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...

ORLEANS – It’s normal for teams to celebrate their seniors on senior night. Nearly every high school sports program conducts pregame ceremonies dedicated to their senior class, the majority of which include a presentation and photo opportunities. On Saturday evening, the Nauset boys hockey team’s seniors didn’t want the celebrating to end before they dropped the puck against Martha’s Vineyard. Senior Sam We...

Members of the Nauset wrestling and swimming and diving teams kicked off postseason play over the weekend at their respective sectional tournaments. Peter Silvernail, Henry Rank and Logan Strunk represented the wrestling program at the Division 3 South sectional tournament held in Foxborough. Silvernail finished fourth to earn a spot in the Division 3 divisional state meet on Friday and Saturday at Wakefield H...

The Mashpee-Monomoy Monarchs boys co-op hockey team sent its seniors out in style Saturday night with a lopsided 5-1 victory over Upper Cape Tech at Tony Kent Arena in South Dennis. Senior Chris Matton (Mashpee) anchored the scoring with three goals, while his brother Alex, also a senior, added another. Monomoy senior goaltender Dom Tsoukalas put forth another strong performance to earn the win between the pip...

ORLEANS – Nauset boys hockey coach Connor Brickley recently spoke with a few players and clearly defined his expectations for the team’s late-season push. Senior co-captain Sam Weiner took Brickley’s message to heart. The defenseman from Harwich rose to the occasion during Saturday’s senior day against Martha’s Vineyard, as he scored a goal and tallied an assist to help the Warriors skate to a 4-0 victory o...

HARWICH – The late Tom Petty famously sang “The waiting is the hardest part.” The Monomoy girls basketball team knows exactly what the rock 'n' roll legend was saying. The Sharks moved one step closer toward their goal of winning the Cape and Islands League’s Lighthouse Division title on Thursday when they erased a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit en route to a 52-46 win over St. John Paul II. The team...

HARWICH – What a difference a month can make. A little less than a month after the Cape Cod Tech boys basketball team eked out a 40-39 win at Falmouth Academy on Jan. 9, the Crusaders showed just how far they’ve come when they welcomed the Mariners to Harwich for a rematch Monday night. Cape Tech had its way in every facet of the game, cruising to a 70-39 victory behind junior Trevor Ryone’s season-high 33 ...

NORTH EASTHAM – The Nauset boys basketball team has finally found its footing. After a jumbled start of the season that saw the Warriors rotate wins and losses, the team has settled in to play some of its best basketball when it matters the most. Following back-to-back losses to Cape Cod Academy on Jan. 21 and Old Rochester two days later, Nauset (8-7) has strung together three straight wins over Falmouth (...

NORTH EASTHAM — Leo Miller impacted a lot of Nauset students during the nearly 40 years he spent coaching the high school’s basketball team. All you have to do to recognize Miller’s greatness is to look up at the walls in the school gymnasium, where a banner is raised to celebrate Miller’s 600 th  career win. Although he died in 2016, his legacy lives on and is very much a part of the basketball fabric at Naus...

HARWICH – Ask Brent Warren what separates good players from great players and he’ll tell you that a great player’s impact extends beyond himself. “The sign between a good player and a great player is a great player makes everyone around them play better,” Warren said. “Larry Bird made everybody around him play better.” It’s only fitting that on a night that Warren praised the Boston Celtics’ legendary No. 3...

BUZZARDS BAY – A team doesn’t always need to be perfect in order to pass a test. Although the Dennis-Yarmouth/Cape Cod Tech/Cape Cod Academy boys co-op hockey team was unable to upend defending Division 4 state champion Sandwich in back-to-back games, the Dolphins proved they belong — and can hang with — the Bay State’s best. Just two days after suffering a 2-1 loss to Sandwich at the Tony Kent Arena, the D...