Softballers win again
Lady Whalers turn back Division 1 Falmouth
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      Olivia Hull pitched a one-hitter and struck out eight Falmouth batters Sunday as the Lady Whalers improved to 8-0 on the season. Nantucket overturned Falmouth, 7-1, in what has almost become a rarity this year - a complete, 7-inning game.
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NHS sailing team girds for postseason
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      Don't let the 1-8 record fool you. NHS sailing coach Nick Judson says the Whalers have a very good chance of making the postseason this year. "We have a very good shot of getting to a .500 record (and qualifying)," he said. "There are a couple of teams we'll be seeing for a...
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Boys have late game surge against Cohasset
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Nantucket scored three goals and held defending Division 3 champion Cohasset scoreless in the final period at home Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, the damage had already been done by that point, as Cohasset surged to an early lead in the contest and never relinquished it.
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GIRLS LACROSSE FALLS TO COHASSET
     
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Soccer action aplenty over the weekend
BY LINDAWILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      All eleven NSSA soccer teams were in action this past weekend, earning seven victories. Both U8 boys' teams soundly trounced their opponents. Though the teams are technically in boys' divisions, both have outstanding girls playing.
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Baseball team evens out at 4-4
      With back-to-back victories over New England Christian Academy and Provincetown, the Whalers' baseball team took its 4-3 record to Mashpee Sunday, only to see its winning streak snapped in a tight contest won by Mashpee, 3-2.
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TIGHT LINES
OPEN WIDE
with Andrew Spencer
      As a teenager, like many teenagers before me, I had to have braces. Big, ugly silver things cemented to my teeth for three years, followed by years of wearing a retainer. The orthodontist called it a "rite of passage." I called it something not fit for a family publication. ...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
SAVANNAH SPARROW
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      Here is a frustrating bird for any beginning birder. Walking around Nantucket's grasslands you are subtly aware of it, a tiny brown bird singing from a grass stalk. The song is not memorable - hardly a song at all. As you try to approach, it drops down from its perch and di...
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From the
      IRON TEAMS RELAY DATE SET The 27th annual Iron Teams Relay will be held Sunday, June 3, and will benefit the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Nantucket. Tom First and Tom Scott are again presenting sponsors of the race, this time at the helm of their new endeavors since sellin...
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