Long before she was representing Team USA, Sara Roderick was a standout athlete at Nauset Regional High School. The Truro native was a star playing soccer, basketball and softball, though it was her success competing for the Warriors’ track and field team which led her to the University of Vermont, where she continued her athletic career on the track. It was at UVM that Roderick discovered skeleton, a winter s...

Brendan Pursel is no stranger to Monomoy lacrosse. Since 2018, he’s helped lead the Sharks’ boys program as an assistant in addition to leading the boys junior varsity program the past couple seasons. Now Pursel is gearing up for a new challenge: taking over the girls program as its varsity head coach. “This is my first time coaching girls and being a head coach,” said Pursel, an East Greenbush, N.Y. native...

CHATHAM – For the past few months, the fun that fills the Monomoy Middle School gymnasium during the school week has spilled into Saturdays. Due to construction on the gym at the old Harwich Cultural Center, now known as 204 Sisson, the Harwich Police Soccer Club’s indoor futsal program shifted to the middle school for this winter’s season, the 10 th  since the program began in 2012. “We had to pivot the we...

The Craig brothers can’t get enough soccer. Throughout the winter, Sawyer, 11, and his 13-year-old brother, Jackson, were among the 185 to 190 children who took part in the Harwich Police Soccer Club’s indoor futsal program at Monomoy Middle School. Futsal maintains the basic rules of soccer, though it’s a quicker version and held on a gymnasium floor. “I like it because it’s a lot more fast paced,” Jackson...

ORLEANS — It was one of the most memorable hockey games played recently at Charles Moore Arena. The result just didn’t go the hometown Nauset Warriors’ way.  The fourth-seeded Nauset boys hockey team saw its season end in heartbreaking fashion after it suffered a 3-2 loss to fifth-seeded Watertown-Wayland in the Division 3 state tournament quarterfinals March 8 at Charles Moore Arena. The visiting Raiders...

BUZZARDS BAY — After suffering one-goal losses in both of the teams’ regular-season meetings, the Dennis-Yarmouth/Cape Cod Tech/Cape Cod Academy boys hockey co-op team was hopeful the old “third time’s a charm” expression would ring true when they met Sandwich for a third game.  The Blue Knights had other plans. Second-seeded Sandwich, the defending Division 4 state champion, pulled away from number seven...

Lower Cape athletes were well represented when the Cape and Islands League released its awards for the 2022-23 winter sports season. Monomoy senior Melissa Velasquez was named the league’s Maritime Division girls basketball co-Most Valuable Player, sharing the award with Lili Shanahan from Cape Cod Academy. Joining Velasquez as an All Star were her teammates and classmates, Helen DiGiovanni and Lucy Mawn, whil...

ORLEANS — As the clock ticked down, the pressure ramped up. And Nauset junior Cam Connery delivered.  Connery, a Yarmouth resident, scored the game-tying goal that evened the score of Nauset’s Division 3 boys hockey state quarterfinal game against Watertown-Wayland at 2. It was the second one-goal deficit the Warriors erased in the game, as sophomore Logan Poulin answered to the tie the game at 1 after th...

ORLEANS – There’s something about tense moments that bring the best out of Logan Valine. One year after Valine netted the overtime goal in Nauset’s first-round victory over North Middlesex in last year’s Division 3 boys hockey state tournament, the senior forward from Harwich dialed up more heroics to clinch another postseason win at Charles Moore Arena. Valine scored the game-winner in Saturday’s 3-2 win o...

ORLEANS — Over the past few years, the Cape Cod Furies girls hockey co-op team has blossomed from a start-up program open to girls from Nauset, Monomoy and Cape Cod Tech into one of the more prominent programs on the Cape. Although the team had garnered respect from its peers around the area and beyond, the Furies were still in search of validation through one measure: a postseason win. It was a long time c...

SOUTH DENNIS – The Division 4 state tournament has provided the Dennis-Yarmouth/Cape Cod Tech/Cape Cod Academy boys co-op hockey team with a few firsts. After surviving Bourne in the opening round to capture D-Y’s first postseason win in more than 20 years, the seventh-seeded Dolphins made some more history when they pulled away from No. 10 Ashland for a 4-1 victory Sunday afternoon at Tony Kent Arena. “It’...

The Monomoy girls basketball team was looking to make one final push to overcome its deficit. Winthrop, however, had other plans. The 21 st -seeded Sharks saw their season come to an end Friday when they suffered a 52-35 loss to No. 12 Winthrop in the first round of the Division 4 state tournament. “We got off to a great start and then we got into a little foul trouble down low and that changed our game pla...