SPORTS
January
20, 2005
By
Don Lyons
The point
guards race up the floor: Edgartown's Jessie Donahue and West
Tisbury's Alexia Schroeder.
Photos
by Ralph Stewart
Tad Gold and Cody Brewer, in each other's face throughout
the game, reach for a rebound.
OB's Franklin Taylor and Edgartown's Cody Brewer wrestle to
a jump ball.
The Oak Bluffs bench erupts as the buzzer-beating basket sent
the game into overtime.
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Eagles
fly higher than Hawks
The ball would
not drop for the West Tisbury girls in the first half of their interscholastic
championship game with the Edgartown Eagles at Oak Bluffs, Thursday.
The up-Islanders could post only nine points in the 16-minute first
half, six of which were by Lauren Gibson who also gave her team
rebounding control of the defensive board.
Meanwhile, the girls from Edgartown were pushing the ball up the
court and completing the play 11 times amassing 22 points, six each
by Jessie Donahue, Theresa DiMattia, and Erin Morris.
The second half was played even-steven: each side scored seven times.
Final score: Edgartown 36, West Tisbury 23.
Laura Jernegan and Theresa DiMattia were high for Edgartown with
8 apiece. Both Erin Morris and Jessie Donahue contributed six.
Lauren Gibson led the Hawks and was game high-scorer with 10. Maili
Scott had six.
OB in OT
In the boys interscholastic finals the Oak Bluffs Blazers and Edgartown
Eagles played their second overtime game in a week to decide Island
bragging rights, and once again the Blazers laughed last. At the
end of the regulation 32 minutes of play, the score was tied, 46-46.
The Blazers had the early advantage and led 19-6 after 10 minutes
of play. But Edgartown rallied to close the gap to three, 20-17,
by the break. Jess Swaringen and Tad Gold had stoked the Blazers
fire most, combining for 14 of the OB points. Mike McCarthy led
the Eagle attack with seven first-half points, including a 3-pointer.
James Todd joined the Gold-Swaringen scoring association in the
second half. All three scored six in the period and at the 10-minute
mark OB had opened up a nine-point lead, 32-23. Cody Brewer, who
had been strangely quiet, began to assert himself and with seven
and a half minutes left on the clock a pair of Brewer hoops put
Edgartown ahead, 36-34. It was the Eagles’ first lead since
the opening minutes.
Buckets by Billy Reagan and Tad Gold restored OB’s lead, 38-36.
Mike McCarthy sank a foul shot, reducing it to one.
Antone Silvia hit two Blazer quickies but so did Cody Brewer, one
from beyond the arc and the score was tied at 42. Todd and Handy
swapped goals and it was even at 44 with 1:14 left on the clock,
The Eagles had the ball and decided to play for the last shot. They
worked the clock down to nine seconds when Cody was fouled by Todd.
The Edgartown ace coolly dropped both free throws.
Tad Gold took the inbound pass and streaked up the court to sink
a layup, tying the game at the buzzer, 46-46.
Overtime
In the four minutes of OT, the Blazers’ Franklin Taylor, who
fell into early foul trouble and had spent most of the second half
on the bench, scored on a rebound and Jess Swaringen stole the ensuing
inbound pass and scored just four seconds later.
Cody Brewer hit from downtown and it was a one-point ball game until
Nick Wojtkielo dropped a foul shot with three seconds left, giving
OB a two-point edge.
Cody Brewer took the final shot of the game from midcourt. The ball
bounced off the rim and time ran out.
Jess Swaringen and Tad Gold were Blazers high scorers with 14 and
12 points.
Cody Brewer (18) and Mike McCarthy (15) did most of the damage for
Edgartown.
Stripe-shirted Mike Flynn, Russ MacDonald, and Greg Rollins kept
law and order. The Oak Bluffs gym overflowed with enthusiastic fans.
At one point Referee MacDonald borrowed a crutch from Martha Scheffer
to retrieve the ball that had bounced over the backboard and was
cradled in its pipe supports. The ball had also managed to get stuck
between the rim of the basket and the backboard after a missed foul
shot.
There is
plenty of action at the B&G Club Sunday mornings.
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Futsal
begins
The brand-new,
nine-team, indoor soccer Brazilian MV Futsal League kicked off its
season Sunday morning at the Boys & Girls Club before a large
and game-savvy audience of young men who enthusiastically appreciated
the skills demonstrated by not a few of the players.
The game is played five to a side, including the goalie.
The B&G is really not a large enough space for the game but
the players made do with it playing 25-minute halves and firing
into nets about the size of field hockey nets.
The first game pitted yellow-clad Coop deVille against J.R. Cleaning,
wearing green shirts. In the first half Coop deVille blasted nine
shots past the Cleaning’s goalie, Guilherme. At the other end
of the court Gilcleber blocked all but one shot on goal.
The Cleaners made a run at catching up in the second half bringing
the score to 9-5 at the ten-minute mark. But Coop deVille was not
finished and the game ended, 13-6
Only two goals, one by each team, were scored in the first half
of the second game. But Wesley and Adriano warmed to the task in
the second half and Wrap ‘n’ Roll beat Fogaças
9-2.
Wesley led the Wrappers, scoring with a collection of fancy shots,
once faking Fogaças goalie Gelson out of the net and scoring
with a blind backward lick. The Wrap ‘n’ Roll’ goalie
was Julio Cesar.
In the third game, a defensive battle, Island Star edged Benitos,
3-1.
Teams with a bye on day one were North Star, Laudiney, and Paco
Santana.
Vineyarder
Ed Pierce sends the stone from the hack toward the house with
Dr. Dave Dewees sweeping a smooth ride.
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Curling
The game of curling began in Scotland in the 16th century and caught
the attention of Americans during the Calgary Winter Olympics in
1988.
The game is played by teams (rinks) of four players: the skip (captain),
vice-skip, the second and the lead on “sheets” of ice
with 42-pound granite stones. The object of the game is to position
your team’s stones closest to the center of a bull’s-eye,
called the “tee,” inside the “house.” Stones
are propelled from a “hack.” Two sweepers with brooms
accompany the stone down the ice helping to direct its speed and
path. The skip calls the shot and instructs the sweepers.
The Cape Cod Curling Club (CCCC) was born in 1969 after some Cape
Codders visited The Country Club in Brookline where the first curling
rink in the US was established in 1820.
For its first eight years, the CCCC played at the Falmouth Ice Arena
sharing the ice with hockey teams. CCCC moved into its own facility,
donated by the J.K. Lilly family, in 1975.
A dozen Vineyarders make a weekly trip to Falmouth for an “end”
or two.
A variety of memberships are offered from $25 to $330. Visit capecodcurling.org
to learn more.
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