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Erez Ben-Akiva. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTO

Erez Ben-Akiva Takes Over Chronicle Sports Desk

CHATHAM – What does it take to be a good sports reporter?You’ve got to have talent as a writer and photographer, training and experience as a...

Senior Sawyer McCutchen passes the ball during Nauset’s 20-6 tournament win Monday against Montachusett. He scored four first-quarter goals in the first round game. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Athlete Of The Week: Sawyer McCutchen

NORTH EASTHAM – Less than eight minutes had gone by during Nauset boys lacrosse’s first game of the Division 3 state tournament Monday, and senior...

Senior captain Lucy Bates cradles the ball during Monomoy’s 16-7 loss last Friday to North Reading in the first round of the Division 4 state tournament. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Monomoy Girls Lacrosse Runs Out Of Time In State Tournament

NORTH READING – To head coach Brendan Pursel, the Monomoy girls lacrosse team didn’t lose. They just ran out of time.That message, coupled with the...

The Monomoy girls tennis team is one of many Lower Cape teams competing in postseason state tournaments. FILE PHOTO

Lower Cape Teams Compete In Postseason Play

As the school year nears its end, spring sports enter the postseason and the state championship tournaments that come with it.Several Monomoy and...

Freshman Jack Peno runs in front of junior Oscar Escher during Nauset’s 20-6 tournament win Monday against Montachusett. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Nauset Boys Lacrosse Scores 20 In Tournament Opener Win

NORTH EASTHAM – Nine first quarter goals powered the Nauset boys lacrosse team in a dominating start Monday to their run in the Division 3 state...

Junior captain Julia Kipperman runs with the ball during Nauset’s 17-15 win last Thursday against Archbishop Williams in the first round of the Division 3 state tournament. Kipperman scored 12 goals. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Nauset Wins Back-And-Forth First Round Tournament Game

NORTH EASTHAM – After beating Bishop Stang over a month ago, Nauset girls lacrosse senior captain Abby Powers said she hoped the team could start a...

Carley Stauffer will be Monomoy’s next girls basketball coach, the school announced last Friday. MONOMOY ATHLETICS PHOTO

Monomoy Announces New Girls Basketball Coach

HARWICH – A new coach will lead the Monomoy girls basketball team next season, the school announced last Friday.Carley Stauffer has been hired as...

Michael Medlin of the Cape Crushers mountain bike team rides a trail. STEPHEN SIMINSKI PHOTO

Lower Cape Kids Compete On Crushers Mountain Bike Team

Io Torrellas had already won five of five mountain biking races a couple years ago when, during the sixth and final race, she got a flat tire....

Sophomore Ryan Delaney pursues a Sturgis East player. Delaney scored three goals in Cape Cod Tech’s 12-2 win. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Cape Cod Tech Boys Lacrosse Earns Long-Awaited Win Streak

WEST BARNSTABLE – On a Monday and Tuesday in April 2022, the Cape Cod Tech boys lacrosse team picked up back-to-back early season wins. More than...

Nauset sophomore Sophia Silvestri hits a driver at the second hole during a match Monday against Monomoy. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Monomoy, Nauset Girls Golf Thrive Through Team Chemistry

HARWICH – The late sports author John Feinstein once wrote that no sport is as solitary as golf. And yet to the golfers at Monomoy and Nauset, it’s...

Senior Aidan Schafer runs with the ball during Cape Cod Tech’s 12-2 win Friday over Sturgis East. Schafer scored three goals in the victory. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Athlete Of The Week: Aidan Schafer

WEST BARNSTABLE – Cape Cod Tech’s win Friday against Sturgis East might have been particularly sweet for Aidan Schafer, the only senior on the...

After four and a half years at the Cape Cod Chronicle, sports reporter Brad Joyal is moving on from journalism. FILE PHOTOS

Chronicle Sports Reporter Brad Joyal Bids Farewell

When I was a young boy, I’d often wake up in the morning and find a sports story cut out of the local newspaper waiting for me on my kitchen table...

Craig Nichols and Matthew recently celebrated their one-year anniversary as Big and Little through the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentorship program. Over the weekend, Nichols ran the Falmouth Road Race to raise funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters. COURTESY PHOTO

Harwich Port Resident Runs Falmouth Road Race For Hyannis Youth

August 21, 2024

HARWICH PORT – Craig Nichols was ready for a new chapter.As he started thinking about approaching his retirement from IBM, the 64-year-old Harwich...

Monomoy seniors Paul Carlson, left, and Connor Francis. BRAD JOYAL PHOTO

Athletes Of The Week: Connor Francis & Paul Carlson

by Brad JoyalHARWICH - The Monomoy boys tennis team's first doubles pairing was determined to earn a win.On Monday, seniors Paul Carlson and...

Chatham native Ketchum Marsh fell in love while playing Little League and serving as a bat boy for the Chatham A’s. Now living in Tampa, Marsh spends his time traveling to baseball fields to evaluate talent while working as an area scout for the Milwaukee Brewers. COURTESY PHOTOS

Chatham Native Ketchum Marsh’s Love For Baseball Goes Full Circle...

If you want to be a baseball scout, you have to listen to your gut and trust your intuition. That was one of the first lessons Chatham native...

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