Whaler girls, boys turn back Coyle-Cassidy swimmers
      Ainsley Ellis and Beau Garufiturned in state tournament-qualifying times as both boys and girls Whalers squads prevailed over visiting Coyle-Cassidy Saturday afternoon. The girls took their meet, 98-78, and the boys theirs, 112-46.
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Two team records fall during Dolphins meet with Sandwich
      The Dolphins hosted their first meet of the season Sunday afternoon and swamped Sandwich, 607-172. With 69 swimmers for Nantucket, versus 21 for the visitors, the Dolphins took 73 of 75 events. Two team records were broken during the meet. Miles Geddes broke the 50-yard backstroke record with a f...
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ERIC LOWELL
Junior Point Guard, Basketball
BY SAM TOOLE
      The boys' basketball team has started the season strong. An important member of the squad is junior point guard Eric Lowell, who brings speed and energy to the court and who has been playing since fifth grade at the Boys and Girls Club. While not shooting hoops he's either practicing baseball or h...
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NO RESOLUTIONS, BUT STORIES TO REMEMBER
by Steve Sheppard Independent Sports Editor
      This began as a typical New Year's column, one where I'd give my sports resolutions for 2008. I got as far as - Resolve to use up the blank pages in all my old notebooks before starting a new one - and then got stumped. I suppose I could have added: resolve to clean my desk, but I spent much o...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
ARE YOU PINING FOR A SISKIN?
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      This is one of those subtle, somewhat nondescript birds toward the back of your bird book. New birders are usually looking for the colorful or the dramatic. So a Pine Siskin is not the first bird they look for. When you first see one your thought might be, "What is wrong with that goldfinch that w...
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THIS WEEK IN SPORTS
      Wednesday, Jan. 9 • Whalers ice hockey at Bellingham, 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11 • Whalers ice hockey vs. Dennis-Yarmouth, 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 • NHS swimming and diving vs.
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GOING CRABBING
      Another new year is upon us, full of all sorts of promise for things to come. It's at this time of year that I like to look back on the past year and reflect on what I had intended to do via my New Year's resolutions, and see how I fared in that quest.
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NORTON SCORES TO STANCH SANDWICH SHUTOUT
      The Whalers club hockey team averted a shutout against Sandwich last Friday night when team captain Gaven Norton scored at the 4:24 mark of the third period on an assist from Gary Caruso. Sandwich won the game, 8-1. A large crowd came to watch the Whalers' first home contest of the season.
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From the sidelines
      NSSA annual meeting The annual meeting of the Nantucket Student Soccer Association is at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, in the Large Group Instruction Room at the high school. Changes to the bylaws will be considered for a vote of the membership present. All NSSA parents and other interested members of ...
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