Sports
Conference All-Stars
Thirty Vineyard athletes were named to the Eastern Athletic Conference all-star teams for their respective sports this season.
Girls’ lacrosse: seniors Shelby Ferry, April Hargy and Madison Hughes; juniors Alayna Hutchinson, Jennie Lindland and Taylor Poggi; and sophomore Isabel Smith.
Boys’ lacrosse: seniors Nelson Dickson, Charlie Everett, Colby Gouldrup and Conor Smith.
Junior Maggie Riseborough cemented her legacy as one of the best field athletes in Massachusetts, as she turned in a sixth-place finish in the shot put at the annual Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association All-State meet last Saturday with a throw of 36’7.75”.
The girls' tennis team is locked in a semifinals showdown against Cohasset, as play continues well into the evening. The winner of the match advances to the finals of the MIAA Division 3 South Section tournament. As of 6:40 p.m., the score was tied 1-1 with three matches yet to finish.
Both doubles matches went to three sets and lasted over three and a half hours, with Julia Cooper and Annabelle Hackney winning 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 and Alyssa Adler and Dylan Brockmeyer falling in three sets, 7-5, 3-6, 1-6.
Scholar.
Athlete.
Entrepreneur.
Volunteer.
Fisherman.
Chef.
Pianist.
Wait, that last one hasn’t happened yet.
But regional high school senior William Stewart has been thinking about teaching himself to play the piano for a while now, and this summer, before he packs his bags and heads off to Harvard in the fall, might be the perfect time to learn.
The kid had forgotten his shoes. He was a co-captain of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School tennis team and the team was playing one of its final contests of the season, an away match against Duxbury. He had no choice. He asked head coach Ned Fennessy the only question possible: What size shoe do you wear?
Last Sunday’s annual Little League All-Star games kicked off by paying tribute to distinguished players of a non-baseball sort: in honor of Memorial Day, six veterans (Ted Morgan, Gene DeFelice, Woody Williams, David Khan, Ed Rodgers and Zeke Vought) threw out the first pitches, with Mr. Vought pitching to son Cris. Mr. Rodgers closed out the opening ceremonies with bugle renditions of the National Anthem, the songs of each of the Armed Forces divisions, and Taps before kicking off the Minor League game with a rousing Take Me Out To The Ballgame.