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December 23 - December 29, 2004 Edition
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS December 23, 2004 Youth Hockey MV Youth Hockey teams played eight games, four off-Island, four on, last week. Saturday, at the Arena, the PeeWee A’s survived a third period rally by Lower Cape to win, 4-3. Chris Davies and Jock Cooperrider score purple points in the first period, assisted by Dakota Delviento and Teddy Kram. In the second frame goals were by Tyler Araujo with help from Nick Dorr, and by Kevin Gallagan assisted by Chris Davies. Alex Dorr was the winning goalie. Also at the Arena, Sunday, the unbeaten in league (11-0-2) Bantam Yankees skated to a 1-1 tie with Barnstable White. Center Jarek Peters put a nifty move on the Barnstable goalie (30 saves) assisted by Alexa Fisher, for the MV score. MV netman Zach Waller was tested only eight times but was taken out of the play for the Barnstable goal. Despite two unassisted goals by Jordy Abrams, Lower Cape defeated the MV Squirts with two goals in the third period, 4-2. Zollie Clarke and Mike Sylvia shared time in the MV cage, facing 20 shots on goal. The Lower Cape goalie was challenged 16 times. The MV Bantam A’s lost to Barnstable, 7-1. The lone MV goal was Scott Cleary’s abetted by Matthew Flynn. Mike Capen was in the MV goal. In an away game, the Bantam Yankees shut out Nantucket, 3-0. Jarek Peters, Antone Silvia, and Nick Kiersted scored. Alexa Fisher, Zoe Fisher, and Connor Johnson assisted. Goalie Zach Waller earned the shutout. At the Kennedy Rink in Hyannis, the PeeWee A’s earned a 6-4 win on goals by Jock Cooperrider (2), Charles Goldthwaite (2), Chris Davies, and Tyler Araujo. In the weekly House Mite duel, the Reds overcame a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Blacks going away, 5-2. The Reds now lead in the series, 3-2. Darts fly at the PA Steve Furtaw, Cindy Griesser, and Peter Valentas took home the dart league money on Dec. 9, after defeating Rene Mathieu, Bill Frizzell, and Karen Wojtkielo in a playoff, after both teams had defeated opponents, 6-5. The next week the Fred Pekari partisans, Steve Maciel, Kurt Tesch, and Charlene Barbosa, beat Charlene Alley and allies Mike Lipinsky and Peter Searle, 7-4. The Furtaw fusileers lead the league with 82 points, followed by Fred Pekari’s people (77) and the Charlene Alley alliance (69). MAC wants you The members of Martha’s Athletic Club (MAC) invites everyone — men and women, boys and girls — to join them for a New Year’s Day run beginning at the Tisbury school at 10 am, January 1. Runners, joggers, walkers may chose between a 5-mile or a 5-kilometer route. No charge. No pressure. No competition. Everyone is a winner. Edison is chosen Edison Parzanese of Edgartown, the MVRHS record setting cross-country runner and high scoring attackman on the school’s lacrosse team, has been named to the Top Gun “Fighting Clams” all-star indoor lacrosse team. The team has 22 high school varsity players chosen from the 1,700 athletes in the Top Gun Indoor Lacrosse Leagues in Acton, Northboro, and Plymouth. The Fighting Clams will represent this region at the National Indoor Lacrosse Championship tourney at Hightstown, New Jersey over the Martin Luther King weekend, Jan. 14-17. Twenty four teams representing various areas of the country will compete. Sharpshooting muzzleloader Bernie Arruda won the traditional firearm championship shoot-off at the MV Rod and Gun Club, Sunday. It was his first win at the annual competition. Tom Taylor and Kevin Gunderson tied for second place. In the relatively new category of modern blackpowder, Steve Jordan had the highest score. It was his third win in the category. At place and show were Alan Albee and Phil Hughes. Winners took home hams and turkeys donated by Edgartown Stop & Shop and Cronig’s Market. RCBL Week 5 The early game at the B&G Club on Monday pitted the undefeated Timberwolves against the winless Legends with unsurprising results, a 111-72 win for the T-Wolves. Asil Cash led the Lobos to the hoop with 37 points. Also in double numbers: Mike Joyce 22, Brian Welch 16, Harrison Holmes 12, and Chuck Downing 10 . High men for the Legends were Julius Middleton (13) and David Perez (12). Whatever hopes the Legends may have had for making a comeback run disappeared when Brian Scott was slapped with a second technical and forced to leave the game. Shorthanded Lakers prevail In the nightcap the Lakers and Patriots went at it. Only five Lakers showed up for the game so Heath Estrella, Albie Robinson, Jeff LaBell, John Healy and Greg Johnson played 48 minutes without rest. As a matter of fact, Johnson arrived late and the Lakers began the game with four players. But they stepped up to the challenge, especially Heath Estrella who quietly assumed command at both ends of the court leading both teams in rebounds and scoring a game high 33 points including 12 of 14 from the free throw line. Jeff LaBell had 29. Albie Robinson 25, Greg Johnson 18 and John Healy 14. Five Pats finished in two columns: Damon Mello 21, Ryan Murtha 20, Sandy Fisher 20, Teejay Roginski 15, and Jason Dyer 13. As usual, the RCBL will take a holiday break. RCBL Standings Timberwolves 5-0 Patriots 3-2 Lakers 2-3 Legends 0-5 Interscholastic action The previously unbeaten Edgartown girls suffered their first loss of the basketball season at West Tisbury, Thursday, 25-21. E-town’s Jessie Donoghue had the game high 12. Loren Gibson of WesTiz chipped in 8 and Sarah Flanders, 6. The Edgartown boys kept their record clean with a home court 64-56 win over Tisbury. The Tigers gave the Eagles something to think about and trailed by just four with a minute left. Mike McCarthy and Steve Handy soared highest for the Eagles, both with 14 points at game’s end. Andrew McElhinny had the game high 18 for Tisbury. Allen Berol added 10 more. Monday, the West Tisbury boys doused the OB Blazers, 44-40. Nick Gross was high for the up-Islanders with 18. Franklin Taylor’s 12 paced the OB attack. Deer season A faithful Times reader sent us an e-mail that says, according to the Alaskan Department of Fish and Game, both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer but the males shed their antlers in late November or early December. Female reindeer keep their antlers until they give birth in the spring. Obviously, Prancer, Dancer, Blitzen & Co. are all females. But of course! Only women could get away with dragging an overweight man in an outlandish red suit all around town, late at night, breaking and entering, and not get arrested. Boys hoops The undefeated Wareham Vikings were too much for the Vineyard boys varsity, Friday, jumping off to a 37-19 lead at the half and extending that to a 73-50 finish. Tim Scott (9), Lucas Brewer (8) and Matt Rivers (8) accounted for half of the purple points MV took its 1-2 record to D-Y yesterday.

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