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For the second season in a row, every eligible Vineyard team has qualified for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association tournament.
The softball team defeated Bourne 11-5 on Friday for their 10th win of the season, making them the final squad to advance to the playoffs. The girls earned an eleventh-hour trip to the postseason last year as well, winning four out of their last six games.
Four hundred and forty runners took place in the annual Memorial Day 5K, held in Oak Bluffs on Sunday. Chris Magill of Cumberland, R.I. took first place, 12 seconds ahead of Cory Loonan, of Oak Bluffs, who finished in 16 minutes and 14 seconds.
Marisa Strange of Pleasant Valley, N.Y. was the first female finisher, coming in at 18 minutes and 50 seconds. A full list of runners and their results is available at http://www.coolrunning.com/results/12/ma/May27_OakBlu_set1.shtml.
Senior pitcher Will Stewart allowed just four hits Friday afternoon against visiting Bourne, pitching a complete game shutout in his final regular-season appearance on the mound. The Vineyarders defeated the Canalmen 3-0 to end the season with a 12-8 record. They will learn their seeding for the MIAA tournament on Tuesday.
Parades, a concert and flowers tossed into town harbors by school children — on the Vineyard, Memorial Day weekend is marked by many longstanding traditions featuring the young and old alike.
The storied American eel was once one of the Vineyard’s most valued resources.
Even though the eel now faces hard times, memories are still fresh of the role the American eel played in Vineyard waters, where it was shipped to the mainland in barrels. Generations of native Islanders regarded it once as a staple food. Locally harvested eel was as familiar and as local as boiled lobster, stuffed quahaugs and bay scallops sautéed in butter.
In a dramatic reversal of fishing fortune, the last few weeks have offered the best squid fishing in years.