Swim teams victors over Oliver Ames
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      i s l Both Whalers swim teams were overall winners at Oliver Ames High School last Thursday, with the boys cruising to an 87-52 triumph and the girls taking a close one, 92-83. Justine Paradis returned to the team by breaking her own school record on the one-meter board by 11 points. Her total on ...
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Lady Whalers employ a balanced attack to go 3-1
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      Balance is the word for the Whalers girls’ basketball team this year, as the team has gotten off to a 3-1 start thanks to good ball movement, a focus on hitting the open player, and patience. All three have been utilized with good results as the team takes time out for the holidays.
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Boys earn holiday breather after three straight wins
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      After three straight victories, capped off by Saturday’s 65-43 takeout of South Shore Tech, the Whalers boys’ basketball squad can enjoy a Christmas break before play resumes a week from Thursday at the Cape and Islands tournament. For coach Beau Almodobar, the season opening 3- 1 record is his be...
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From the s i d e l i n e s
      CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT DEC. 30 The Nantucket Bird Club calls upon volunteers on Nantucket Island to join birders across the western hemisphere and participate in Audubon's longest-running wintertime tradition, the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC), to be held Saturday, December 30.
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Whalers hockey team wins in exciting finish
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      The first game of the season was a barn burner for the Whalers hockey team as three goals were scored by both teams in the last twoand a-half minutes and freshman Taylor Thayer put it away on a power play goal with 36 seconds left in the contest. Nantucket overcame the Dennis-Yarmouth threat, 4-3.
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Books for the sports fan
by Steve Sheppard
      The best thing about sports is that you don’t have to play them to enjoy them. Don’t believe me? Then who’s that on the couch every Sunday afternoon? Apart from spectating, we also enjoy reading about sports — which is probably why newspapers devote whole sections to it. When the weather outside t...
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