CHATHAM ─ When the Chatham Skate Park at the airport was demolished in 2013, skateboarders, scooter tricksters, BMX bikers, and roller-bladers were left with nowhere to roll, let alone catch some air, unless they wanted to travel. Thankfully, the new skate park opened at Volunteer Park in December, and has been impressing everyone from beginners to seasoned skaters since. On a recent sunny summer afternoon t...

For some students, prepping for their first year of college means a summer filled with specific books to read. For Monomoy graduate Jen Keim college prep meant a summer filled with golf, and lots of it, including several key tournament wins and finishes. “I finished my last tournament yesterday before college,” said Keim during a phone interview that took place two days before she made the trek to Florida Atla...

HARWICH ─ Monomoy jiu jitsu teacher John Herring won't do anything he wouldn't expect his students to do, which is why on Saturday Herring, a brown belt, took to the mats of the Sapateiro Invitational against black belt opponent Matt Arroyo in Herring's first-ever pay-per-view event. Though Herring fell to Arroyo during a transition in which Arroyo seized an opportunity to put him in a choke hold, he learned...

CHATHAM ─ The music has stopped at Veterans Field. While some neighbors of the ballpark might feel a sense of relief, true baseball fans know what the silence means: another summer season of the Chatham Anglers has come to a close. Fans knew it was baseball time when the tunes started playing through the sound system beginning in June, peppered with the announcements of players at bat, the on-field action, h...

HARWICH ─ After a whirlwind summer in which the mantra was pretty much eat, sleep and breathe baseball, the players that comprised the 2016 Harwich Mariners have headed home. Save for a handful of local club team games, Whitehouse Field is quiet, the lights that glowed almost nightly now dimmed. But the whispers of another standout summer still echo in the dugouts, the outfield, and in the countless memories ma...

CHATHAM ─ In spite of some bumps along the way, the Chatham Anglers enjoyed a pretty magical summer in which they eked into the Cape League playoffs, but all good things must come to an end, including Chatham's 2016 season, which came to a close with losses to the Y-D Red Sox in the East Division finals. But what a run it was. The Anglers hovered in last place, trailing behind Brewster in the points race unt...

After a season of struggle, the Chatham Anglers stunned fans from both Chatham and Harwich by defeating the Harwich Mariners in two of the three East Division playoff games to advance in the Cape Cod Baseball League tourney. On Friday, the East Division Champion Mariners hosted the Anglers, with the visitors claiming a 3-1 victory in nine innings to take Game 1 of the best of two series. Bringing in the runs f...

HARWICH ─ It took one big inning for the Chatham Anglers to take a huge lead against the Harwich Mariners on Friday, and one big inning for the Mariners to take that lead away, ultimately winning the last contest between the two teams, playoffs pending, 6-4. After two innings of 1-2-3 baseball, the Anglers struck in the third, scoring four runs to take a commanding lead in the game. Leading off the hitting w...

HARWICH ─ The Hyannis Harbor Hawks had five hits, the Harwich Mariners four, but within those four hits were just enough runs that the home team needed to eke out a 2-1 win as the end of the regular season fast approaches. It helped that the Mariners had the pitching prowess of stellar southpaw Packy Naughton to fall back on. The West Roxbury native pitched seven solid innings for Harwich, allowing just thre...

CHATHAM ─ What do you do when your team is fighting for a spot in the playoffs and you're facing the top team in the league? If you're the Chatham Anglers, you come out swinging, and if you're pitcher Caleb Gilbert, you give it everything you've got en route to an impressive 9-3 victory against the Falmouth Commodores that puts you that much closer to the post-season. At the start of Monday night's game the ...

CHATHAM ─ The West Division All-Stars were on fire in the 2016 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game on Saturday, but it wasn't from the hot, humid weather. Instead, it was their bats that were blazing as the best of the West defeated the beasts of the East 8-0 at Veterans Field. BJ Myers of the Harwich Mariners took the mound for the East at the start of the annual event, shutting down the first three West...

CHATHAM ─ Don't be fooled by the significant collection of soccer balls tucked around Caroline Kennard's house. While the 10-year-old from Chatham definitely possesses a love of the game, there's another sport she also loves that recently earned her a big win: competitive jump rope. Forget what you remember from your playground days. Competitive jump rope is a sport that takes skipping rope to new heights th...