Whalers earn tournament bid with P-town dispatch
      The Whalers will advance to the state tournament, thanks to Saturday's 92-21 drubbing of Provincetown, giving them their tenth victory of the season and an automatic tourney slot. After Wednesday's battle against West Bridgewater, the P-town game was an out and out rout for the home team, and Nant...
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JV boys turn back P-town
      Although Provincetown scored first, the Whalers boys' junior varsity basketball team took over from there to dunk the junior Fishermen at home Saturday, 41-9. Eight different players scored for Nantucket, with Carl Stevens leading the way with 10 points, Eddie Coffin contributing 8 points, Curran ...
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Swimmers, divers take several events in home meet
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      Justine Paradis keeps breaking her own record. For the second time this diving season, Paradis broke the Nantucket High School record she set this year in the 1-meter dive. On Sunday she scored 178.1, bettering her previous mark of 176.55. Her feat came in a meet with Coyle-Cassidy High School, w...
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Girls continue to win
One lone loss to date
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      With victories at home (against West Bridgewater) and away (at Provincetown), the Lady Whalers have run their record to 8-1, with the only loss to date recorded at West Bridgewater in the second game of the season. West Bridgewater came to the island last Wednesday to discover that the Whalers are...
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AWINNING FOREHAND
      Dennie Doran makes a return at the net during the "Bonnie Bell Battle of the Babes" tournament finals on Sunday. Doran and her paddle tennis partner Darcie Evans (right) went on to win their finals of the Consolation Round against their friendly rivals from Duxbury, Mass.
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
THE DUCK FROM 'DOM PEREGRINE - VERY COLD DUCK FOR DINNER'
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      Afew years ago I wrote about this duck from another perspective. I watched as one was ridden down from the sky in the talons of a Peregrine Falcon, thumping onto the beach. Immediately some Great Black-backed Gulls flew in to take away the falcon's prey and the Peregrine tried to fly away with the ...
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From the s i d e l i n e s
      SKATING FOR YOUTH HOCKEY Eight adult teams took part in the second annual Nantucket Blast Tournament last weekend to benefit Nantucket youth hockey. Teams were fielded in two divisions, with the leading team from each facing off in a championship game. Sponsors of the Great Point Division were: Is...
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TIGHT LINES
FISHING FOR INFORMATION
with Andrew Spencer
      Every once in a while, Shep (everyone's favorite sports editor) and I have what we like to call an editorial meeting. These meetings are pretty casual affairs, rarely announced in advance, and usually revolve around my doing something wrong.
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