Field hockey team in playoff hunt
      Nantucket kept its playoff hopes alive in two home games this week, fighting the Vineyard to a 2-2 tie last Wednesday afternoon and turning back Sturgis, 4-0, on Saturday. A loss to either team would have knocked the Lady Whalers out of the postseason, and they faced must win or tie games at Wareh...
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Whalers score twice at Holbrook
BY STEVE SHEPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      The good news is the Whalers eclipsed their scoring total for the year and won the fourth quarter at Holbrook Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, the Bulldogs had a 32-0 lead at the time.
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Soccer squads endure tough losses
BY LINDAWILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      It was hard for Nantucket to eke out a win last week on the soccer pitch, with both the girls' and boys' varsity and JV teams dropping two games each. The one bright spot on the week was the continued victory march of the boys' and girls' middle school teams, with each nailing its opponent to the...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
PING PONG BALL BIRD - THE SEQUEL
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      It was an early April morning near Atlanta when I first heard this song. I was with my Georgia birding mentor, Terry Moore, walking along an area of fallow farm fields bordered by big loblolly pines. From about 50 yards away I heard a single downwhistled note, repeated more and more rapidly unti...
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Molloy's team named to the hall of fame
      Former Nantucket High School athletic director Jack Molloy, a senior defensive back on the 1977 Boston College High School football team, will be honored by Boston College High School on Tuesday, Nov. 20, when the team will be inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Clubbers club Vineyard
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      Supported by a large home turnout at the high school field, the Boys and Girls Club junior high football team improved to 3-1 on the strength of a hard fought, 14-8, victory over Martha's Vineyard last Wednesday afternoon. The Clubbers played well on both sides of the ball, with no better example...
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TIGHT LINES
with Andrew Spencer
      DON'T YOU JUST LOVE A BARGAIN? Police in Pittsburgh, Penn., were recently called to a Giant Eagle grocery store. It seems that a patron of the store was becoming somewhat irate, and all the staff's attempts at assuaging his anger had failed, so they were forced to resort to drastic measures an...
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TIME OUT
AMANDA LEVY Junio Golf Captain
BY SAM TOOLE
      Golf has had another great season this year and are the reigning champs of the Lighthouse Conference. Junior captain Amanda Levy has held the team down the number one spot with very solid play against an array of tough competitors.
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