The girls soccer team lost 3-0 to fourth seeded Norwell in Sunday's second round playoff game, finishing a strong season with 12 wins, 2 ties and 6 losses.
Fifty years after being exchange students at the regional high school, Claudio Mac-Lean and Daniel Poletto came back to the Island this week to see their old host families and reminisce about helping start the high school's soccer team.
The Vineyarders won the Island Cup for the second year in a row, with a dynamic 24-21 win over the Whalers. The boys and girls soccer teams were also victorious Saturday, each winning an inaugural Golden Anchor trophy.
Regional high school student Violet MacPhail organized a panel that included documentary producers and an Olympic gold medal winner to talk about women's rights and modern-day sexism in sports.
The Vineyard girls soccer team has picked up right where they left off last season, dominating their opponents by way of relentless attack and near-impenetrable defense.
On Friday, under the lights on a crisp early-fall night, the Vineyard football team defeated the Lunenburg Knights 16-3 to improve their record to 2-1.
With the turn of the calendar comes the return of fall high school sports on the Vineyard. And after last's year strong showing, the hype has returned, too.
Longtime basketball coach Mike Joyce is now also the coach for the girls club golf team. Later this year, he will apply to register girls golf as a varsity sport at the high school.
