CAPIZZO, WHALERS PREPARE FOR 2007 CAMPAIGN
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      "Heck, no," he said between puffs on his pipe when asked if he thought that when he arrived on Nantucket back in 1964 he'd still be coaching football. "I didn't think I was going to last a week." But his love of the game was infectious, and he turned little Nantucket into a powerhouse.
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IOD championships
Sailing with Team San Francisco
BY ANDREW SPENCER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      Nantucket Sound this week will play host to the International One Design World Championships. Teams from as far away as Norway and Bermuda have come to test their skills here, racing against the best that IOD racing has to offer.
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Field hockey season gets underway
      The Lady Whalers opened the 2007 season on the road against Medfield last Friday but were turned back, 2-0. Playing at home Sunday against Cohasset, Nantucket put a goal on the scoreboard but dropped a close contest, 2-1. The team travels to Mashpee today before weekend home games against Durfee ...
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Tight Lines
SLAM SEASON
      There's a bunch of you people out there, and you know who you are. You're a bunch of nay-sayers, you are. You're out there calling yours truly negative, bitter and unhappy. Young Matt Liddle still bandies about that whole unfortunate "curmudgeon" thing from time to time, but we'll forgive him due ...
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From the Sidelines
FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS WITH JV CONTEST
      Nantucket's junior varsity officially began the 2007 football season at Mashpee last Thursday. Despite scoring the first points of the game, penalties hurt the young Whalers who lost a close one, 12-8. Freshman Larry Woolfolk returned the game's opening kickoff 80 yards to start the year with a f...
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COACH'S CORNER
      This week The Nantucket Independent introduces Coach's Corner, where our own Coach Vito Capizzo - and the opposing coach or AD - give their outlooks on this week's game. This week: The Whalers at Southeastern Regional High School. Game Time: 1 p.m.
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
AN ODD COUPLE - FELIX & OSCAR?
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      This was quite a thought-provoking scene. I was kayaking on Ainger Creek on a recent trip to Southwest Florida. We were coasting along with the outgoing tide, past lovely, well manicured homes, and came upon this pair, somehow coexisting as each did its own thing on the expanse of green lawn that ...
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Yates Gas Captured Wood Bat League Championship
     MICHAEL GALVIN/The Independent Yates Gas captured the wood bat league championship last week, taking two out of three games from Toscana. Nantucket Whalers ace Eric Lowell (above) was the winning pitcher in the game three finale that saw Yates edge Toscana, 6-5. Lowell's performance mirrored that of...
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Boys' soccer squad opens season with loss, tie
BY LINDAWILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      The Nantucket boys' soccer squad opened its fall season with back-to-back home games last weekend against two tough opponents. "Playing back-to-back is a hard way to open the season but I knew from the scrimmages that they would come together," according to coach Rich Brannigan, who has been with ...
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