BOOSTER CLUB UNSUNG HEROES OF ISLAND ATHLETICS
by Steve Sheppard
     SPORTS It began about 40 years ago as a way to help a new coach and his
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On to the next round!
BY LINDAWILLIAMS
     In what has been a storybook season so far for the Nantucket varsity boys' soccer team, another chapter was added on Sunday. After clinching a playoff berth just after halfway through the season, the 7th seeded local squad earned a bye in the first round last week and then hosted Brockton's tenth-ra
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Dolphins dominate Relay Carnival
     FINAL SCORE + Nantucket 222 + Marshfield 214 + Willy's East 124 + Sandwich 110
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Even in loss, varsity field hocky has positive finish
BY LINDAWILLAIMS
     Nantucket's varsity girls' field hockey team had to fight through the last few games of the regular season just to get into the post season show and did just what they had to do. But, perhaps the train just ran out of gas in the preliminary round against a strong Seekonk team last Wednesday.
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O'Mara, Whalers run over Tri County
BY JACK MOLLOY
     Senior fullback John O'Mara scored three touchdowns to lead Nantucket to a 32-8 victory in its final road game of the season at Tri County on Saturday.
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A tie is a good thing for girls soccer squad
BY LINDAWILLAIMS
     Last Halloween Tuesday, the team faced Mashpee, the Cape nemesis that soundly trounced Nantucket in the second week of play way back in September, 8-0, for what would be the worst loss of the season. Nantucket had something to prove before a home crowd to end the season against a Mashpee squad that
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Football Gam goes back to the beginning
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
     The story's been told so many times it's almost legendary - how in 1964 Vito Capizzo arrived on an island he knew nothing about and in three years turned around a faltering football program, and that now, forty three years later, he's the third winningest coach in Massachusetts history and the state
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
     DEEP PURPLE - OR IS IT GREEN? Afew weeks ago our Sunday morning birders were staring intently through binoculars at this week's bird and an argument broke out. "Look at the purple head on that duck!" "No you are wrong. The head is green." "Purple." "GREEN!" Before fisticuffs broke out, a birding
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TIGHT LINES
with Andrew Spencer
     BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEP Another Junior Miss pageant has come and gone, and by all accounts it was a tremendous success. When I was first introduced to the Nantucket Junior Miss program, I made an error in judgment. I know it might surprise some of you out there to learn that I have, in fact, done such
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