Sports Highlights
August 25, 2005
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Roberto Planto, Coop de Ville Captain, is hassled by defenders near the WH Russell net tended by goalie Russell Hodson
Photos by Susan Safford
Paul Adler was half of the winning men’s doubles team. |
Brewhas sweep
The Brewhas made it three straight over the Wildcats Thursday, sweeping to their ninth playoff title in the last 12 years.
Last year they lost in the playoff finals to the Hurricanes.
The Brewhas had finished first in the summer league season with 12 wins and two losses, one of which was to the Wildcats.
The Wildcats finished strong and took third place behind the Brewhas and Hurricanes (11-3), with a 9-5 record.
To reach the finals of the playoffs, the Brewhas took two from the Riptide and Makos while the Wildcats swept the Treds and Hurricanes.
Game one of the finals was a thriller with the Brewhas scoring three times in the bottom of the seventh to pull out a win, 16-15.
Game two was not close. The Brewhas won, 16-10.
The third game, Thursday, looked like another coaster for the Brewhas. They ran off 12 runs in the first three innings to the ‘Cats three and coasted into the final inning with a ten run lead.
The ‘Cats were not through. Their line drives found the empty places and they ran the bases well, avoiding over-reaching. They scored seven runs to come within three of tying the game, but finally conceded 16-13.
Chase again
In the twelve-and-under tennis tourney at Concord last week, Chase Urban, 12, of Vineyard Haven easily won his first three matches, including the match with the tournament’s second seed, Ben Davies of Redding, Conn. Chase then played a 2.5-hour match with Carl Defranco of Belmont, losing 4-6, 4-6. It was Chase’s first loss of the season.
Chase picked up ranking points for his wins and plans to play in tournaments each weekend through September. His goal: to make it to the top 20 in New England by 30 September.
Bridgeheads
With seven Bridge Club of MV tables in play Saturday at the Tisbury senior center, Barbara Donald and Clara Hargrave led north/south players. Eleanor Hughes and Duncan Walton were second, followed by Rosemary Taylor and Irene Gaines.
At east/west, the top team was Barbara Besse and George Willoughby. Norma Kilson and Betty Dixon were second and Frances G. Finney and Joan Marshall, third.
The Edgartown swim
Seventeen of the 25 10- to 14-year-old swimmers who registered for the 4th annual Edgartown swimming race at Bend-of-the-Road Beach showed up Friday to race.
Winners in the several age categories were: Brianna Sullivan, 10, 2:33; Marion Harshberg, 11, 2:09; Alexandra Iula, 12, 2:08; Nichole Maleh, 14, 2:12.
Best overall were (1) Alexandra Iula, 2:08, (2) Marion Harshberg, 2:09 (3) Amelia Knipmeyer, 2:11 (4) Nichole Maleh, 2:12 (5) Adam Maleh, 2:31.
Edgartown’s head swim instructor and race founder, Jody Mello, was grateful for the support of local businesses, which provided food, drink and prizes. She was pleased with the growth in interest but even more with the improved times registered by the swimmers.
Chappy report
According to 16-year-old Ben Ollsson, a junior at the Pomfret school, the two-week wrestling camp on Chappaquiddick that he arranged was sparsely attended but appreciated by those who did. He told The Times he hopes to have a wrestling camp next summer, too.
HHSA to Chappy
Eleven Holmes Hole Sailing Assn. boats raced in Vineyard Haven harbor last Thursday in a southwest wind of 5-8 knots.
Mike Oliveira was first across the finish line in Bora. Phil Hale was second in Mischief. Then came (3) Peter Hyman-Young (4) Tom Gibson (5) Don Cohan (6) Jerry Goodale, (7) Dan Culkin, (8) John Amabile, (9) Tim Chilton, (10) Tom Graham, and (11) Peter Strock.
Ten boats sailed in the Chappy Rendezvous race, Sunday, in 10-15 knot southwest winds under cloudy skies with predictions of rain.
John Amabile’s description of the race has it that “the fleet raced across the starting line at 10 am and sailed to can 27a at East Chop on a broad reach and run. Rounding the can, the skippers continued on a reach to green can 3. After rounding that can the fleet beat to windward into a robust breeze to the finish line at red nun 8 at the entrance to Edgartown harbor.”
Division A winner was Irving Gates in King Kiwi, Jerry Coe was second in Indian Summer with (3) Roger Becker in Gloria, (4) Jerry Goodale in Stormalong, (5) John Amabile in Solitude. Mischief retired.
In the B division Mike and Linda Loberg were first in Candle in the Wind, Art and Caroline Spengler were second in Raven, Sid Axinn was third in Tashmoo Traveler, and fourth was Woody Bowman in Julia Lee.
This Sunday’s rendezvous race is to Robinson’s Hole.
In the hole
After hitting what felt like a good shot on the ninth hole at Farm Neck Golf Club last Wednesday, Ed Jerome, retired Edgartown school principal and Bass and Bluefish Derby president, thought he had lost his golf ball.
Playing with his son and nephew, Nick Jerome and Will Stabler, Ed lost sight of the ball.
“It looked like it passed the pin,” Ed said. But after a brief search, his playing partners found the ball.
“Sure enough, it was in the hole,” remarked a delighted Ed Jerome. It was his first-ever hole-in-one.
Member-guest at the Meadows
Steve Mussell and Elmer Silva, teammates on the Lakers team in the Recreational Center Basketball League, had the low gross score, 67, in the Mink Meadows member-guest tournament last weekend.
Len Vanderhoop and Paul Roberts, Craig Sexton and David Pizzano tied for second place with a gross score of 70.
With handicaps in play, Connie O’Doherty and Norman Vunk were best, with a low net of 58, followed by (2) Pat Gregory and Joe Arceri, 59, and (3) Mark Yale and David Blackburn, 61. Bob and Albie Rose (3), Sheldon and Fain Hackney (4) both carded 62.
Elmer Silva won the closest to the pin prize, leaving his ball 9 feet, 2 inches from the pin on the 166-yard seventh hole.
In Saturday’s long-drive competition, Len Vanderhoop drove his ball 314 yards. Elmer Silva was second best with a 296-yard effort.
Football Note
Attention all junior high football prospects!
Practice begins Monday, Aug. 29, at 5 pm at the high school field. All must have a physical and other paperwork completed before beginning play. Paperwork may be picked up at first practice. Cost is $90 per player.
Tony at Brattleboro
Tony Grillo of Vineyard Haven and Farm Neck G.C. was one of the seven-member Massachusetts team competing at the New England Junior Championship tournament at Brattleboro, Vermont last week.
The Bay State team came in third at 1,123, behind Rhode Island (1,099) and New Hampshire (1,100),but beating Connecticut (1,140), Maine (1,141) and Vermont (1,164).
Tony led the 14-15 age groups with an 18-hole card of 145, two better than second place players from New York and New Jersey at 147. Tony will lead the MVRHS golf team this fall.
Opera House feeder
Saturday’s feeder race to Nantucket and the Opera House Cup race began in fog at East Chop. Half way to Nantucket, at Norton Shoal, the wind died and boats had to motor to Nantucket.
In the spirit of the race, awards were given to Arion, Juno, and Bonzai.
Winds were southwest from 20 to 25 knots for the Opera House Cup race, Sunday, making the day exciting for big boats and schooners such as Juno.
Summer
soccer ends
Coop de Ville and W.H. Russell Painting played to a scoreless tie Thursday in the playoff finals at Veterans Park in Tisbury. The Painters had started with ten players, one man shy, and finished the game with only nine as Richardo Andrade was red-carded for his too strenuous objection of a referee’s call. After two 10-minute overtime periods the teams remained scoreless and the sun had set.
Penalty shots were called for as a way to break the tie. The teams matched each other, 4-4, in the first round of five tries as the Painters goalie, Russell Hodson, made a save and team captain Rodrigo Zanon’s kick caromed off the post. The playoffs then went to sudden death penalty kicks and Coop de Ville prevailed when Zanon’s kick again bounced off an upright.
In the awards ceremony following the game, Coop deVille received the Gilbert-Hammond cup, the league’s primary trophy, for the second year in a row. The cup is named for league founders Gilbert Lorenzoni and Bob Hammond.
Coop de Ville manager Pete Berrndt also accepted the first round cup and W.H. Russell’s manager Rodrigo Zanon accepted the second round cup, both new this year.
League Commissioner Neal Sullivan told The Times, “The quality of this year’s play was outstanding with very few problems which were easily resolved.” He said that the end of ethnically based teams had “reduced tension, fouls, and violence.” He gave credit to volunteer managers, linesmen, and committee members and said there is a shortage of certified referees. He expressed appreciation for Chris Decker, Wagner deSilva, Nelio Pinheiro, Sydney Rodregues and John Walsh for filling in.
All-Island tennis tourney
The first annual All-Island Tennis Championship raised $5,000 in funds for Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard. Fifty-eight players participated in the tournament, which was hosted by Island Country Club Tennis of Oak Bluffs. Matches in four divisions were played at clubs across the Vineyard, including Island Country Club Tennis, Mattakesett Tennis Club in Edgartown, and the Youth Tennis Center in Oak Bluffs.
All players played at least two matches, including consolation rounds for players who lost in their first round. Trophies were awarded to the winners and finalists, and all players received an event t-shirt.
The tournament featured four events: men’s doubles, women’s doubles (both open and 3.5 level), and mixed doubles. Winners were as follows:
Mixed doubles: Nina Bramhall and Paul Schneider.
Men’s doubles: Paul Adler and Sandy Nadelstein.
Women’s doubles (open): Sue Kimball and Karla Araujo.
Women’s doubles (3.5): Susie Safford and Sally Anderson.
According to Mas Kimball, tournament director and head pro at Island Country Club Tennis, the tournament will be an annual fundraising event for Hospice, but will be moved to Labor Day Weekend next year. “We are excited about the turnout for the first year but feel confident that each year will bring more players out and more funds for a very worthy cause.”
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