Sports
The best-of-three playoff series between the Sharks and the Torrington Titans continues tonight at home on the Vineyard. First pitch is at 7 p.m. If the Sharks win tonight, they will lock up a spot in the second round of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League playoffs.
David Melly, 21, of Newton won the Chilmark Road Race with a time of 15:43.31. Sheridan Wilbur, 17, of North Smithfield, R.I., won first place for the women with a time of 18:24.55.
With two games remaining in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League summer season, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks have secured a top spot in their division and are second overall in the league.
The best sports stories are the ones that toe the line of improbability — the ones that unfold in real life without direction yet seem scripted in their narrative, as though they were written for a Hollywood studio.
Audrey Egger has had five first-place finishes in Vineyard duplicate play this summer: twice when partnered with Miles Jaffe and once apiece with Barbara Besse, Barbara McLagan and me.
Call it an Instant Regatta. A record 25 boats competed in last Thursday's evening race, eclipsing the record of 22 set last year.