Menemsha Pond means different things to different people. For Dr. Sidney (Skip) Pierce, a professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, the pond is a place where discovery begins. It is the home of a sea slug.

When Tim and Trisha Colon bought a sailboat in Duluth, Minn., bringing the 45-foot boat home became a family adventure. With their two children, the Colons sailed the boat through the Great Lakes, down the Hudson River and across Long Island Sound to Vineyard Haven harbor.

Rainy weather and a slippery, muddy field made little difference to the Vineyard boys’ soccer players Thursday night, as a hat trick by the team’s leading scorer and a strong showing from both veterans and newcomers powered the team to a decisive 4-1 postseason win over visiting Old Rochester.

Sports travel for an Island school takes what is already a complicated endeavor — ensuring that hundreds of student athletes and their coaches get from Point A to Point B and back safely — and throws in a seven-mile wide obstacle in the form of the Vineyard Sound.

Rasmus Sayre, a senior at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, took home the championship title in the Kona One class on Wednesday, after five days of racing in Islamorada, Fla. Sayre, 17, won six of 12 races.

A rough and scrappy contest before a raucous home crowd ended in a win for the Vineyard boys’ soccer team as they defeated visiting Bishop Stang 2-0 in the first round of the postseason tournament. The next game is Thursday against Old Rochester at home.