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April 28 - May 4, 2005 Edition
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HIGHLIGHTS April 28, 2005 “Better be safe…” Ron Walsh, director of Boat Safe Martha’s Vineyard, announces the renewal of accreditation for his “Boating Safety Basics Course.” by the National Assn. of States Boating Law Administrators. An Edgartown resident, Mr. Walsh has been teaching boating classes for more than 10 years as a certified instructor with the Coast Guard Auxiliary. The 10-hour safety course will be held on Sundays, starting June 12. Massachusetts requires youths 12-15 years old to get a Safety Certificate in order to operate a powerboat without an adult aboard. The same certificate is also required for 16- and 17-year-olds to operate personal watercraft (jet skis). Mr. Walsh is also a certified vessel examiner. To learn more, call 508-627-7960. Track & Field The MVRHS freshmen and sophomore boys finished fourth among 29 teams entered in the Route 228 Track & Field Invitational at Hingham on Saturday, behind Whitman-Hansen, Bishop Feehan, and Sandwich. Jim Bishop was second in the shot put with a 38’ 22” heave. Ryan Gorman took third in the discus at 111’ 4”. Josh Jackson won the long jump with a leap of 18’9”. The MV 4x100 relay placed second at 50.62. Ry Yennie was sixth in the 400m dash and second with the javelin (129’ 9”). Tom Phillips was 10th in the 800m. The top six finishers earned points: 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1. The MV girls were 16th of 29 teams entered. Their strongest showing was in the shot put where Alice Hopkins was third a 31’ 11”. Ashley Medeiros’s 26’ 10” was sixth best in the shot and she was 11th in the 100m sprint. Kathy Dimovich and Rachel Schubert were 13th in the discus and javelin throws. Nina Butler was 15th in the 200m (31.14) and the same in the long jump (12’ 7”). Nica Sylvia was 17th in the mile (6:29.3) and the triple jump (26’ 11”). The 4x100 relay team finished 10th. Meadow marks Nine foursomes teed off in tandem in the Mink Meadows Opening Scramble, Saturday. The low team at 65 was John Gurney, Joe Fitzgerald, Eleanor Barrie, and Paul Hannigan. Each went home with the first prize money: $55. Just one shot back with 66 were Len Vanderhoop, Bob Huss, Sally Fitzgerald, and Ray Hope. Each earned $40. At 67 in third place worth $30 were Doug Dowling, Bob Tonti, Frank Gonzalves, and Frazier Colon. Earning $25 for the longest drives from the 10th tee were Liz Huss and Mark Plante. Rewarded $25 for drives closest to the pin on the par-three 7th hole were Georgie White (26” 2”) and Mark Plante (22’ 10”). The 4th annual M.V. Prevention Committee tournament at Mink Meadows will be Sunday, May 15. Members of the three top foursomes will receive $75, $60, $50 in prize money. $10,000 goes to the first hole-in-one on the 16th hole and numerous other prizes are up for grabs. RCBL stats Jerry Maciel, the RCBL commissioner and statistician released figures that show Asil Cash and Heath Estrella to be the league’s most potent playoff scorers. Heath led in field goals with 48. One more than Asil and Albie Robinson, each with 47. Asil sank the most foul shots, 38, followed by Heath with 35 and Karl Kallinich with 22. Asil’s 150 total point production was tops, four more than Heath’s 146. Albie was third with 130. Asil (41) and Heath (27) led in assists, while Elmer Silva had 26. Asil’s 24 steals were tops. Clint Merrill (16) was second. Chris Joyce and Damon Mello each had 15. Asil had the most points per game — 30. Damon had 29.3 per game and Estrella had 24.3. Karl Kallinich had the most blocked shots — 9. Netmen All of the MV singles players, Pat and Jamie Smadbeck and Nick Wallen, won their matches in straight sets here, Monday with Chatham, and Jeremy Meachem and Tim McHugh did as well at first doubles, 6-3, 7-5. At second doubles, freshmen Seth Seeman and Daniel Han played well, but bowed to two Chatham seniors, 4-6, 3-6. Tuesday The Rough Riders proved to be a smooth canter for Fennessy’s force, which swept Harwich in straight sets without much of a sweat. The team (4-3) is at always-tough Duxbury tomorrow. Netmaidens The MVRHS varsity girls tennis team scratched out its third win of the season at Chatham, Monday. At first and second singles, Islanders Morgan Anderson and Caetlyn Hutchinson lost in straight sets by the same margin, 6-3, 6-1. Katherine Clark remained unbeaten this year, besting Kailey Dolan at third singles and both MV doubles teams won. Lauren Franklin and Laura Kimball had to work for the first set, 7-5, but dominated the second, 6-1. Antonia Hickey and Christine Bagnall had no problem at all, 6-0, 6-0. At Harwich, Tuesday, the MV girls flexed their muscles and won every match. After three narrow (3-2) losses to begin the season, the girls have won four in a row gaining confidence and momentum. They can use all of it Friday versus Barnstable. Anchors aweigh Saturday, at B.C. High, the MVRHS sailing team was one of the three (of 10) teams to qualify for Sunday’s O’Day regatta at Tabor Academy. In heavy wind at Tabor, the Islanders finished in the top five in eight early races. But with wind conditions changing, the young Vineyarders had to settle for 10th place behind St. George’s, Tabor, Milton, Portsmouth Abbey, Brunswick, Hotchkiss, BC High, North Kingston and Duxbury in that order. Trailing M.V. were Marblehead, Belmont Hill, Greenwich, Williams, and Hingham. Saturday, Bp. Stang will challenge the Vineyard at the Sailing Camp Park in the Lagoon at noon. MV will host the New England Team Racing championships during which eight teams will race for three berths in the Nationals, May 21-22. We’re in! MVRHS has become an associate member of the South Coast Conference which includes Apponequet, Bourne, Case, Dighton-Rehobeth, Fairhaven, Greater New Bedford Voke, Old Rochester, Seekonk, and Wareham, perhaps ending a long search for a “home” since the demise of the old Cape & Islands League. “Perhaps” because the Vineyard’s membership is that of an “associate” and will be reviewed in 2007. The Expenditure of time and money involved in sending teams to the Vineyard has been the sticking point. The new fast-ferry service and an MV offer to pay for some of the ferry fare of visiting teams has obviously helped to sweeten the pot. Eight Island teams that are now in no league will play conference-heavy schedules beginning with winter sports. Boys and girls soccer teams, basketball teams and the baseball and softball teams will play 18 conference games — home and home with the other nine schools in the conference. The field hockey team will play 16 conference games. The boys hockey team will play Bourne, Greater New Bedford, Old Rochester, Fairhaven and Wareham, home and home. Teams already in a conference or league will stay there for the foreseeable future, according to Athletic Director Glen Field. Only the boys and girls tennis teams and the golf team remain independents. The football, track, and cross-country teams will stay in the Mayflower League. The boys and girls lacrosse teams remain in the Maritime League, The Girls hockey team is still in the South Cape League and the Sailing team has its own affiliation in a Cape & Islands league. Potpourri The 11th annual Children’s Benefit Golf Tournament will be held Sunday, June 5, at Farm Neck to benefit the B&G Club and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Five-player teams will tee off beginning 8 am. Sponsors, 5-player teams and interested persons are wanted. Call Greg Rollins at 627-3303……The JV girls field hockey team enjoyed a hat trick by Celeste Glavin and two goals by Tiffany Smalley but lost to Dartmouth last Wednesday, 9-5. Grace Murphy led the attack here Friday against Greater New Bedford Voke with another hat trick and two assists, but the Whale City visitors won, 9-6…..Karen Kukolich of Edgartown set a new women’s world’s record (her third) by landing a 22-pound Pacific jack cravalle on a 16-pound tippet in Crocodile Bay, Costa Rica…..For the third time this spring, Vanessa Pisano was named NEWMAC player-of-the-week. She led Wheaton to its third consecutive lacrosse league championship with 12 goals and 2 assists against Babson, Amherst, and MIT….The MV R&G Club’s 31st annual trout tournament for kids will be Saturday, May 7, at Duarte’s Pond. The pond will have been stocked by volunteers with more than 2,000 trout. Hot dogs, donuts, and sodas will be served. DeLisle is debest Bob DeLisle regained the Rod & Gun trap championship, a title he wore from 2000 to 2003, by breaking 46 of 50 targets, Sunday. Tim O’Bryan was second and tops in class A with 44. Buss O’Brien was third and best in class B with 41. Class C champ John Cahill broke 37 targets. Bob DeLisle became a Grand Slam Award winner, joining Harold Green and Jim Malm, the third to have won the trap, skeet and Klays for Kids shoot-outs. Grillo cleans up Tony Grillo of Vineyard Haven, the 15-year-old freshman leader of the MVRHS golf team, won his first national title last weekend at the FCWT (Future Collegiate World Tour) at Stow Acres by carding 115 for 27 holes in the rain, two better than Dong Kim of Bradenton, Florida, who was second. Sunday’s heavy downpour shortened the planned 18 holes to nine. Tony had three birdies. “I was just glad to shoot pars in the rain,” he told The Times. What’s next? The win qualifies Tony to compete for the national PGA junior championship at Palm Beach, Florida, Memorial Day weekend. A softball win The MVRHS softball team evened the season count at 4-4 with an 8-3 win at Harwich, Tuesday. Both Kathryn DeBettencourt and Kelsey Perry scored three times. Pitcher Brielle Leonard struck out seven and boosted her cause with two hits. Kelly Silvia, the Vineyard’s outstanding catcher, mowed down two would-be stealers at second base. It was just the Rough Riders’ second loss of the year. |
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