Since 2021, the Dave Whiteside Scholarship has been presented to a girls basketball player from Cape Cod that consistently demonstrates hard work, dedication, commitment, teamwork, leadership and citizenship, as well as working to make basketball fun for those around her. Those are some of the many qualities embodied by Dave Whiteside, who in 2019 died unexpectedly after dealing with complications of pneumonia...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SANDWICH — With limited senior leadership and a young roster, Nauset’s first-year girls basketball coach Jean Leyton expected this year’s Warriors team to experience some growing pains. Finding consistency has been an issue for Nauset, which overcame a double-digit second-half deficit in a 46-40 win over Barnstable on Jan. 17 before struggling to stick with Sandwich in a 58-26 loss three days later. “I feel...

The majority of high school sports teams starts their season with goals. Many teams aim to win their respective league title, while others set their goals higher and vie for a state tournament appearance. Although many coaches preach the importance of navigating their season with a “one game at a time” approach, local Lower Cape teams are beginning to see where they stand among their peers that are also workin...

HANOVER – The streak has been snapped. For the first couple weeks of the season, the Cape Cod Tech girls basketball team was among the best in the Mayflower Athletic Conference. During their streak, the Crusaders boasted a stingy defense and saw multiple girls contribute offensively to help the team open the season with a 5-0 record. Cape Tech’s pursuit of a perfect season was halted Friday when first-half ...

FALMOUTH – There was a brief period during the preseason that Cape Cod Tech boys basketball coach Brent Warren had the opportunity to see the full potential of his Crusaders squad. That potential hasn’t materialized — at least not yet — because one of the Crusaders’ best players, senior captain Lucas Gurski, has been sidelined since the first week of the season. Even with Gurski out of the lineup, Cape Tech...