Your account does not include highlighter on images.
Searches Highlighted on Image
| January 6, 2006 Barnstable Patriot |  |
|
©
Publisher. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 11 (11 of 24 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
January 6, 2006 |
|
|
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader 
|
BHS gymnastics off to strong start
Raiders sweep all
four events in Carver
By David Curran
dcurran@barnstablepatriot.com
MelissaBowe andMegKilmurray
led the BHS gymnastics team to
a 136.55-117.75 win in its season-
opening meet in Carver Monday.
Bowe won two events and was
second in the other two to lead
in all-around scoring with 36.7
points. Senior cocaptain MegKil-
murray followed with 33.35 points
on the strength of a second and
three thirds.
"The kids did great, better than
I expected on most events," said
coach Duncan Chase.
With a couple of falls costing
the team points on the balance
beam, he said, "We're working a
lot on the beam this week."
"The vaulting was really out-
standing," he added,
Junior Alison Szatek had a per-
sonal best of 9.45 to win the vault,
and Bowe was right behind with
her own personal best of 9.4.
Szatek's9.25 won the floor exer-
cise, with Bowe second at 9.0
Bowe won the parallel bars with
a 9.3 and the beam with a 9.0.
Kilmurray took second on the
beam with an 8.1 and was third
on the floor (8.55), the vault (8.5)
and the bars (8.2).
Szatek was second on the bars
with a 9.0, and senior cocaptain
Marissa Jones rounded out the
scoring with 7.8 points to take
third on the beam.
But the upperclassmen weren't
the only ones who impressed.
Despite first-meet nerves, some
freshmen submitted performances
that augur bright futures , Chase
said. Stephanie Saunders turned
in an 8.2 to place fourth on the
vault, and Shelby Conture scored
a 6.8 on the beam.
"She's going to be very good in
the future ," said the coach.
Sophomore Caitlyn Emerson
surprised with a 7.75 in her first
floor exercise, doubly impressive
because Carver's floor, unlike the
one the Raiders use at Gymport
in West Yarmouth, is not spring-
supported.
"She did a greatjob ,"Chase said.
"I didn't expect what she showed
me on floor."
He said he's looking forward
to seeing the younger gymnasts
in tomorrow 's home-opening tri-
meet against Plymouth South and
Nantucket.
"The kids should be used to
the equipment , feel a little more
comfortable ," said the coach.
Chase said he'd like to see the
team get its total scoring up to
138 or 139 points as the season
progresses, but the girlsare aiming
higher, for the low 140s.
"They want tomake it to (South)
Sectionals and States, and I don't
see a problem with that ," he said.
But he said he keeps cautioning
his charges that they will not see
the best competition the state
has to offer unless they get past
the South Sectionals to take on
Nort h Sectional powers Danvers ,
the defending state champion ,
and Reading. Last year 's Raiders
finished third in the state behind
those two schools, ending a string
of four consecutive state champi-
onships.
BHS girls hockey aims high
Raiders not satis-
fied with 3-2 start
By David Curran
dcurran@barnstablepatnot.com
For the BHS girls hockey team,
OK isn't OK.
"We want to be one of the last
two teams standing" when the
high school hockey season ends
with the state tournament in
March , said coach Kim Sullivan.
"I honestly believe you gotta
shoot for the top. It's not OK to
play OK."
With that in mind, the Raiders'
3-2 record to start the season was
not what they had wanted. But
they 're not dwelling on it.
"When you do lose,you can't lose
the lesson," Sullivan said.
Instead, her emphasis isto learn
what aloss has to teach,then focus
on your next opponent.
That's especially true for a team
as young as the Raiders - just
four seniors and three juniors
with eight sophomores and four
freshman .
"It' s a young team so we're
learning every day, we're learn-
ing every practice , every game...
learning what works for us," said
the coach.
Take Barnstable 's 6-3 loss to
Latin Academy High School in
Boston last week. BHS led 3-0
after one period but the home
club made the Raiders pay when
they erred the rest of the way,
Sullivan said.
"We certainly were the better
team," she said. "We made some
mistakes and the other team
capitalized on them."
When Latin comes to Hyannis
Feb. 20, the Raiders will get their
chance to prove it.
"We'll see them again," Sullivan
said.
With so few upperclassmen ,
more than half are in official
leadership roles. Three of the four
captains arejuniors -goalie Nata-
lie Cohen and forwards Stephanie
Scarpato and Katie Kirwan. Se-
nior defenseman and third-year
captain Liz Cohen completes the
quartet.
Scarpato and Natalie Cohen
are lead-by-example types, while
Kirwan and Liz Cohen take a more
vocal approach , said their coach.
But the four have something more
important in common.
"They're very hard working,
all four of them," Sullivan said.
"That's their strongest trait."
An ardent believer in putting the
team first, Sullivan doesn't like to
single out individual players when
she talks about the Raiders. It's
not that she doesn't believe in her
19 players one by one - quite the
contrary.
"There 's a lot of different roles
on the team, none really more im-
portant than the others,"she said.
"Everyone has contributed and is
expected to contribute."
For Sullivan , that's not just
rhetoric. It's built into the way
the Raiders practice , the way
they play, the way they go about
being a team.
"I honestly believe that our
system is built around chemistry
and unity and working together
as a team," she said.
It' s a system geared to suc-
cess. Barnstable finished last
season a remarkable 16-4-2 in
just its second varsity season,
The Raiders collected 12 wins
and two ties before losing for
the first time.
Despite the 3-2 start , Sullivan
said, "We absolutely expect to be
in the top of (the South Eastern
Mass. Girls Hockey League South
Division) and to compete for the
title."
And the state title gameremains
the goal.
"We know we have a lot of work
to do ahead of us," Sullivan said,
"but we believe in our team and
in our system and we believe we'll
make that happen. "
Relay team ties school record as
BHS boys track posts first wins
Girls team drops
pair of decisions
By David Curran
dcurran@barnstablepatnot.com
Brian Turnbull, Nick Cantella,
Mike Burke and James Canon tied
a school record and qualified for
the state championship meet in the
4x200-meter relay to lead the BHS
boystrack teamtowinsoverMarsh-
field and Apponoquet Dec. 21.
Burke , a senior who also
won the 55-meter hurdles (8.23
seconds) and the long jump
(18 feet , 3.75 inches) , earned
team MVP honors for the meet
for "excellent performance all
around ," according to coach
Justin Messier.
Turnbull also qualified for the
state meet in the 300 meters,
and Jason Lyon qualified in the
mile.
Seniors Melissa Doherty and
Meaghen Doherty both quali-
fied in the shot put . but the girls
team remained winless on the
season.
Juniors Turnbull .Cantella and
Canon teamed with Burke to
win the 4x200 in 1:36.8. beating
the state-qualifying standard by
more than three seconds.
Lyon, asenior, won the mile in 4
minutes , 37.5 seconds, and class-
mate Greg Karukas was second
with a personal best 4:50.6. Lyon
also won the high jump (5'3" ),
with junior Will Clifford taking-
second (4'11" ).
Cantella won the 55 meters
with a personal best 7.15 seconds,
and Canon was second in 7.29.
Cantella also placed third in the
long jump (18'0.5" ).
Junior Ross Hickey won the
shot put with a 36*0.5" toss.
Turnbull 's state-meet qualify-
ing time of 38.6 seconds was only
good enough for second in the
300. Senior Martin Zampa was
third with a personal best of 39.8
seconds.
Senior Kevin Palma was second
behind Burke in the 55-meter
hurdles with a personal best of
8.94 seconds, and senior Matt
Sturgis was second in the 1.000
meters in 2.49.9.
Melissa Doherty 's31'8.75" shot
put earned her one of the Raider
girls' two first-place finishes in
the meet. Junior Chelsea Leroux
had the other with a personal
best 5:43.3 in the mile.
Meaghen Doherty's 30'9" shot
put was pood for second place ,
and senior Chantal Joseph was
second in the 300 meters with a
time of 44 seconds.
Senior Lana Tanouswas third in
the 55 meters in 8.65 seconds.
Other boys with personal bests
were senior Nathan Roberts
(5:36. 8 in the mile), sophomore
Matthew Zall (7.50 seconds in
the 55 meters ) and freshman Al-
exander Crosby (2:02.9 in the 600
meters). Among the girls, senior
Ali Bentley 's 3:58.7 in the 1.000
meters was her best ever.
Sturgis girls bounce back to beat Tech
Storm learning the
game on the job
By David Curran
dcurran@barnstablepatriot.com
Talk about rebounding.
After dropping the opener of the
Mashpee Girls Basketball Tourna-
ment to the host club 36-7 on the
day after Christmas, the Sturgis
girlsbasketball teamturnedaround
24 hours later and beat Cape Cod
Tech 38-29 in the tournament's
consolation game.
Playing without three starters
in the Mashpee game no doubt
had something to do with the
score - "I was proud of their ef-
fort," said Storm coach Jason
Cassista - but with two starters
in foul trouble early against Tech
and both fouling out early in the
second half . Sturgis ' 11-player
squad faced the challenge of
playing shorthanded for much
of that game as well.
The sixth-year coach said Mash-
pee annually has beaten his team
in the first round of the holiday
tournament , and he wasn't sure
whether that carried over to the
second day.
"We always come in fourth in
that tournament year after year,"
he said.
Not this year.
Cassista said he told his players
before the gameto try to get ahead
early so they could play with alead
rather than having to come from
behind. They did, sprinting their
way through the early going, but
then came the foul trouble and
Tech started to creep back.
Still, the Storm took a double-
digit margininto halftime. Despite
the two foul-outs after intermis-
sion, they were able to protect
the margin.
Cassista's defensive scheme
anchors the center and two for-
wards in the paint , putting heavy
responsibility for pursuing the
ball on the guards , which Chelsea
Lawson, a Sandwich junior, and
Kaylee Bosun , a freshman from
Plymouth, handled admirably.
"I think those two played the
entire game," said the coach. "I
couldn't give more credit to those
two girls."
Lawson scored 11 points , lead-
ing the team in scoring for the
first time. Plymouth sophomore
Rayven Tillman added 10.
Cassista said more than half of
his players are new to basketball ,
but Lawson, Bosun and junior Joy
Greenberg of South Yarmouth
have been able to transfer their
familiarity with each other gained
during the soccer season to the
hardwood.
"They just seemed to work
together well as if they were work-
ing the ball up the soccer field,"
he said.
Marstons Mills freshman Mia
Moulon is one of the neophytes,
but she has a natural inside pres-
ence.
"She's a good rebounder and
a force in there ," Cassista said.
Converting offensive boards into
points will come as she refines her
skills, he said.
West Barnstable freshman Julia
Caldwell is another newcomer.
"She was in the game for the
last third and played really well ,"
Cassista said.
With two starters on the bench ,
the Storm's inexperience could
have been costly "They played
within themselves and held on to
win the game," he said.
With such a young team, Cas-
sista said he doesn't have a par-
ticular number of wins he wants
the team to get.
"Aslong as I see progress, I don't
care if we win or lose." he said.
He doesn't expect to be disap-
pointed.
"This team seems to be a very
smart team ," Cassista said, with
exceptional attention to detail ,
"which I think is going to be our
greatest advant age for the second
half of the season.
"They hustle and do a great
job."
Mercedes Championships Australia's Stuart Appleby will As we begin this season its not too early to start thinking about the interesting
D fe din
¦
St rtA l b
attempt to match a mark schedule changes that the PGA Tour may be making starting with the 2007 sea-
TotaTpurse-$5^00000
V
'v:a
^
50
years
dd
when
he
son
!t
may include a points chase and playoff system and four lale-
season
events
Yards - 7411 defends his Mercedes This move is seen as a way of boosting greater viewership of events that have
_ „ Championships title lacked a star drawing card like a Tiger Woods or star players in the post-majors
I IThursday at Kapalua's tournaments A restructuring of the schedule could bring bigger-name players such
Plantation Course Appleby has won the last two Mercedes ovataking as Woods Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson into late-season events giving them a
Tiger Woods. Ernie Els and Vijay Singh last year and holding off Singh better chance to attract viewers against American football baseball and auto rac-
the year before Claiming he needed more of an off-season the No 1 ing "It's going to reward guys that are playing well." Singh said "They want some
ranked player in the world Tiger Woods lias joined fellow superstar sort of finale " The players would accumulate points durn ig the season to earn their
Phil Mickelson along with Relief Goosen and Padraig Hamngton in way into four events inAugust and September with significantly larger prize money
skipping the season opener at Kapalua Resort on Maui where Die field "There will be just as many rounds of golf in '07 as in '06 " Tourveteran Davis Love
is composed of last year's tournament winners said "We'll have just as many tournaments just a different order "
Round ! Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 t'' Thepreparationbeforeyouplay
Whk^ dubhasmhiQnest
ttaiecttxv? 3r^ A , ,, u«« ,,,»
, i ,, , ,
i i t
n "
i y / jp_, any round of goll whether it be
V-i
/
YiisT' \^< I s-? ,„ ,., .
, ,„• L ,., / \/'1 for recreation or in
a competitive
<^
K "£
*X a*X 2^
X
a
Jf 3
K
P!^9e
lT2Tqe
* ¥ sense is vital to detaining
S
^
C
VA
C
S
^
C
V^ "ILob Wedge d) Sand Wedge
U how you wtO play. With that in
Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy J
J mind here arc a few tips you
Hi 76 Lo 62 Hi 78 Lo 65 Hi 79 Lo 65 Hi 78 Lo 63 aBpa^ Oo~\ ic :ja*suv eJ^W tan
use
lo your advantage to
Un^nLT^WT^flWfn^WnTf^Ki BKyrfTTyWWB I - =*• get the best score
possible
The
UAtAtMLlJSMLiMlMMUiiiJU R I K^iUUlLL^A I first
lip
is to
gel
to
the actual golf course
t
lf$ati/rJ
j
WITH ^/
PdulGtWtt
(&> Ion (Jdnsf o
Bl l . I N N I N G |AN 14
SATURDAY
'S 8- III'M
Subscribe Today (508) 771-142 7
yMMtmrmmf e
mm
- # Happy New Year IL^
JMmidmm
%W
E
& Fro m Your
^^IBESSBBBSM
"%m?iJ Friends at B
SBp¦ Sflffl
| < ^v Holl y Rid ge
^
^J^
^
^
^
^
^ W