Ivy Ashe
Football plays its second-to-last home game of the season tonight at 6:30 p.m., taking on Eastern Athletic Conference opponent Bishop Stang.
The field hockey squad took on Plymouth South in its first post-season game on Thursday afternoon. Game coverage is available online at www.mvgazette.com
Boys’ soccer plays its first tournament game in an away game against Scituate Sunday at 3:30 p.m., and the varsity cross country runners compete in the Coaches’ Invitational this Saturday in Wrentham.
The middle school track season came to a close last Friday in the annual five-school meet, held at the regional high school track. The West Tisbury girls picked up their second season-ending win in two years, finishing with 51 points. Oak Bluffs scored 35, holding off Edgartown (30 points). Tisbury finished with six points, and the charter school notched five. In the boys’ meet, Edgartown brought home the victory for their school with 59 points. West Tisbury took second with 29 points, just four more than third-place finisher Oak Bluffs.
As the regular sports season drew to a close, Senior Day proved a rousing success for the three Vineyard teams competing at home on Saturday. The field hockey team took on Division 1 Needham in a morning match-up, fighting to a 1-1 tie. Senior Kendall Robinson scored the lone Vineyard goal on an assist from senior Alex Clark in the first half, but Needham evened the score in the second.
Two early goals in Tuesday’s home game against the Barnstable Red Raiders proved all the Vineyarders would need to secure their spot in the postseason tournament. The team is the third Vineyard squad to advance to tournament play.
Two early goals in Tuesday's home game against the Barnstable Red Raiders proved all the Vineyarders would need to secure their spot in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association postseason tournament. The final score was 2-1. The team is the third Vineyard squad to advance to tournament play: field hockey and golf clinched their berths two weeks ago.
Junior Kane Araujo scored unassisted less than 10 minutes into the first half. Senior captain Jack Roberts followed up Araujo's goal not long after with an arcing shot from 25 yards out that blew past Barnstable's keeper.
Jacqueline Woodson, 49, stood in front of the seated crowd of Oak Bluffs School eighth graders last Friday morning, holding a copy of her 2005 young adult novel, Behind You. The book was a mere prop, though. Ms. Woodson never glanced at its pages as she pulled the book’s first vignette from memory.