U14 softballers take off
The Under 14 MV Travel Softball team has joined the Cape Cod Softball League, a fast pitch league.
Oak Bluffs summer basketball underway
Oak Bluffs Summer League basketball (OBSL) got underway Tuesday night at Niantic Park, with all eight teams in action, contesting four games.
Ninth Streetball Classic a slam dunk
Seventy young athletes participated in this year's Streetball Classic, a 3-0n-3 double elimination basketball tournament at Niantic Park, Oak Bluffs, an increase of 20 youngsters over last year's Classic.
Sports highlights
The Snaps scored six times in the fourth inning and four more in the fifth to earn a mercy rule win over the scoreless Late Fees at Veterans Park, Tisbury, Tuesday.
Tennis honors for Martha’s Vineyard boys, girls teams
The MVRHS boys tennis team finished the season with a record of 16 wins, two losses.
MV Sharks tied for first after busy week on diamond
The Martha's Vineyard Sharks still remain tied for first place in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League standings with an 11-7 record.
Keystone Kid wins Murdick’s July 4th road race
David Strauss of Orfield, Pa., won the annual Fourth of July five mile Murdick's Fudge Run the Chop Challenge, Monday completing the course in 28:27.
Martha’s Vineyard VFW fluke tourney provides reason to fry
It's no fluke to catch a winning fish on Martha's Vineyard.
Women’s softball notes
This reporter has been chronicling the often impressive athletic exploits of Kelly Silvia for more than a decade, ever since she was the only girl in the MV Little League to today when she holds down the shortstop position for the Honeys and recently drove in seven runs with two circuit blasts to power the sweet ones over the Creamers.
MV Sharks enhance hold on first place FCBL
The Martha's Vineyard Sharks tightened their grip on first place in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England by completing a four game sweep of the Titans, Silver Knights, Mavericks, and Titans, in that order, to go 8-3 on the season, a game and a half ahead of the second place Nashua Knights.
VFA soccer season begins
The Vineyard Football Association kicked off the 2011 summer season with a pair of matches Monday, at Veterans Park in Vineyard Haven.
Brewhas rock Catboats, Blazers win in men’s softball
The Blazers topped the Sons of Pitchers at Veterans War Memorial Park, Monday, 13-9, in a game that saw just one home run, that by Billy Panek of the Blazers.
Top seeds win little league titles
Cubs and Twins take the prizes. Mothers are the best fans.
Sports Highlights
The ninth annual Vineyard Streetball Classic, a 3-on-3 basketball tourney, will tip off at 10 am, Saturday, July 2, at Niantic Park, Oak Bluffs.
Vineyard travel soccer teams bow out in finals, semis of MTOC
Martha's Vineyard sent two boys travel soccer teams to the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions in Lancaster last weekend.
Martha’s Vineyard soccer teams win state tourney openers
Both Martha's Vineyard boys travel soccer teams won their opening matches at the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions, in Lancaster, Friday afternoon.