EASTHAM — Nauset’s lacrosse teams earned hard-fought wins last week while boys and girls track overcame Barnstable High School to open the spring sports season. The boys lacrosse team pulled […]
Sports
BASEBALL
Junior Chase Beach Is the Ace in This Year’s Rotation
His velocity tops out at just over 86 m.p.h.
EASTHAM — Nauset High junior Chase Beach eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball. “I’m thinking about baseball all the time,” says Beach. “When I wake up, I’m thinking about baseball, and […]
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Seven Varsity Teams Open the Spring Season
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Seven Nauset boys and girls varsity teams get their spring seasons underway this week, with golf highlighting a busy schedule with a pair of matches. The Warriors girls […]
SETTERS
The Truro Community Center Hosts a Semi-Serious Volleyball Season
The games are about having fun, but there’s a glint of competitiveness in players’ eyes
TRURO — With the spring equinox just past, a familiar antsiness is on the rise. To fight it, Outer Cape residents have flocked full throttle to the biweekly volleyball games […]
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Seven Varsity Teams Begin Practice for Spring
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School spring sports season officially got underway on Monday with seven varsity teams returning to practice. Nauset baseball starts its first season under Coach […]
BASKETBALL
The Massachusetts Wolves Want to Go Far
Provincetown’s Jay Luster works to bring Cape Cod talent to a new ABA team
PROVINCETOWN — While Cape Cod and the Islands boast a strong culture of high school sports, the region has historically lacked a local college or professional team for residents to […]
NAUSET HOCKEY
Warriors Fall to Watertown in Quarterfinal
Building a hockey culture sometimes hurts
ORLEANS — At the end, the Nauset High boys hockey team deserved better than it got. This year’s team, led by a sizable senior class contingent, brought the program to […]
THE LURE
Casting Flies for Holdover Trout and Nostalgia
At Gull Pond, fishing is a reprieve from daydreams about the striper run
Friends recently asked me what I fish for during the winter months. It was the evening of our odd one-day cold snap, and we were sitting around slurping fresh oysters […]
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Hockey Boys Stay Alive in Tourney With Overtime Win
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys hockey team stayed alive in the Division 3 State Tournament thanks to overtime heroics, while the boys basketball team and the Cape Cod Furies each […]
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Boys Knock Off Fitchburg to Advance in State Tourney
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys basketball team secured a dramatic 59-58 comeback win over Fitchburg High School on Monday night in the MIAA Division 2 State Tournament to advance to […]
FINAL WHISTLE
Jody Quill Remembers 50 Years of Games
At home at the Nauset gym as a student, a coach, and a scorekeeper
EASTHAM — Jody Quill was there when Nauset Regional High School’s gym opened in December 1971. And she was there when the final game was played in the gym on […]
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Runners Mahoney, Brown, Bebber, and Roche Qualify for Meet of Champions
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset’s indoor track and swim teams found success at their respective State Championships while the boys basketball team added a Cape and Islands Atlantic Division championship to their […]
ROUNDBALL STRATEGY
Provincetown Boys Lose Every Game but Win Every Heart
A team of six players takes on teams with three times as many
PROVINCETOWN — If sports were all about numbers, the Provincetown boys basketball season would not have been much fun.
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Goalie Figueiredo Posts First Shutout Against Vineyarders
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset High teams are rapidly approaching postseason play as boys and girls hockey, boys basketball, and swimming are all jockeying for position in their respective leagues. The boys […]
BASKETBALL
A New Head Coach Builds on John McCarthy’s Foundation
Kevin Harrigan says he wants to create a culture of good habits
EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys basketball program moved into a new era following the departure of longtime Head Coach John McCarthy before the 2022-23 season. A familiar face and […]