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SPORTS
December
23, 2004
By
Don Lyons
Sutton
lost this battle for the ball to the Vineyardıs Tiffany
Smalley.
Photos
by Ralph Stewart
Taylor MacDonald is often at the center of a scrummage.
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Sutton
visits
“That
basket had a lid on it,” was Coach Mary MacDonald’s remark
following Saturday’s girls varsity basketball loss to Sutton.
The coach’s frustration was understandable: the Vineyarders
ran and scrambled for the ball and came away with their share of
rebounds, but the usually all-but-automatic lay-ups did not fall
and shots from further away from the basket bounced maddeningly
off the rim.
Only Kayla Leonard had some success. She scored eight of the Vineyard’s
first half 13 points. Sutton enjoyed an 11-point lead at the half,
24-13
It didn’t really get better in the second half. Sutton finished
ahead 50-26.
Jayvees win
The earlier junior varsity game was a cliff-hanger and the Islanders
squeezed out a 37-36 victory.
Julie Perry was high scorer for the Vineyard with 12, 10 of which
were scored in the second half.
Megan Rose also had a strong game and contributed 10 to the winning
total. Point guard Alice Hopkins ran the floor effectively and added
five points as well.
Coach Amy Maciel’s jayvees tipped off with D-Y here yesterday.
The girls varsity game followed.
Jamie
Smadbeck is surrounded by red-clad Raiders.
Jen Ward snags the puck in the Canton game as Brie Sylvia
closes in to assist.
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Hockey
happenings
The MVRHS boys varsity ice hockey team lost its season opener at
home to Barnstable a week ago Wednesday, 3-1.
The Red Raiders’ pressure on MV goalie Eli Bonnell paid off
nine minutes into the game when Mike Donoghue found the back of
the net. Dave Burlingame made it 2-0 four minutes later.
Two and a half minutes into the second period Barnstable’s
Chris Sweeney scored the visitors’ third goal.
Finn Briggs put the Vineyard on the board in the fifth minute of
the second frame assisted by Mike Giordano and Jamie Smadbeck. Later
in the period a Vineyard score was called back, apparently because
the net came loose before the puck went in.
With two seconds left in the period Barnstable was whistled for
the game’s first penalty.
The third period was scoreless. With time running out MV was called
for its only game infraction.
Barnstable was clearly the better team and most of the action took
place in front of MV goalie Bonnell. The Red Raiders took more than
twice as many shots on goal as the Islanders in the first two periods:
27 to 12, then pulled into a puck-control mode in the third.
Coach Mincone called his team’s performance “statuesque”
and vowed to work on the problem before the next contest.
That work must have paid off as the Islanders trounced Taunton at
Aleixo Arena, 13-2. Truth be told, however, the Coach was not satisfied.
“Our feet were moving a bit better but there’s a ways
to go,” he said.
The home team scored first when Taunton’s Tim Picard skated
in on goalie Alex Minehan from the face-off to give the Tigers a
1-0 lead.
But the rest of the period was overwhelmingly the Vineyard’s.
Scott Maciel’s goal, assisted by Finn Briggs and Stephen Greenberg,
tied the score at 2:04. A minute and a half later Mike Giordano
put the Islanders ahead to stay with help from Briggs and Maciel.
It was Giordano again at 4:17 and Nick Townes at 6:38. Maciel scored
his second of the period at 8:08 and Simon Goldberg posted MV’s
seventh at 9:16. Ryan Rossi closed out the period scoring his first
goal of his varsity career, assisted by Truman French and Joel Rebello.
Other assists in the period were credited to Townes, Jamie Smadbeck,
Rossi, Giordano, Briggs, Zach Sylvia, and Pete Lynch.
Two goals were scored in the second period, both by Islanders: Alex
Avakian (his first) and Giordano.
Tiger Ryan Hebert scored for Taunton early in the third frame, more
than offset by two goals, his first two, by Joel Rebello.
Another first was Alex Minehan’s. It was his first game in
goal and his first varsity win.
Minehan, Avakian, Rebello and French are all freshmen.
Yesterday the puckmen hosted Coyle & Cassidy at 4:30 pm. Next
Wednesday St. Peter Marian visits at noon.
Jayvees are 0-2
The MVRHS junior varsity squad bowed to Barnstable in the season
opener, 7-0, and lost to Taunton, 3-1 , Saturday. Ellery Whitworth
had the team’s only goal assisted by Mike Diaz and Greg Bettencourt.
Chris Hathaway tended the net.
Yesterday the team played Somerset in Fall River and tomorrow they
are at New Bedford versus Bishop Stang.
Watch and Ward
The MVRHS girls varsity skaters suffered their second shut-out loss
in as many starts, Wednesday, bowing to Westwood at Canton, 4-0.
The Wolverines scored once in the first period and three times in
the second. MV goalie Jen Ward was credited with 42 saves.
Saturday, at the MV Arena, Canton shut out the Islanders 7-0. It
was Canton’s first game of the season. MV, now 0-3, has yet
to score.
The girls are home to Nauset and Hingham at 1 pm next Tuesday and
Thursday.
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