Vineyard teams closed out the month of September with several tough competitions in the Eastern Athletic Conference; league rival Bishop Feehan proved a particularly formidable opponent. Football, both soccer teams and field hockey play on home turf this week; be sure to come out and support the Vineyarders!

The Vineyard fields will be lit up tonight as the football team takes on Coyle-Cassidy and again tomorrow when boys’ soccer looks for revenge against the Nauset squad that handed them their first loss. Girls’ soccer will also be home this weekend, playing Scituate at noon on Saturday.

By IVY ASHE

The Vineyard fields will be lit up tonight as the football team takes on Coyle-Cassidy and again tomorrow when boys’ soccer looks for revenge against the Nauset squad that handed them their first loss. Girls’ soccer will also be home this weekend, playing Scituate at noon on Saturday.

Football

The Vineyarders dropped their second game of the season Saturday, falling 44-22 to an experienced St. Mary’s squad.

Football returns to the Vineyard gridiron tomorrow at 1 p.m. as the Vineyarders take on St. Mary’s on their home turf.

Classes started only yesterday at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, but the sports teams are well into the fall season, with a full week of play already under their belts.

The girls of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School soccer team were on their practice field, arranged in a circle and doing leg lifts while holding a soccer ball between their feet. Beyond the trees at the far end of the field, the sun crept into the sky, casting a warm orange light on the team. With what seemed like a collective exhale, the team finished the warm-up exercise and prepared for the next one.

The ribbons were very important at the time, Eleanor Neubert recalled. She would show her 4-H calf (later, her 4-H cow), her rabbits and her hens, and she’d plant vegetables in her plot of the family garden so she could enter those in the fair, too. One year she competed in a horse show but found that wasn’t nearly as fun as the other activities.