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...

ORLEANS – Cape Cod Furies assistant coach LJ Fellows had a feeling that Sophia Boucher was going to have a big game. His hunch couldn’t have been more accurate. Boucher, a Nauset sophomore and Orleans resident, scored both goals in the opening round of the Division 1 state tournament to propel the Furies to a 2-0 win over Reading for the co-op program’s first postseason win. “LJ called it before the game...

The final play didn’t work out the way Nauset’s first-year boys basketball coach Kevin Harrigan drew it up. However, in the end, the coach and his team got the result they were searching for. And the Warriors are moving on. After trailing for most of Monday’s Division 2 preliminary-round matchup at No. 26 Fitchburg, 39 th -seeded Nauset hung around and made its move in the final two quarters of play. The...

It’s that time of year when teams either win or go home. For the Monomoy girls basketball team, the hope is to keep on practicing. That’s the message Monomoy coach Brian Tomasini has preached to his team — and especially the seniors — before the Sharks visit Winthrop for a Division 4 state tournament Round of 32 matchup at 6 p.m. Friday. “The team knows how important every day is,” Tomasini said. “Our mantr...

Cape Cod Furies head coach Zach Wells couldn’t help but let some emotions slip out after he saw the team drew a home game against Reading in the opening round of the Division 1 state tournament. “When I first saw it, I think I laughed out loud because of the odds,” said Wells, the first-year coach for the Furies, a co-op team open to girls from Nauset, Monomoy and Cape Cod Tech. Wells was on the bench as an...

Dillon White didn’t panic. He hardly had a chance to give the weight of the shot a second thought. The Nauset senior from Brewster was Captain Clutch for the Warriors boys basketball team Monday night, as he made a game-winning jump shot with seven seconds remaining to propel the team to a 59-58 victory over Fitchburg in a Division 2 preliminary-round tilt. “I wasn’t really thinking about it,” White said. “...

It’s not uncommon for teams to outline their goals before the season starts. Often, teams place an emphasis on qualifying for the state tournament, while some hope to capture a league title on their way to the postseason. Two local basketball teams, the Monomoy girls and Nauset boys, will head to the postseason with the title of league champion after winning their respective Cape and Islands League divisions. ...