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...

WESTFIELD — Agawam senior Megan Dustin has been waiting three years to run at the PVIAC Cross Country Championship. After performing admirably as a freshman, Dustin had two injury-plagued seasons before a mostly healthy senior season in which she...

After weeks of cross country meets – usually against just one or two teams – all of the Pioneer Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference will come together on Saturday for the PVIAC Championships, also sometimes called Individuals.
The fi...

At Friday's Springfield City Championship, it was the Central girls cross country team that walked away with team honors.
Central's score of 40 edged out Cathedral, who finished second with 45. Central's top runner was fourth place finisher Kineysha Ri...

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...

DALTON — After spending the entire regular season dominating half of Berkshire County each week, the Lenox girls cross country team proved to be an overall force at Saturday’s Berkshire County Championship.
The Millionaires built off of the...

After a season that saw two Berkshire County cross country meets per week, the county will unite on Saturday for one big cross country meet to kick off the postseason.
The Berkshire County Championships will be hosted at Wahconah High School this year....

Greenfield 28, Franklin Tech 50 Box score Gateway 21, Cathedral 21 Box score Belchertown 21, East Longmeadow 38 Box score Agawam 27, Holyoke 28 Box score Hampshire 0, Mahar 48 • Hampshire girls cross country defeats Holyoke Catholic 27-3...

Finishing with six runners in the top 10 on Tuesday, Hampshire girls cross country defeated Holyoke Catholic 27-30, handing the Gaels their first loss to a Pioneer South team since 2004.
Hampshire's Sophia Prouty finished first overall, with a time of ...

MONDAY, OCT. 20
BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Valley Central Sabis 25, Putnam 30 • Box score Valley North Northampton 21, Westfield 51 • Northampton boys cross country beats Westfield, finishes regular season undefeated • Box score
GIRLS CROSS...