The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys lacrosse team had nearly a month to live with the bitter aftertaste of a lackluster 8-5 loss in Nantucket on May 15. Friday afternoon at Dan McCarthy Field in Oak Bluffs, spurred on by a big and boisterous home crowd, the Vineyarders played with a burning intensity from […]
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Vineyarders rally to sink Clippers in boys lacrosse
Gundersen leads the charge, Stearns makes 27 saves, and Meader nets four.
Ed Cherry duels with a Falmouth foe. Ralph Stewart
Martha’s Vineyard rallied from a two-goal deficit at the end of the third quarter and edged the Falmouth Clippers, 9-8, in Cape and Islands League interdivisional play, Tuesday afternoon at Dan McCarthy Field in Oak Bluffs.
The Vineyarders (3-3) trailed 4-2 at halftime, and 7-5 after three quarters, before scoring four unanswered goals to lead 9-7 late in the period. The Vineyarders played well throughout the second half, and controlled all aspects of play in the fourth quarter, holding the Clippers scoreless until the final 17 seconds. Braden Sayles gained control from the last face-off and ran out the clock to preserve the win. Hunter Meader scored what proved to be the game winner with 3:56 left in regulation, and finished with four goals for the game. Eli Gu