Sports
Highlights
August
4, 2005
Manager Pete Berndt with the Gilbert-Hammond Cup and the
rest of his Coop deVille pride. The Coops finished the first
round of league play in first place without a loss.
Photos
by Ralph Stewart
Want to cool off (to say the least!) and watch some pretty
good hockey? Check out the MV Arena Tuesday or Thursday
at 7 pm. It’s free.
Catherine and Chase Urban won the parent-child tennis tournament
at the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club. They are shown here with
the club’s tennis pro, Scott Smith.
Winner of the annual Menemsha Pond July regatta in the Herreshoff
fleet was Ken Iscol in "Quitsa Mania." In the
Handicapped fleet, Dan Greenbaum was first in the sunfish
"Nasal Spray" just nosing out Richard Cohen in
"Harmony." The junior champion was Zachary Coutinho
in "Mellow Yellow," another sunfish.
Photo
by Louisa Gould
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All-stars
at Freetown
The ten-year-old MV Little League all-stars spent the weekend at Freetown
with 20 other all-star teams, finishing the tournament in a very respectable
fourth place.
The first game, Friday, was with Dunstable, N.H. Mike DeBettencourt
started and gave up three runs, giving way to Stuart Hersh in the
fourth. MV batted around in the bottom of the third and scored seven
times to take a 7-4 lead. The loudest blow was Alec Tattersall’s
bases-loaded double that drove in three. But relief pitcher Hersh
couldn’t hold the lead and Dunstable won, 10-8.
Saturday morning MV trounced Swansea, 14-5, at Mini Fenway. The Islanders
scored eight runs in the first on a fistful of walks and hits by Hersh,
Jack Roberts, and Andrew Hakala.
Later versus Freetown, Tattersall’s three-run homer broke open
a close game. Jack Roberts started and went four innings to be relieved
by Tattersall. Both were 3-for-4 at the plate.
In a well-played game Sunday morning, the Islanders beat Easton behind
Hersh and Tattersall, 3-2. Then, In MV’s final game, Lakeville
scored seven runs in the first inning and never looked back. Final
score: Lakeville 12, MV 6.
Grillo
is Champ
Tony Grillo claimed the Mass. Golf Assn. Pre-Junior Championship
title (14-15 years old) with a score of 7-over par 223, which was
six strokes better than his closest competitor, Colin Brennan.
How to go, Tony!
Women's
softball
Tuesday evening at Veterans Park, the Creamers dropped the Snaps,
11-4, and the Honeys got by the Hazards, 5-2. The Shady Ladies shaded
the Vixens, 19-7.
Women's softball standings
Honeys 7-2
Creamers 7-2
Snaps 6-3
Shady Ladies 4-5
Hazards 3-6
Vixens 0-9
A women's league all-star game with cookout is planned for August
30 at 6:30 pm. The public is invited.
Team
races
The Southern Mass Sailing Assn. team racing quarter finals were
moved to the Lagoon, Thursday after choppy seas and 15-knot NNE
winds shut down the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club (VHYC) harbor course.
Team racing, common at the high school and collegiate levels, pits
three-boat teams against other three-boat teams.
The VHYC team, comprised of top MVRHS sailors, went undefeated to
automatically advance to the Area A team race finals. Edgartown,
Hyannis, and Sail Martha’s Vineyard teams, finishing second,
third, and fourth, advance to the semi-finals on August 3. The West
Dennis team was eliminated.
Splash
The 4th annual Edgartown 150-yard freestyle and breaststroke swim
competition for children 10 to 14 years old will be held Friday,
August 19, at Bend-in-the-Road Beach beginning at noon. Swimmers
should arrive at the beach by 11:30 to check in. Local businesses
are donating food and prizes for all the swimmers, and special awards
for the winners.
Head swim instructor Jody Mello began the event because there were
few opportunities for swimmers to compete on the Island. She notes
that each year the winning times improve. All swimmers are welcome.
Register for the free swim from August 7 to 14. Call Jody at 627-5649
for more information.
It's
a deal
Gloria and Theodore Manning scored best at north-south at the Bridge
Club of MV tables in the Tisbury senior center, Saturday. Deidre
Ling and Edward Russell were second best followed by (3) Jerry Jones
and Charity Randolph, (4) Jean and Lionel McMurran.
At east-west, Jim Kaplan and Jonathan Lebadoff were tops, Barbara
Besse and Art Flathers were runners up. Then came (3) Chery Neal
and Frances Finney, (4) Elanor Hughes and Calvin Bass.
Swimming
with icebergs
Well-known swimmer Lynne Cox, author of “Swimming to Antarctica,”
will conduct a swim clinic on State Beach, Sunday, August 14 from
10 am to 3 pm providing training tips for cold water and open water
swimming.
Ms. Cox has made a number of record-setting swims, including a 27-mile
swim across the Catalina Channel in 1971 when she was 14 years-old.
The next year, she swam the English Channel. In 1987, she swam across
the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia and in 2002 she was the
first to swim one mile to the shores of Antarctica in 32-degree
water.
Ms. Cox’s appearance is sponsored by the YMCA of M.V.
The $100 fee for the clinic includes lunch. Enrollment is limited.
Call 508-696-7171 for registration information.
Season-enders
The Makos played three games in two evenings to close out their
season, winning two and narrowly losing one.
On Wednesday they faced the league’s two top teams. They were
shaded by the Brewhas, 15-14 then defeated the Hurricanes, 15-10.
The next night they came from behind in the final inning to get
by the Treds, 15-14.
Also on the last night of the scheduled season, the league’s
two top teams, Brewhas and Hurricanes, went at it. The ‘Canes
sent 16 batters to the plate in the first inning, scoring 12 runs.
The Brewhas rallied for six runs in the third, but really never
got close enough to challenge. Final score: 21-12.
Final
Men’s Softball standings
Brewhas 12-2
Hurricanes 11-3
Wildcats 9-5
Sandogs 9-5
Makos 8-6
Treds 4-10
Boilers 2-12
Riptide 0-14
Second season
In the first round of playoff games on Monday, the Brewhas cruised
by the Riptide in five innings, 23-2, and the Wildcats shut out
the Treds in six, 15-0. In a game that promised to be close but
wasn’t, the Makos scored 10 runs in the fourth, capping another
rule-shortened game with the Skinny Sandogs, 22-6
Winners of two of three games advance. Losers go home.
Last night the Treds and Cats played their second game as did the
Makos and Sandogs. The third game was Boilers vs. Hurricanes.
Playoff games continue tonight at Veterans Park, Tisbury.
The
annual Madeiras
Fourteen teams are expected to tee it up in the annual Richie Madeiras
tournament, August 13-14: four from Falmouth, five from the Vineyard,
two from Connecticut, two from Rhode Island, and one from Bridgewater,
according to tourney impressario Ray Tattersall. All monies raised
by the tourney go the Richie Madeiras Children’s Fund.
Summer
soccer
In the last games of the Vineyard Football League’s round
one, the lead team, Coop deVille was tied by Broadway Screen Printing,
2-2. The Coops then shut out Sports Haven, 3-0.
Also last week, Atlantic and W.H. Russell Paint played to a scoreless
tie and W.H. Russell defeated MV Lath & Plaster, 2-1.
VFL
round one standings
G W D L GF GA P
Coop deVille 10 7 3 0 31 10 24
W.H. Russell 10 5 3 2 19 15 18
MV Lath & Plaster10 6 0 4 15 16 18
Atlantic Footbal 10 4 3 3 16 8 15
Broadway Print 10 2 1 7 12 30 7
Sports Haven 10 1 0 9 12 27 3
For round two the six VFL teams are divided into two leagues with
Coop deVille, Atlantic and Broadway in the A division, W.H. Russell,
MV Lath & Plaster, and Sports Haven in B.
Tuesday Coop deVille topped Broadway, 2-1. W.H. Russell beat Sports
Haven by the same 2-1 score.
Swartz
a winner
Jim Swartz of Edgartown sailed his Swan 601”Moneypenny”
to a first place Class A finish in the Rolex Swan American Regatta
after a week of sailing off Newport last week. Swartz made it look
easy. In eight races, Moneypenny finished first five times and second
once. His total score of 11 was eight better than second-place finisher
Filip Balcaen in Aqua Equinox.
Thirty-nine Swan yachts competed.
What's
up!
The annual Scoops 5K road race jumps off Saturday at 9 am from Katama
Farms, Edgartown….The MV Rod & Gun Club’s annual
skeet shoot is Sunday from noon to 4 pm. Entry fee is $15, open
to members and non-members alike. Each shooter fires at 50 targets.The
public is cordially invited to attend. For more information or to
sign up, call Bob DeLisle at 627-3019.
All-stars
at Sandwich
At Sandwich the MV Little League 11- and 12-year-old all-stars won
two games and lost three.
Bridgewater scored five runs off starter Ben Ciciora and three more
off reliever Del Araujo.
Ciciora hit a solo home run, clearing the fence in the first, and
Andrew Williamson scored in the third inning after reaching with
a single. Bridgewater 8, MV 2.
Hingham hung a goose egg on the Vineyarders while scoring seven
runs off William Stewart and five more off Chris Morris. Williamson
also pitched.
The Vineyard’s only hit was a fifth-inning single by Stewart.
MV won its first game of the tourney edging Mashpee, 4-3, behind
Ciciora and Peter Keaney. Del Araujo led the MV offense going 2-for-2,
including a double and driving in three runs. Ciciora also had two
hits, one of them a double.
Playing Mashpee again in the single-elimination round, the Islanders
won, 6-4. Stewart went the distance, striking out four. Jock Cooperrider’s
bases-loaded triple in the second was the big hit of the game. Max
Berlow and Noah Stobie drove in runs in the third and fifth.
The Vineyarders jumped off to a two-run lead over Bridgewater in
the fist inning. Cooperrider led off with a double. Ciciora walked.
Keaney singled and Smith drove in Cooperrider and Ciciora with a
double.
Bridgewater, the tourney winner, brought out its big guns in the
second, scoring 12 runs; and that was all she wrote.
Twenty teams were entered in the Sandwich tournament.
Hardball
Baseball enthusiasts of varied ages get together Tuesdays and Thursdays
at the high school field at 6 pm. The pick-up games will continue
‘til at least August 18.
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