|
Sports
September 15, 2005
By Don Lyons
Photos by Ralph Stewart
| 
Jackson Parker was first to complete the 5K run through the state forest, but Taunton earned team honors.
Allison Flanders led the MV girls to victory in the season's first two cross-country meets.
|
First meet a split
Allison Flanders led the MVRHS girls cross-country team to a 23-33 victory over Taunton in the team's first meet, here, Saturday. Allison covered the 5K course through the state forest in 21:43. At 22:37 Cassaundra Gaines finished third. Hilary Dreyer, Sagitta Woodman, and Alida Dean filled the 5,6,8 spots and Nicole Perry was tenth.
Jackson Parker finished first in the boys race at 17:26 and Edison Parzanese was third 37 seconds later, But Taunton filled the 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 holes to claim the win, 25-30. Mason Fisher was 7th in 18:36, Ry Yennie and Evan Kendall were ninth and tenth.
Tuesday, at Carver, the teams outran both Hull and Carver in a triangular meet. Parzanese, Parker and Yennie finished 1-2-3 leading the MV boys over Hull, 17-42 and Carver, 19-40. Mason Fisher and Evan Kendall were 7th and 8th at 20:10 and 20:50.
Allison Flanders led all girls to the tape in 20:31, followed by Carver's Lauren Wadlow in 20:52. Sagitta Woodman was third, Cassaundra Gaines 6th, Hilary Dreyer, 7th and Sarah Jane Flanders 8th.
The MV girls margin of victory over Hull was 15-50, over Carver, 26-37..
Sacred Heart brings its division 3 state champion team here Saturday.
Josh Jackson (17) and Ben Post (23) sandwich a Blue Knight contesting for control of the ball.
A meeting of the minds late in the second half.
|
One up, one down
The MVRHS boys soccer team won its second game in as many starts, Friday, defeating Nauset at North Eastham, 3-1. The Islanders scored three times in the first half and a tight D made sure that was enough to claim the win. Antulio Neto was assisted twice by Davy Campbell and Ben Madeiras scored off a pass from Ben Post.
Zach Sylvia was especially active on defense.
The first half of Monday's home opener with Sandwich was scoreless. Both teams had their chances. A Vineyard kick caromed off the left post. A Sandwich player missed a wide open net from ten feet out.
Midway in the second half, a gust of wind caught a Vineyard corner kick lifting it and suspending it over the Sandwich net. It looked like a kid's balloon at the Ag Fair. It drifted down to the crowd of players jostling in front of the net and bounced off a defender for an own goal.
Minutes later, at the other end of the field, the ball caromed off a Vineyard defender into the MV net tying the score. Two minutes later Sandwich scored again.
"It wasn't our best game," coach Bob Hammond remarked.
The Lighthorseman nears the finish line powered by six Voyagers.
|
Down east gig
Six of the Vineyard Voyagers, the MV women's rowing team, traveled to Rockland, Maine, to row in the 30th Short Ships Regatta, open to all rowing and paddling craft: pulling boats, dories, gigs, kayaks, and canoes, single or multiple seated.
The Islanders borrowed a gig, the Lighthorseman, and two rowers. They did not finish among the leaders but they had a good time.
Making the trip were Tamar Russell, Tracey Jones, Amanda White, Wendy Gray, Annie Parsons, and Lesli Dodge-Harrer. Tamar, Tracey, and Meredith Currier of Atlantic Challenge alternated at stroke.
The combination of wind and wave created some crowded conditions.
|
Saturday's 28th Annual Moffett Race saw bright sunshine and fluky September winds
By David Irland
A bright, sunny Saturday marked the start of the 28th Annual George Moffett Race in Vineyard Haven. A mixed fleet of 48 boats hit the starting mark just off East Chop in spotty winds that varied in force and moved around the compass "anywhere from north to northwest to northeast," according to Hugh Swartz, event chairman.
The unpredictable winds, combined with a strong east current, swept many of the fleet downwind of the first mark, which competitors then found themselves close enough to touch, but unable to round. Twenty boats began drifting back home — though the hard core anchored just downstream of the buoy in the glassy swell, hoping in vain for a return of the favorable wind.
Most of those lucky enough to round the buoy stayed in the wind, which steadied around 10 knots from the northeast, allowing 28 boats to finish the race.
Race committee chairman Harry Duane proclaimed at the award ceremonies that the founding father of the race, Francis "Pat" West, would have said, "It was a great day for a Moffett Race."
In a good-humored aside, Mr. Duane spoke somewhat apologetically of the "bell buoy flats" referring to the buoy about a mile off East Chop and a phenomenon of long standing in which the wind often dies at that location, leaving, he said, "a hole about a half a mile in radius around that buoy. I should have warned everyone about that." Mr. Duane told The Times it was a phenomenon with a long history and one about which he'd spoken and written many times.
The five boats that led on corrected time were: Damien McLaughlin in Arion, Barbara Crosbie in Celeste, Sid Axinn in Tashmoo Traveller, Michael Hobart in Sally May, and Michael Soros, owner, Scott DiBiaso, skipper, in Juno.
The Moffett Race, sponsored by the Holmes Hole Sailing Association, is traditionally held on the first Saturday after Labor Day. The contest memorializes Mr. Moffett, an explorer, noted yachtsmen, and conservationist.
Sports Highlights >
|
