Sports
The Eric B. MacLean Memorial Tournament took place last weekend at the Martha’s Vineyard arena, with the Bantam squad taking home the championship trophy and the Peewees finishing third overall.
No matter what level of sport is being played, the adage remains the same: Defense wins championships. And it was on the strength of shot-blocking and rebound-grabbing, as much as their own shots themselves, that the Edgartown girls held off the West Tisbury squad 41-18 Tuesday night in the middle school basketball championship game at the regional high school gym.
The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks have announced two new additions to their 2012 season roster. Ryan Brockett, a left-handed pitcher from St. Mary’s College in California, will join the wooden bat collegiate baseball team this summer. Mr. Brockett’s primary pitch is a fastball that tops 80 miles per hour. He joins Yale University shortstop Cale Hanson. A Texas native, Mr. Hanson last summer played for the Kamuela Paniolos team in Hawaii.
In the depths of winter, more than 400 sailors gathered last weekend to talk about sailing — much of it centered on the waters of Martha’s Vineyard — at the 50th anniversary annual meeting of the Catboat Association in Groton, Conn. Sailors attended from as far south as Florida and from as far north as Maine.
Edgartown selectmen this week granted an aquaculture license to Jeremy Scheffer to grow oysters on a one-acre space in Katama Bay. The bottom grant marked the 11th of 12 licenses that the town can give out to shellfishermen.
Shellfish constable Paul Bagnell said the shellfish committee had approved Mr. Scheffer’s request, and he remarked that a growing family of oyster farmers on the bay are working well together.
New Nutrition
Josh and Prudence Levy of Edgartown are the new owners of Vineyard Nutrition. After 24 years, Denise Guest has sold her practice to focus on her Be My Guest Granola product line development.
The Levys recently moved back to the Island to raise their two young boys close to family. “It has always been our dream to own a private nutrition counseling practice together. Buying Vineyard Nutrition has brought us back to family and community and the kind of life we were yearning for,” Mr. Levy said.