Great Job Panthers

You played rough and hard and even though you didn't win, we are all very proud of you and the game you played ..
Keep humble and stay proud boys , we all have your backs, Great Job.

PALMER — It was a heartbreaking end to a hard-fought contest for the Pioneer Valley Regional School football team Friday night, as the Panthers fell, 14-7, to Palmer High School in a Tri-County League contest at Legion Field.
Pioneer, coming off a 14-0 home loss to Ware High School last week, came out of the gate strong, and rode into halftime with a 7-0 lead, largely on the legs of junior running back Bryce Dobosz. Dobosz rushed for 134 yards on 20 carries in the first half, leading an offensive attack that controlled the pace of play and the time of possession throughout the first 22 minutes.
After the Pioneer defense came up big on the game’s first possession, forcing a three-and-out, Pioneer would establish its running game early. While no points were scored on Pioneer’s first offensive possession, the Panthers went 56 yards on 13 plays — all rushes — and had Palmer on its heels.
Another defensive stand would set up Pioneer’s scoring drive, as it took the ball back at its own 36 with 1:59 remaining in the first quarter. Pioneer marched 64 yards for the score on eight plays, again all runs, capped off by a 7-yard push through the middle by Dobosz with 8:23 remaining in the second period. Dobosz carried the ball six times on the drive for 53 yards. Wyatt Keith would split the uprights for the extra point, and Pioneer had a 7-0 lead.
Palmer would make some noise on its next possession, starting at its own 42 and traveling all the way down to the Pioneer three before the defense once again made a huge play when it needed it the most, stopping Palmer on a fourth-and-goal, as Quarterback Ryan McCarthy threw the ball toward receiver Kyle Mastalerz for what looked like a game-tying score, but Pioneer’s Alex Tyson stepped in front and batted the ball down, ending the Palmer drive. Pioneer took over on downs at its own three, and the first half ended with the 7-0 advantage.

Pioneer, which had deferred the opening kickoff, began the third quarter with the ball and again went on a sustained drive that covered 51 yards on 13 plays, but were forced to punt after Tyson, who is also the quarterback for Pioneer, was dropped for a 7-yard sack on the Palmer 29. Pioneer opted to punt, and backed up Palmer to its own 4 to begin the ensuing possession.
The Pioneer defense appeared to tire just a little during the drive, and Palmer (5-0, 2-0 TCL) finally got its offense going. McCarthy led his troops on a 12-play, 96-yard march capped off with a 7-yard touchdown pass to Mastalerz. McCarthy would ass the extra point, and the score was knotted at 7 with 9:32 remaining in the game.

Pioneer (2-2, 0-2 TCL) seemed poised to take the lead right back, moving the ball seemingly at will against a Palmer defense that seemed to have no answer for Dobosz and company. Disaster would strike, however, as Tyson dropped back to throw just his second pass of the night on a third-and 7 from the Palmer 46, and threw the ball into the arms of Palmer’s Trevor Blackburn, who returned the ball to the to the Pioneer 48.
From there, McCarthy would not allow Palmer to be denied, as on first down he ran through the line and rambled for a gain of 35 yards, setting up a first-and-ten from the 13. After two runs by Mastalerz made it third-and-2 from the five yard-line, McCarthy took matters into his own hands, bulling his way up the middle for the score. He would then kick the point after for the 14-7 Palmer lead with 2;31 remaining in regulation.
Pioneer again moved the ball well on its next and final possession, marching from its own 26-yard line to the Palmer 29 before coming up short on fourth-and-four, handing the ball back to Palmer with 30 seconds to go. McCarthy would take a knee, and Palmer walked off with the 14-7 victory.
“We knew we needed to contain McCarthy, and we did for the first three quarters,” said Pioneer head coach Paul Worth. “He got going late, but we also shot ourselves in the foot more than once.”
Still, Worth was pleased with his team’s effort, and left them with one message: keep getting better.
Pioneer next hits the field Saturday when it hosts another TCL foe, Pathfinder ReVocational School at 1 p.m.

Games for the week

 10-03 ----- 10-08 All games for PVRS

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Panthers @Palmer

The Panthers will be traveling to Palmer Friday 10/7 . Game at 7:00

The address is : 24 Converse Street, Palmer Ma.


The field is at the high school.


 Bleed black shine gold Panthers.. Your a great team .. Show who the real Panthers are !

Really?

 This seems all well and good , but what happen to the Paw Prints? They use to be done yearly . Just not feeling this anymore than I am feeling the BS with this rental building .

 

 

Thanks to PVRS towns

Thursday, October 06, 2016

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To the towns of Bernardston, Leyden, Northfield, Warwick,
The Pioneer Valley Regional School District would like to thank the four towns for all their collaboration, funding and project work this summer. It is greatly appreciated.
In Bernardston, the entire parking lot around the school was repaved and relined before the start of school.
Leyden built new sidewalks in front and around the school building, as well as purchasing new fixtures for inside.
Northfield replaced classroom carpets and improved the landscaping in front of the school.

Warwick relined the entrance, parking areas and sidewalk at the school, also purchasing signage.
These were all needed and some for the safety of our students.

The four towns also sent Department of Public Works workers and equipment to repair a section of road going into Pioneer Valley Regional School. This cooperative work was done efficiently and as a result saved all the towns and taxpayers money.
The Pioneer Valley Regional School District Building and Grounds Subcommittee extends a huge thank you to all four towns.
PVRSD Building and Grounds Subcommittee

Do Cops in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?

• Josh Sanburn @joshsanburn

Oct. 29, 2015

The violent arrest of a South Carolina student shines a spotlight on school resource officers

The school resource officer whose violent arrest of a South Carolina student this week sparked a Justice Department investigation has drawn fresh scrutiny of the tens of thousands of police increasingly present in U.S. public schools.
The role of school resource officers (SROs), sworn law enforcement agents that help provide school security, is being re-examined after a video surfaced showing Ben Fields, a white officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., arresting a black 16-year-old after flipping the student out of her chair and dragging her across the floor. Fields, a Richland County senior deputy who spent seven years as an SRO, has since been fired, and the Department of Justice is considering whether the arrest violated civil rights laws.
Fewer than 100 police officers were in schools when the practice began in the 1950s, says Jason Nance, a University of Florida law professor who studies SROs. But they increased significantly throughout the 1980s and 1990s as tough-on-crime federal and state policies attempted to bring down juvenile crime rates around the country.
The shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 led to even more SROs after the federal government provided money for stepped-up security in schools. The number of school cops likely peaked around 2007 at roughly 19,000, Nance says. There are no definitive numbers on how many SROs are currently in the U.S., but the National Association of School Resource Officers estimates it’s between 14,000 and 20,000. Nance says the number likely dipped a bit after 2007 but picked up following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and has remained steady since.
School resource officers have all the powers of a regular police officer, including the right to arrest, which concerns civil rights groups who believe that the growth of cops in schools is contributing to the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. “I think they increase the likelihood that people will be involved in the juvenile justice or criminal justice system,” says Dennis Parker, director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program. “Our concern is that law enforcement in schools should be strictly limited to enforcement of criminal laws and not school discipline policies.”
Critics of SROs say that police are now dealing with disciplinary matters that previously would’ve been adjudicated by teachers or school administrators, and that teachers in schools with SROs are becoming overly reliant on officers who are readily available.
In a study to be published next year in the Washington University Law Review, Nance found that the presence of school resource officers increases the likelihood of students being involved in the justice system for virtually every offense that occurs in schools, including lower-level offenses like fighting and theft. According to the paper, the odds of a student accused of a low-level offense being referred to law enforcement in a school with a regular police presence is between 1.38 and 1.83 times higher than those without SROs. Other studies show that high schoolers who have early run-ins with the law are more likely to drop out of school or potentially be arrested again later in life.
“Once a student is arrested, they’re less likely to graduate and more likely to be involved in the justice system later on,” Nance says. “It’s traumatic for these kids, and some of them don’t recover.”
The National Association of School Resource Officers, however, disputes the notion that the presence of police officers in schools leads to more students being arrested. NASRO Executive Director Mo Canady points to numbers from the U.S. Department of Justice showing that the number of juvenile arrests between 1994 and 2009 dropped almost 50% while SROs in schools increased.
“There’s no way law enforcement referrals can be up if SROs are doing the job the right and way and building relationships,” Canady says, adding that the officers’ overall mission is to “bridge the gap between law enforcement and youth.”
“Numbers [for juvenile arrests] are down overall, so how are we getting so much criticism for putting kids in jail if numbers are so dramatically down like that?” Canady says. “I have never said that we deserve all the credit for that, but we deserve some of it.”
There may be issues of training in the officers who have been in the spotlight lately; Canady says that neither South Carolina’s Fields nor the officer involved in arresting Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas high schooler who made a clock that officials thought was a bomb, were trained by NASRO, as some are. “That’s not the way we train our officers,” he says.
Schools have often reacted to mass shootings like those at Columbine or Sandy Hook by bringing in police, in part because it’s the one tangible way administrators can show that they’re attempting to make their school safer. But the question now may be whether national incidents like the arrest in South Carolina will lead to schools rethinking the role of school resource officers altogether.
“I hope the nation will now reconsider whether or not it’s a good thing to have police officers stationed in schools,” Nance says. “Is this the appropriate response to developing safe climates?”

 http://time.com/4093517/south-carolina-school-police-ben-fields/

resource officer

By SHELBY ASHLINE
Recorder Staff

Monday, October 03, 2016

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NORTHFIELD — For Igor Komerzan, being a school resource officer means more than just enforcing the law. He also acts as a counselor, an educator, a traffic director, a participant in gym class, a lunch buddy and even a soccer coach.
Komerzan, known by the students at Pioneer Valley Regional School as “Officer K,” started as the school district’s first resource officer on Aug. 22. Though some parents and staff initially expressed resistance to the idea, Massachusetts mandates all school districts employ at least one school resource officer.
Since then, however, Komerzan said, students, parents and staff have had the chance to get to know him and understand his responsibilities.
The majority of the Pioneer community has been very supportive during his first month on the job, Komerzan said. He described how students often bring him coffee and doughnuts, and how the senior class is working to decorate his office.
A day in the life Before and after school, Komerzan oversees traffic flow and ensures drivers comply with the speed limit in the schools parking and drop-off areas.

“There’s designated areas for student drop off, but people weren’t really following those,” he said, explaining that he helps direct people to the proper areas.
Throughout the day, he visits classrooms, participating in activities with the students such as floor hockey in gym class. He has given in-class presentations about arrest procedures, constitutional rights, with future plans to present on how to write a police report and to make a brochure about social media safety.
He also spends time in the cafeteria.
“I try to be there for all three (lunch periods) just because there’s the most kids together,” he said. “I get to know them and eat lunch with them.”
On Monday through Thursday, Komerzan oversees the 16 players on the girls middle school soccer team as their new coach.
“We’re having a blast,” Komerzan said, adding that it’s a great way for him to get to know the middle school students and their parents.
Curbing misconceptionsBut Komerzan said there are still misconceptions about his responsibilities, and that he has received numerous phone calls from parents expressing their concern about recent student vehicle searches.
According to Superintendent Ruth Miller and Northfield Police Chief Robert Leighton, a school only needs to have reasonable suspicion of finding drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, weapons or other items not allowed on school property in order to conduct a search of a student’s backpack, locker, vehicle or person. Reasonable suspicion is a lower threshold than probable cause, which police officers need to conduct a search, making the school within its rights.
However, Komerzan, as a police officer, cannot conduct the searches.
“School rules are school rules and I don’t enforce those,” he said. Rather, he enforces laws, so when one student was found to have less than an ounce of marijuana, the civil infraction was referred to Komerzan.
A school resourceKomerzan is also there for students as a law-related counselor, and has helped them work through problems at home. He gave the example of one student who sought help for a parent struggling with drug abuse. Komerzan was able to recommend court-mandated treatment and advised the student of how to complete the necessary paperwork.
Now that he has settled into his new role at Pioneer, Komerzan hopes to start visiting the district’s four elementary schools on a regular basis. After he takes a class from Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 that will teach him how to pass on knowledge about drugs, alcohol, bullying, violence and personal safety to children, Komerzan will implement the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program at each school.

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Middle School Football

Hi Everyone

Middle school football has a 3:30 game in Turners at the High School today . Family and friend's if you are able to go and support them  head out ! Remember these boy will soon be PVRS  new and upcoming players .

                                                     GO PANTHERS

Ware trims sloppy Pioneer

BY CRAIG RILEY
For the Recorder

Sunday, October 02, 2016

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NORTHFIELD — Ware High School used rugged defense, a bruising running attack and timely passing to hand Pioneer Valley Regional School its first defeat of the year, 14-0, in a Tri-County League football contest Saturday afternoon.
On what was a cold, wet and blustery day, mistakes on offense — including four turnovers and the inability to finish drives — doomed the host Panthers.
“Turnovers were a factor, and not finishing drives were a factor,” said Pioneer coach Paul Worth. “I think the biggest difference was that we are young and inexperienced and they are older and more experienced. When they needed to make a play, they did. When we needed to make a play, we struggled.”
Things started off on a positive note for Pioneer (2-1, 0-1 TCL), which kicked off to the Indians to begin the game. The Panther defense dropped running back Hunter Millier for a 5-yard loss on the first play from scrimmage and then successfully defended two pass attempts, forcing a quick three-and-out.
Pioneer’s Alex Tyson then returned the Indians’ punt 24 yards to Ware’s 38 yard-line, setting Pioneer up with a short field. The Ware defense responded by stopping the Panthers for 1-yard losses on their first two carries, bringing up a third and 12 from the Ware 40.

Tyson, who is also the Panthers’ quarterback, dropped back to pass and was picked off by Ware’s Jeff Desjardins, who returned the ball to the Pioneer 33. That was the first of three Tyson picks.
The visiting Indians capitalized quickly on he mistake, as Millier got his legs going, and had back-to-back 9-yard runs to get the drive going. On a third and 11 from the 26, the Indians struck paydirt when junior signal-caller Ryan Johnson found tight end Jayson Jamilowski streaking down the right sideline for the touchdown with 4:51 remaining in the first quarter. The extra point was good, and the lead was 7-0.

Trouble found the Panthers again on their next possession. After four straight runs gained Pioneer 28 yards and put it back in Ware territory at the 47, Tyson was again picked off, throwing down the middle of the field with Ware coming down with the ball at the 5, where the Indians offense took over.
Any hopes the Panthers had of getting the ball back quickly with good field position were immediately dashed when the elusive Millier took the ball on a sweep to the left and rambled 70 yards down the left side. Six plays later, just under a minute into the second quarter, Johnson found a receiver in the end zone again, hitting Jake Crevier in the right corner with an 8-yard strike. The extra point was again good, and Ware (2-1, 1-0 TCL) was up 14-0.
The Panthers appeared to have something going on the ensuing drive, which featured 10 plays and saw Pioneer get to the Ware 25 with a first and 10, knocking on the door. An incomplete pass and losses of 5 and 10 yards on second and third down made it fourth and 25 in a hurry, however, and the Panthers were forced to punt. A solid defensive stand got the ball back for the Panthers, but their woes continued after a fake punt on fourth and five set up a first down near midfield with just over a minute to play in the half. From there, the Panthers fumbled the ball away on the next play, giving the Indians possession and keeping the score at 14-0 at the break.
Pioneer got the ball to begin the third quarter, starting at its own 47 after another nice Tyson return. The Panthers proceeded to move the ball seemingly at will, and after nine plays, eight of them runs along with a 19-yard Tyson completion to wideout Jake Wallace, they were looking at a third and goal at the 2. Mistakes again proved costly, as a 5-yard false-start penalty backed the Panthers up to the 7. Two straight runs were then stuffed, and again Pioneer came up empty.
The Panthers possessed the ball just one more time and again had success moving the ball downfield, going 46 yards on 12 plays to the Indians’ 34 before Ware’s third interception of the day sealed the victory for the visitors.
Still, Pioneer’s first-year Coach Worth was happy with his team’s effort, saying, “There was no quit out there. I’m proud of the way we played today against a very good team.”
Pioneer next faces another tough league foe when it travels to Palmer Friday night at 7 for a Panthers vs. Panthers showdown.