Mount Greylock Deluges Greenfield High on Way to Super Bowl

ORANGE, Mass. — With more than 1,800 yards and 32 touchdowns this season, Mount Greylock Regional High School senior Ethan Ryan has a lot of fans.

Count Greenfield coach Mike Kuchieski among them.

"He's the best football player I've seen in a long time," Kuchieski said Tuesday after Ryan ran for 287 yards and six touchdowns to propel the Mounties to a 62-0 win over the Green Wave and a third straight trip to the Western Massachusetts Division 3 Super Bowl.

"They're the best football team we've faced all year. There's no doubt about that. They can do everything up front, and they have great backs. Those two backs (Ryan and Daivon Clement) are thunder and lightning."

On Saturday afternoon at Westfield State University, the Mounties will go for a third straight Western Mass crown against Belchertown, a 26-0 winner over St. Joseph on Tuesday evening in Holyoke.

Against Greenfield (8-3), the Mounties scored on their first play from scrimmage — a 48-yard scamper by Ryan — and never looked back.

Ryan had just one carry after half-time, a 62-yard score, and fullback Clement ran for 112 yards and scored two touchdowns — one off the right arm of freshman quarterback Brodie Altiere.

Defensively, the Mounties (10-1) limited Greenfield star quarterback Zach Bartak to 60 yards rushing; 33 of those yards came on a 35-yard drive in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter. Bartak did manage 78 yards through the air, but he also threw two interceptions.

"We take so many chances offensively that we kind of rely on the big play to happen sometimes with some of our athletes, and sometimes when that doesn't go it hurts us a little bit," Kuchieski said. "I think with the type of offense we have, we have to get the big play, and Mount Greylock is probably the most athletic team we've faced all year.

Ryan credited Greylock coach Shawn Flaherty and his staff for getting the Mounties prepared to shut out a Greenfield offense that scored 30 or more points five times this year.

"Coach Flaherty prepared us really well," said Ryan, a senior captain who plays in the defensive backfield. "Bartak's a great quarterback, obviously, as you saw tonight. But coach really prepared us and told us what was coming, and everyone did their job tonight."

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Greylock won its third straight game and posted its fourth shutout of the season. The defense added a new wrinkle in its late season run of four games — and counting — against teams that run a spread offense.

"We played that 4-2-5, that seems to be the 'now' defense with modern football," Flaherty said. "In Division I football, it's all spread, and the 4-2-5, I think, is going to be the defense that is the answer — at least the closest thing to an answer for that.

"And we let the kids play. We put an aggressive pass rush on and were able to blitz our linebackers at times."

Tyler Picard recorded a sack for 4 yards on the first play from scrimmage, and Matt Malloy added a sack for 5 on Greenfield's second possession.

The closest the Green Wave got to sniffing the end zone was a second quarter drive that started on Greenfield's 39 with the Mounties holding an 18-0 lead.

A pass that deflected off Clement's hands found Greenfield's Garrett Hudson for a first down at midfield, and four plays later the Green Wave had a first-and-goal at the 5. But Picard knocked down a pass at the line of scrimmage on second down, Spencer Haley broke up a pass in the end zone on third, and Haley made a shoestring tackle on Bartak for no gain on fourth down to end the threat.

"It definitely was a momentum swing," Ryan said. "They were coming hard, and nobody wants to see anything but a zero on the other side of the scoreboard. Everyone dug down deep and really just did what they had to do."

That included Haley, a 5-foot-8, 150-pound senior who wears the eye-catching No. 70 in Mount Greylock's defensive backfield. The number looked more natural at his former position: the defensive line.

"It's a good story," Flaherty said. "When he was younger, he was a D-tackle and an O-lineman. But when we'd run the scout teams, when our team was offense, he would play corner. You get your opportunity to play at different spots if you want to at times.

"He got to play, and he really did a nice job. And with Hank [Barrett] gone and some other injuries or some tenderness here or there ... We used to make jokes about 'Haley island,' but we said, 'Son of a gun, he can play there,' and we put him in. And he did a nice job."

Prospect Meadow Farm Opens New Vocational Barn

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
05:40AM / Thursday, June 18, 2026

A charcuterie board at the event displays fare from some of the regional producers.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Prospect Meadow Farm last week officially opened a new barn to sell plants and other goods it produces.

Prospect Meadow Farm Berkshires is an expansion of ServiceNet's first farm in Hatfield that has provided meaningful agricultural work, fair wages, and personal and professional growth to hundreds of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities since opening in 2011. 

The Berkshires farm opened on Crane Avenue two years ago and has now introduced a new vocational and unwinding space for the more than 25 farmhands who get paid a minimum wage.

"This is a facility for our folks who work on the farm to learn additional skills and do additional work," said Vice President of Vocational Services Shawn Robinson at the Friday event. "So we have a food packaging space, we've got a walk-in cooler space, we've got a floral design space, we've got a farm store room for staff, lunch room, and then a meditation room that we're standing in now, which is when you're having those hard moments and you need to get away from everything.

"This is going to be a peaceful place you can find and sort of find some comfort, and then hopefully get back to work."

The barn was built by funds from the state Executive Office of Economic Development and the state Department of Agricultural Resources that equated to around $600,000, with ServiceNet contributing around the same amount. The structure took over a year to build.

The state's Department of Developmental Services Commissioner Sarah Peterson spoke on how meaningful this farm and ServiceNet is to her and that this place is important to those who need it.

"Places like this are so crucial because they create opportunities for people living with disabilities that aren't plentiful," she said. "People living with developmental and intellectual disabilities have an unemployment rate over 25 percent five times the rate for people without disabilities, even more jarring is under appointment, which is at 80 percent. That means that four out of every five people with disabilities earn below market rate wages and have limited upward mobility.

"The building itself is really impressive, but what you're really seeing here is the result of vision. It's about opportunity, it's about community, and it's founded in the belief that every person deserves the chance to learn and work and contribute to thrive under the leadership of ServiceNet."

One aspect of the barn will be the market where produce from the farm and other local growers will be sold as well as keeping the tradition of Jodi's Seasonal, which previously occupied the location, alive with plant sales. The market will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

"Everything you see in terms of the tomatoes, the fresh produce, that's all done with the hands of our farm hands here, individuals with disabilities who get out every single morning, get in those greenhouses, put their hands in the dirt, and make all of this happen, and this is just the start," said Robinson. "This farm is a little over a year old at this point, but give it another two years, and we hope to be growing enough food to share throughout the Berkshires."

Robinson said the farm is focused on local food security, recently partnering with the Hatfield Council on Aging and planning to work toward making enough food to partner with places in the Berkshires.

He said the barn serves the Hatfield farm and what the employees here needed.

"We've been able to learn the needs of the farm hands who work there and so we have learned that they need a comfortable break space for those times where it's hard to be out in the fields, we've learned that a quiet space for when you're going through something you need to be away from people are key, and then also we have a small farm store in Hatfield, but we've seen increasing interest in retail work from our participants, so we thought it was time for a larger-scale farm store," he said.

Robinson noted that Prospect Meadow Farm has helped the individuals working there feel valued and head.