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Bruins fans unable to attend last Sunday’s victory parade through the streets of Boston will be treated to a celebration of their own this weekend, when the Stanley Cup makes an appearance in Edgartown.
The nearly three-foot-tall trophy arrives Saturday, said Edgartown police officer Dave Rossi, fresh from its pedestal at the 2011 National Hockey League draft in St. Paul, Minn.
On Wednesday night, as the puck dropped for the third period of Game Seven in the Stanley Cup Finals, the streets of Oak Bluffs were, for the most part, quiet.
And then there were eight.
Eight tennis teams left playing in the MIAA Team Tournament as the section finals got underway last Friday afternoon. Eight teams, the best in the state, fighting to extend their season at least a few more days — maybe even an extra week if they made it all the way to the state final.
The Vineyard boys’ tennis team turned in their strongest performance of the season Friday afternoon in Barnstable, but could not overcome the rackets of Cape Cod Academy, falling 3-2 in the finals of the MIAA South Section Tournament.
The last teams standing in postseason play, girls’ and boys’ tennis, split their victories in the state tournament this week.
According to his teammates, Matt Stone, goalie for the Vineyard Youth Soccer under-14 team, has an eye for finding four-leaf clovers.