Sports
The Martha’s Vineyard youth soccer preseason is off to a busy start, with the under 12 division one boys’ team participating in the annual U.S. Youth Soccer Workshop in Boston last month. The team took part in a demonstration on defending principles. U.S. national team mens’ coach Jurgen Klinsmann provided the keynote speech for the symposium.
In The Fish Bowl
Atlantic sturgeon, an ancient fish that once swam in local waters and has since become scarce, has been listed by the federal government as an endangered species, setting in motion a long-term effort to restore the fish to previous levels.
Early this week David Damroth was strolling Zack’s Cliffs in Aquinnah and gazed across the gulf to Noman’s Land when he saw an eruption from the water a mile and a half out. It was a double spout, a trademark of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. For the next 45 minutes he watched as at least three animals romped about the surface.
In a historic weekend for Vineyard sports, both the girls’ hockey and basketball squads punched tickets to the playoffs last Saturday afternoon, marking the first time in the regional high school’s history that all four winter varsity teams will compete in the postseason. The boys’ teams qualified for the state tournament earlier this month.
Matt Mincone, head coach of the boys’ varsity hockey team at the regional high school, was named Coach of the Year by the South Shore Chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association. Mr. Mincone has been part of the boys’ hockey program since 1998. He became head coach in 2001.