Sports
The Vineyard boys hockey team is firing on all cylinders to start the season, and Nate Averill notched his 100th career goal, scoring four against Dennis-Yarmouth.
Island fishermen expressed disappointment with federal fishing regulators after they declined to enact stronger protections last week for the struggling striped bass stock.
Six gymnasts at Island Gymnastics recently traveled to Pocasset for the team’s first off-Island meet in five years.
Winter sports are back in action at the high school as the Vineyard’s student athletes ramp up for basketball, hockey, indoor track, wrestling and swimming.
Last year’s bay scallop season ended with mixed results, but fishermen had a reason to be hopeful. In the water there was a large amount of immature scallops that were too young to be harvested.
After missing a game-winning field goal with two seconds to go in the fourth quarter, the Vineyarders were unable to capitalize in the overtime period, losing 22-14.