Last week, Geo Meikle helped carry a U.S. national team to victory in the United World Games, an Austrian tournament featuring elite student basketball teams from more than 30 countries.
On Sunday, the Vineyard boys basketball team took on Nantucket at the TD Garden as part of the Andrew James Lawson Foundation, Inc. Invitational. Nantucket won the game 67-58 but the event was bigger than the final score.
Vineyarder and former high school basketball star Erin Hill will join the Yale women’s basketball team next year, one of only four standout first-years.
The boys basketball team faces a tough home playoff test Thursday evening when they begin the 2017 playoff run against rival Bishop Stang, the defending Division 3 state champions.
The Vineyard boys basketball team remains one win away from qualifying for the state championship tournament after a hard-fought loss in double overtime to Somerset Berkley on Wednesday.