The girls soccer team lost 3-0 to fourth seeded Norwell in Sunday's second round playoff game, finishing a strong season with 12 wins, 2 ties and 6 losses.

Fifty years after being exchange students at the regional high school, Claudio Mac-Lean and Daniel Poletto came back to the Island this week to see their old host families and reminisce about helping start the high school's soccer team.

The Vineyarders won the Island Cup for the second year in a row, with a dynamic 24-21 win over the Whalers. The boys and girls soccer teams were also victorious Saturday, each winning an inaugural Golden Anchor trophy.

Vineyard sports teams travel to Nantucket this weekend for the Island Cup and the new "Battle in the Atlantic" tradition.

Island Cup bragging rights will not be the only trophy on the line this Saturday when Vineyard sports teams travel to Nantucket. This year the field hockey and boys and girls soccer teams will do battle for the Golden Anchor trophies.

As the harvesting season for bay scallops gets underway, Island fishermen and shellfish wholesalers are readying themselves for their annual gamble in a fishery with a reputation for uncertainty.