair of all time. Adam Harrington keeps the career record for most career points. Harrington scored 2,347 points at Pioneer. After graduating in 1998, Harrington played State and Auburn at NC and spent a season in the NBA. He is currently head coach of the Phantom BC of the incomparable league, a professional 3-on-3 league for women.

In Hatfield, Bob Kovalski from Smith Academy holds the WMASS brand for the average of the season (37.6) and most points in one season (865) both in 1961.

Travis from Springfield Central holds the record for most points in a game with 81 for Springfield Central 1991. The best thing to do was play 708 games in 10 NBA season.

Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir from the permanently closed new management chart school in Springfield holds every school girl record of Wmass. In 2009 she scored an average of 41.8 points and her 878 points for the season increased a total of 3,070. Then she played College Ball in the state of Memphis and Indiana.

Four players from the Mac were recorded in the draft: Toledo Defensive Tackle Darius Alexander (Giants); Bowling Green Tight End Harold Fannin Jr. (Browns); Western Michigan Defensive Bilhal Kone (Ravens) and Central Michigan DB Donte Kent (Steelers). Not a big representation, but more than from the Big Sky, Conference USA and PAC-12.

Condolate to Billing Pedigree on the death of brother Bob at the age of 93 in Texas. Pedigree completed the GHS in 1949, completed a year in Deerfield, incorporated into Umass and led the base team to his final year when it played in College World Series under the former TFHS coach Earl Lordden.

After College Pedigree for the Cleveland Indians Farm System played in Double-A Reading and Triple A Mobile, where he married Jane Fowler with a long-term deal.

One sentence in the obituary summarized the time of the tribe on earth: “Bob's life was proof of the strength of family ties and the joy of everyday moments.”

Squibber: Design analyst Dane Brugler to Ross Tucker: “Shedur Sanders is a perfect example of how important the interview process is. He does a lot of good things, but if you go into the draft and think you have the leverage that will rub the people wrong.” … we have heard that a Greenfield golfer with Country Club connections won 100,000 US dollars by predicting exactly the six Masters finishers: Rory Mcilroy, Justin Rose, Patrick Reed, Scottie Sheffler, SJ IM and Bryson Dechambeau. … In D-III Softball News, the pitcher of Springfield College Lily Mcauliffe leads the nation with an ERA of 0.60, and the pitcher by Williams College, Sadie Leonard, leads the nation in 115.1 Innerings. … Greg Bedard von BSJ hoped that the patriots would use their third choice at the narrow end of Mason Taylor from LSU. “I covered his father Jason with the Miami Dolphins and his uncle Zach Thomas. Great family.” Unfortunately, in the second round, the Jets Taylor took the 42nd overall selection and the Pats with the 69th election, Kyle Williams, with the state wide wide receiver in Washington. … In the event that you ask yourself, the Red Sox and Yankees only meet early next month when you play three games in New York and three in Boston, which were embedded by three games in Fenway against the Rays. … Robert Parish played 14 seasons for the Celtics, but it may have been the first time when he played in Massachusetts when the 100-year-old lost to Charlotte, 69-66, in a benefit game on November 29, 1974 in the Springfield Civic Center. Bill Parcells has to roll with his eyes, but we were all there.

Chip Ainsworth is a award -winning columnist who has written his observations on sports in the Pioneer Valley for decades. It can be reached at chipjet715@gmail.com