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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

HARWICH – The Monomoy boys basketball team couldn’t have scripted a better senior send-off. All season, Sharks coach Dan Taylor has talked about the team’s goal of being at its best at the end of the season. That goal materialized into a perfect game on Valentine’s Day, when the squad celebrated its three seniors — Michael Desir, Jeffrey Kimball and Charles Seif — with an 84-30 victory over crosstown rival ...

NORTH EASTHAM — For more than 50 years, the Nauset Regional High School gymnasium served as a gathering place for school events. The space hosted Warriors basketball, volleyball, wrestling and cheer competitions, as well as pep rallies, graduation ceremonies and countless physical education classes. Nauset’s girls basketball team did the honor of saying farewell to the gym Friday night as it closed out its sea...

It was a busy weekend for Nauset athletes, as members of the track and field, swimming and diving and wrestling programs each competed during their respective state championships. The boys and girls track and field teams both turned in top 15 performances at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, with the girls claiming a seventh-place finish and the boys finishing 15 th . Sophomore Madeline Mahoney and freshma...

Ever since he was in eighth grade, Nauset swimmer Tim Johnson dreamed of what it would feel like to stand atop the podium after being crowned a state champion. On Sunday morning at the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center at MIT, Johnson finally got to experience the feeling he coveted — twice. Johnson, a Nauset senior from Brewster, capped off his Warriors career by winning individual Division 2 state titles ...

HARWICH – The nervousness of members of the Cape Cod Tech girls basketball team was palpable during the first half of Monday’s regular-season finale against Falmouth Academy. The Crusaders missed easy baskets, and they threw passes away for turnovers. “The nerves were up,” first-year Cape Tech coach Nick Conti said. “We had a lot of fans.” Although the nerves of playing what will likely be the team’s eig...