Golf team takes Lighthouse crown for third straight year
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      The Nantucket golf team repeated as Lighthouse Conference champions by turning back Cape Cod Academy last Tuesday, 32-22. The win propelled the Whalers to a 6-1 league record, one win better than Cape Cod Academy. Nantucket and Cape Cod Academy sported identical 5-1 conference records entering th...
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Lady Whalers look for victory today against Vineyard
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      Awin this afternoon will bring them that much closer to the playoffs. The Whalers field hockey team has only one loss in its last six games, going 3-1-2 in that period to improve its record to 5-7-2.
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NHS soccer girls seek playoff berth
BY LINDAWILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      The girls' varsity team played last Wednesday at Sturgis, trouncing them, 6-1. Grace MacLellan scored the first goal to break the ice, Justine Paradis notched a hat trick and Shantel Hanniford scored two more times. Team member Aileen Fredericks was happy with the results.
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Boys' soccer squad wins two, loses one
BY LINDAWILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      The varsity boys' soccer team got back on the pitch last Thursday and faced Lighthouse Conference foe, second place Cape Cod Academy. Nantucket beat CCA for the second time by a 1-0 score on a goal by Carl Stevens off an assist by Sebastian "Joe" McFarlane. The win moves Nantucket closer to securi...
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CPS soccer squads defeat Wixon
      The CPS boys and girls soccer teams played Wixon Middle School last Friday, and both teams continued with their winning ways. The boys stomped, 7-2. Scoring was spread out among Ben Daniels (2), Chris Sylvia (2), and Nick Larrabee (1).
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COACH'S CORNER
NANTUCKET COACH VITO CAPIZZO
      This week's opponent: • At Avon/Holbrook (4-1 overall, 2-1 league) • Game time: 1 p.m.
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Whalers score but can't upset West Bridgewater
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      The Whalers came out firing against the Wildcats, but it was the visitors who prevailed in the end, 34-6. The Whalers got the ball first in the contest, and after a fourth down pass into the end zone fell incomplete and West Bridgewater took over on downs, Nantucket got the ball right back in goo...
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Whalers JVs soldier on despite low numbers
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      Nantucket is known for old-time, hardnosed football, and the junior varsity is living up to that reputation with most players seeing action on both sides of the ball. "We're playing with 14 kids," veteran Whalers junior varsity football coach Dennis Caron noted. "I don't think I've ever had that ...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
EVER DROP A PING PONG BALL?
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      Ibet you have. Think of the sound that it makes as it bounces on the table. The rate continues to increase, slow to fast, until it's almost a vibrating whir at the end. This gives you an idea of the rhythm of the song of this week's bird.
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THIS WEEK IN SPORTS
      WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17 Boys and Girls Club football vs. Martha's Vineyard, 3:45 p.m. NHS field hockey vs. Martha's Vineyard, 4 p.m. JV field hockey vs. Martha's Vineyard, 5:30 p.m. NHS boys' soccer at Martha's Vineyard, 4 p.m.
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FIVE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER
      So this football season hasn't quite panned out the way I was hoping. Yeah, I know, USC lost, which always makes me happy, but there's still that pesky pair of losses that Texas was sporting going into last weekend's games that kind of overshadows everything else.
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From the Sidelines
      BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB TEAM HOSTS VINEYARD TODAY Nantucket's Boys and Girls Club junior high squad will square off against its Martha's Vineyard counterparts at the high school field this afternoon around 3:45 p.m. The clubbers return home after a 16- 6 victory over Nauset at Nauset last week, b...
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