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...

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...

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...