Softball team looks forward to weekend "homestand"
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      After being on the road the last few games, the Lady Whalers are ready to spend the weekend at home with upcoming games Friday against Provincetown and Saturday afternoon with Nauset. They are also hoping for some decent weather for a change, as rain washed out last weekend's contests with Chatham and South Shore Vo-Tech.
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
THE BELLOWING BULL OF THE MARSH
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      Just a few Sundays ago, 45 enthusiastic birders, including a dozen from Massachusetts Audubon in Ipswich, clustered along a fence rail on the Polpis Road at Folger's Marsh in the near freezing northwest wind hoping for a glimpse of a bird. Actually we were hoping for three different ones but any would be good.
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Spring soccer starts season with banner weekend
      For the third year in a row the Nantucket Student Soccer Association spring travel teams opened under rainy, raw and windy conditions. Seven of the nine teams, were in action, with all but one coming away successful.
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WHITEY'S ALL-RIGHTY
      My brother Arnold recently alerted me to a Chicago Tribune article that featured a gentleman by the name of William Lamar Stoner. You all might remember the ill-fated Mr. Stoner, who had travelled to Arkansas - and, with the possible exception of newspaper executives' offspring, Arkansas is usually trouble - in order to procure some grass-eating carp. Mr.
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From the sidelines
      DOLPHINS CLOSE SEASON WITH AWARDS BANQUET Miles Geddes was named Swimmer of the Year and Ainsley Ellis and Wyatt Leske received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Dolphins end of the season awards banquet held on March 31.
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SOME PLAYERS IN PINSTRIPES TO PONDER
by Steve Sheppard Independent Sports Editor
      Is it me, or is everything speeding up these days? First we have the earliest Easter in 95 years, and then a ridiculously early Opening Day. March 25? What's up with that? We've all been looking forward to spring, but isn't this pushing the season a bit much?
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THIS WEEK IN SPORTS
      WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 NHS sailing at Dennis-Yarmouth, 3 p.m. THURSDAY, APRIL 10 Girls' lacrosse vs. Bourne, 3 p.m. Boys' lacrosse at Bourne, 3:30 p.m. JV softball vs. Sturgis, 3:45 p.m. Girls' JV lacrosse vs. Bourne, 4:15 p.m.
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