Doug and Marissa Kenny are no strangers to the thrill that comes with crossing a finish line. In addition to owning and operating The Orleans Center for Dental Excellence, the married couple from Orleans are also avid runners, bikers and hikers, who have completed 18 marathons together. While all marathons are exciting, this year’s Boston Marathon on April 17 will be especially memorable for the couple, who ar...

HARWICH – At the end of a strong pitching performance by Monomoy starter Andrew Clifford, some early-season rust showed up and proved costly for the Sharks in the final innings. Monomoy dropped its season opener to visiting Mashpee on Monday afternoon after the Falcons capitalized on some defensive miscues by the Sharks to score three runs in the sixth and three more in the seventh en route to a 6-1 victory at...

HARWICH – The smiles were big, the cheers were deafening, and the dance moves were electric. And that doesn’t even account for the basketball, which was full of highlights. The local community packed the Monomoy Regional High School gymnasium on Friday night when the Harlem Wizards basketball team visited town for an exhibition game against Monomoy students, teachers and faculty. Like the Harlem Globetro...

HARWICH – On a day in which the Monomoy baseball team’s bats were stymied by poor luck, sophomore Finn Hyora came through late to provide the Sharks with their only run during Monday’s 6-1 season-opening loss to Mashpee. Hyora, a Chatham resident, went 2 for 4 at the plate, finishing with a single and an RBI double that one-hopped the left-field fence at Whitehouse Field. The double — which came with two outs ...

For decades, Jerry Gordon built his reputation as a defensive virtuoso on the gridiron. His passion for coaching football led him from the University of Massachusetts, Northeastern and Yale campuses to the high school ranks, where he taught and coached at high schools in Virginia, Sandwich, and most recently at Nauset. Although teaching and coaching throughout the East Coast provided Gordon with many memorable...

The effect of last year’s historic season served as motivation for the Monomoy girls golf team throughout the winter. The Sharks have remained hungry after posting a 12-0 regular season, capturing the Cape and Islands League title and finishing as the runner-up at last spring’s state championship. “A group of about six girls have been hitting simulators and practicing two or three times a week through the wint...

NORTH EASTHAM – Minutes after the buzzer sounded to mark the end of Monday’s scrimmage against Monomoy, Nauset girls lacrosse coach Heather Stevens reflected on what she saw and how it differed from last year’s preseason scrimmage against the Sharks. There was a lot that the Warriors’ coach liked about Monday’s 11-11 draw, though Stevens was especially happy to see her team’s depth and how well the players wor...

For the past two seasons, Bailey Nobili has had to sit on the sidelines and watch her Nauset girls lacrosse teammates play without her. Nobili played five games as a sophomore before missing the rest of the season with a fractured tibia. Then, as a junior, she only suited up for one game before shutting herself down for surgeries on both of her feet. “I had bi-lateral surgery on both of my feet that I chose...

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...