Sports
BOSTON — The Vineyard boys’ basketball team’s successful season came to a close Saturday, as the team came back from an early 16-point deficit but fell just short, losing 70-65 to undefeated Wareham in the division 3 south section championship game at UMass Boston.
The loss also ended a dream year for all four of the high school’s winter teams. The boys’ and girls’ basketball and hockey teams all made their post-season tournaments. Boys’ basketball was the last one left playing until Saturday.
Tops at Tennis Center
Last weekend, the Vineyard Tennis Center enjoyed its membership championships. Doubles teams competed in men’s, women’s, and mixed to claim boasting rights as the best team in the club.
Sally Anderson and Mary Breslauer kept their first seed reputation intact besting Cathy Lattanzi and Kelly Hess 6-3, 6-2 in the finals.
The Men’s doubles draw was captured by veterans Doug Cooper and Paul Adler as they outlasted Skip Dostal and Steve Mussel 6-2, 6-4.
Drug Abuse Forum
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and the Youth Task Force will host a community forum on prescription drug abuse at 5 p.m. on March 21 at the regional high school library conference room.
Guest speaker Dr. Charles Reznikoff, a world-renowned expert on addiction medicine at the University of Michigan heads the agenda, along with a panel that will include a pharmacist and representatives from the police, hospitals, the task force and community services and the treatment community.
With growing evidence the Norton Point breach is appearing to close — lessening the current running through the harbor—there is buzz on the waterfront that the summer ahead will be easier for a lot of visiting boaters, particularly the local fleet of day sailboats.
It’s nine in the morning on a recent Saturday, and if you look closely at the group on the ice of the Martha’s Vineyard Arena, you can see the future.
Their jerseys, helmets, pads, and skates are pint-size — as are the players themselves, as if a full-size hockey player was put in the dryer for too long. Their knees wobble and their legs splay out as they come to slow, careful stops. They hold their sticks uncertainly, and their swats at round plastic balls more often than not throw them off balance and onto their rears.
Ernie May Named Coach
The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks have signed Ernie May as head coach for the 2012 baseball season, general manager Jerry Murphy announced this week.
The Sharks will be running personal and group clinics this summer that will be supported by the players and Mr. May’s coaching staff, starting with free team clinics on June 10 at three different fields on the Vineyard for the six teams in Little League and for each team in the newly-formed Junior League.