EASTHAM –The connection and bond between the Nauset swimming and diving teams is easy to spot. Make your way to Willy’s Gym in Eastham for one of the Warriors’ home meets and their togetherness will be on full display. Although swimmers often attack their events with an individual focus and determination, they are never really alone as they make their way up and down their respective swimming lanes. Instead...

Every team needs a tone-setter. They are a player that the rest of the team and coaches can look to when adversity strikes and the team needs a boost. For the Monomoy girls basketball team, that tone-setter is senior Lucy Mawn, who has mastered her responsibility of being a lockdown defender. The Harwich resident has been a key contributor for the Sharks this winter, helping the team get off to a 3-2 start ...

Alex Lumb was sitting on the couch with his fiancée, Brooke Sneeuwjagt, when his phone lit up with an incoming call from Cape Cod Baseball League President Chuck Sturtevant. “When the phone rings and it says Chuck, you’re thinking, ‘Oh my, what went bad?’” said Lumb, “but then he told me congratulations.” Sturtevant was calling Lumb with celebratory news, informing him that he had been named the Cape League...

For many, the sight of the calendar turning to a new year often brings a sense of excitement and energy. As much as we were looking forward, the first few weeks of 2022 felt like a continuation of the two years that preceded it, as COVID-19 outbreaks forced area schools to pause their respective sports seasons, raising the question of whether this year would finally bring the “new normal” that had been promised t...

EASTHAM – With multiple girls out due to illness, the Nauset girls swimming and diving team knew it was going to need some members to step up in the team’s final meet of the 2022 portion of its schedule. Sophomore Lila Keeney answered the call to help the Warriors close out the calendar year with a narrow 78-77 victory over Barnstable on Dec. 22 at Willie’s Gym. Keeney, a Harwich resident, finished first in...

SOUTH DENNIS – With more than a dozen seniors on his roster, longtime coach Lew Alberti had a feeling that this year’s Dennis Yarmouth/Cape Cod Tech/Cape Cod Academy co-op boys hockey team might be a special group. Even with that inkling, Alberti didn’t know just how dominant his squad would be to start the season. Following a 10-3 thrashing of Assabet Valley to open the season, DY/CCT/CCA took care of Mashpee...

HARWICH – It’s not always easy for first-year coaches to ask players to do new things. It can be especially challenging when the players are seniors with years of experiencing working with certain systems and schedules. Cape Cod Tech’s new girls basketball coach Nick Conti has asked the girls to alter their habits while incorporating new ones — including practicing on Saturdays — this winter. The result has...

NORTH EASTHAM – James Rosato is no stranger to Nauset Regional High School. Although he walked through the halls and spent plenty of time in the school’s gymnasium before graduating in 2008, Rosato didn’t have any involvement with the school’s wrestling team. He does now. The Nauset graduate is back at his alma mater coaching the wrestling team this winter. “I didn’t wrestle in high school, but I came in...

SOUTH DENNIS – Kyle Zabaleta made his way out of the locker room with a new piece of equipment — a green plastic hard hat featuring a prominent D-Y hockey sticker — following the Dennis-Yarmouth/Cape Cod Tech/Cape Cod Academy co-op boys hockey team’s 7-0 win over Mashpee/Monomoy. “It’s like a game puck kind of thing,” Zabaleta said of the hat, which was given to him by his teammate Robbie McPhee, a D-Y freshma...

NORTH EASTHAM – Monomoy girls basketball coach Brian Tomasini doesn’t want to take this year’s team’s athleticism for granted. That’s why the Sharks placed such an emphasis on conditioning during preseason tryouts and practices. The hard work paid off in the team’s first game, as Tomasini and Monomoy showcased their defensive tenacity during a 45-36 season-opening victory over Nauset on Friday in North Eastham...

ORLEANS – The new era of Nauset boys hockey couldn’t have started any better. Led by first-year coach Connor Brickley, a former professional and the nephew of Bruins legend and TV commentator Andy Brickley, the Warriors have outscored opponents 17-5 through their first two games. Nauset opened the season Thursday with a dominant 10-1 road victory at St. John Paul II before skating to a 7-4 win over Nantucke...

HARWICH – It’s difficult enough for a team to jell when all of the players are familiar with each other. The task of getting teammates to grow closer with each other becomes a little more challenging when the players come from different backgrounds. With each of the four grades accounted for on its roster, the Monomoy boys basketball team has no choice but to bond with each other. Not only did the Sharks work ...